Official UK procurement notice
Preliminary Market Engagement Questionnaire - Tracheostomy Tubes, Tube Holders and Accessories
Authority: Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service (Central government)
This is a Prior Information Notice to seek engagement with the market place to gather information associated with the supply and delivery of Tracheostomy Tubes, Tube Holders and Accessories. To this end the Business Services Organisation, Procurement and Logistics Service on behalf of NIHSC Trusts, wish to engage with potential suppliers to obtain a market view of the potential requirements through the completion of a Questionnaire. Any interested suppliers are required to submit their response through the eTendersNI secure messaging area of the Call for Tender (CfT) Ref:6716971. Suppliers will be required to submit their completed Questionnaire No Later than 3pm on 14th December 2026.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a Prior Information Notice to seek engagement with the market place to gather information associated with the supply and delivery of Tracheostomy Tubes, Tube Holders and Accessories. To this end the Business Services Organisation, Procurement and Logistics Service on behalf of NIHSC Trusts, wish to engage with potential suppliers to obtain a market view of the potential requirements through the completion of a Questionnaire. Any interested suppliers are required to submit their response through the eTendersNI secure messaging area of the Call for Tender (CfT) Ref:6716971. All correspondence in relation to this Preliminary Market Engagement exercise will be communicated via the eTendersNI secure messaging area. Suppliers will be required to submit their completed Questionnaire No Later than 3pm on 14th December 2026. To register on eTendersNI and access the Questionnaire, please use the following link: - etendersni.gov.uk ↗ and locate CfT Ref: 6716971. Suppliers should also note that any interest shown does not constitute a commitment to participate in any future tendering exercise.
CPV: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Regional Business Services Organisation Procurement and Logistics Service buys Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals (CPV 33), 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: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals (CPV 33) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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. Small firms win more of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 77% against 40%, n=47.
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Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Northern Ireland (authority’s region).
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 63% against 13%, n=8.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 65 days of the bid deadline.
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Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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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1 bid18% / 34%
2–324% / 26%
4–616% / 14%
7+42% / 26%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate38% / 29%
Within ±2%31% / 52%
Above estimate31% / 19%
Assess each lot i
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Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 33Published estimate£3.9m
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 33. The comparison uses that group.
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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 35 past lots.
1 bid34%
2–326%
4–614%
7+26%
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Estimates, labelled. The price range, possible competitors and earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards, not published facts, win chances or price advice. The buyer’s own record and the wider market are shown apart, never mixed.
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0, updated through the day and rebuilt nightly. Not every figure uses both feeds, and each one shows how many records it rests on: see the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
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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
- 12 Nov 2026, 11:09 GMT
- Last source update
- 12 Nov 2026, 11:09 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-107458- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07ba54Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
12 Nov 2026 → 1 May 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published2 days ago12 Nov 2026, 11:09 GMT
- Today15 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 29 days14 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
This is a Prior Information Notice to seek engagement with the market place to gather information associated with the supply and delivery of Tracheostomy Tubes, Tube Holders and Accessories. To this end the Business Services Organisation, Procurement and Logistics Service on behalf of NIHSC Trusts, wish to engage with potential suppliers to obtain a market view of the potential requirements through the completion of a Questionnaire. Any interested suppliers are required to submit their response through the eTendersNI secure messaging area of the Call for Tender (CfT) Ref:6716971. All correspondence in relation to this Preliminary Market Engagement exercise will be communicated via the eTendersNI secure messaging area. Suppliers will be required to submit their completed Questionnaire No Later than 3pm on 14th December 2026. To register on eTendersNI and access the Questionnaire, please use the following link: - etendersni.gov.uk ↗ and locate CfT Ref: 6716971. Suppliers should also note that any interest shown does not constitute a commitment to participate in any future tendering exercise.
- Contract startsin 166 days1 May 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published12 Nov 2026, 11:09 GMTUK2
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