Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement For Medical Fridges, Freezers and Associated Equipment
Authority: Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionBusiness Services Organisation (BSO), Procurement and Logistics Service (PaLS) on behalf of the Health and Social Care NI (HSCNI) wish to seek engagement with the marketplace to ascertain the markets capabilities in respect of the supply of Medical Fridges, Freezers and Associated Equipment. Any interested parties are requested to submit their completed questionnaire through the secure messaging area of the eTendersNI CfT.
CPV: Blood-transfusion supplies · Freezers · Industrial freezers · Laboratory, optical and precision equipments (excl. glasses) · Medical equipments · Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products · Miscellaneous medical devices and products · Refrigerator-freezers · Refrigerators · Refrigerators and freezers
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service buys Electrical domestic appliances (CPV 3971), and who usually turns up
Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Electrical domestic appliances (CPV 3971) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 52 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid0% / 0%
2–314% / 0%
4–657% / 93%
7+29% / 7%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate38% / 25%
Within ±2%38% / 63%
Above estimate24% / 13%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 3971Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 14 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid0%
2–30%
4–693%
7+7%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 Aug 2026, 15:13 BST
- Last source update
- 26 Aug 2026, 15:13 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-081430- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ece0Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
26 Aug 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published60 days ago26 Aug 2026, 15:13 BST
- Market engagement39 days ago16 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
This is a prior information notice to seek engagement with the market place to gather information associated with the supply and delivery of Medical Fridges, Freezers and Associated Equipment.
What you need to do now:
- If you are not registered on eTendersNI, please do so as soon as possible.
- Those interested in participating in such preliminary market engagement should access the 'Preliminary Market Engagement for Medical Fridges, Freezers and Associated Equipment.’ via eTendersNI (etendersni.gov.uk/epps/home.do ↗) at their earliest convenience, by searching for Resource ID / CfT Reference Number 6437460.
A copy of the following documents has been included within the CfT documents area of this advertisement:
(a) CP13 Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire Explanatory Document
(b) CP12 Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire
All completed responses must be submitted via the secure eTendersNI messaging area of the CfT on eTendersNI no later than 15:00, Wednesday 16th September 2026. Please note that with reference to the information containing estimated date of publication of contract notice - this is only an anticipated date and subject to change.
Further Information: The overall purpose of this questionnaire is to engage with prospective suppliers and gain further knowledge and understanding of the market landscape. Suppliers should note that any interest shown in this Preliminary Market Engagement exercise does not constitute a commitment to participate in any future tendering exercise.
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 157 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Aug 2026, 15:13 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender