Official UK procurement notice
Primary Care Stop Smoking Services
Authority: South Tyneside Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe service is to provide universal stop smoking services in the borough of South Tyneside through GP practices and community pharmacies.
Providers will work in partnership with South Tyneside Council, specialist services and the NHS in a whole system approach focused on:
- Delivering timely, evidence-based, personalised, proactive and fair stop smoking services in South Tyneside.
- Providing high quality, person-centred and compassionate behavioural support which supports individuals to quit smoking & restart quit attempts after relapses.
- Offering access to evidence-based pharmacotherapies / nicotine containing products, focusing on the most effective and popular options.
- Delivering targeted and more intensive support using outreach methods to priority population groups.
- Promoting prevention, early intervention, harm reduction, and making every contact count (MECC) principles.
- Developing local strategies to reduce smoking prevalence, tackle smoking related health inequalities and strengthen health promotion communications on smoking.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1South Tyneside Council is inviting GP practices and community pharmacies based in the…Published value£736,002
South Tyneside Council is inviting GP practices and community pharmacies based in the borough of South Tyneside to deliver universal stop smoking services in the borough. Contracts will be awarded to any and all GP practice or community pharmacy who can demonstrate they can deliver the service specification.
Contracts will be awarded via the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 Direct Award Process B. Additional information: the initial contract will expire 30 October 2029, with the option to extend by 2 x 1 year periods.
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How this buyer will score bids.
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No conditions of participation were published on the notice; check the tender documents.
- Shortlisting
- Any GP practice or community pharmacy with the capacity and capability to provide the service specification may apply to be awarded a contract under PSR23 Direct Award Process B
- Turnover usually expected at this size: about £294,401 (twice the annual value).
Turnover is an indicative market norm (≈2× annual value), not a published condition.
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How South Tyneside Council buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
South Tyneside Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Health services (CPV 8510) →
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How often local firms win similar work.
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in North East England.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
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Half of these awards were announced within 76 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid14% / 24%
2–343% / 45%
4–629% / 18%
7+14% / 13%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Below estimate20% / 40%
Within ±2%60% / 52%
Above estimate20% / 8%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1South Tyneside Council is inviting GP practices and community pharmacies based in the…CPV 8510Published estimate£736k
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1 bid39%
2–336%
4–623%
7+3%
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Where the award price may land.
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Based on 20 comparable awards. Each lot reflects its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative.
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Middle 50%£722k–£736k
Estimate£736k
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| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustWorked for this buyer | Integrated Sexual Health Servicenotice published May 2024 | — | — | Similar wording and category |
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £173m17 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 2 live · £2 iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=2 | |
| £40m22 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 5 live · £6.7m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=16 | |
| £43m10 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 1 live · £478k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=4 | |
| £2.6m8 awards in 36m · last 1 months ago | 2 live · £1.0m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=3 | |
| £1.4m9 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 2 live · £567k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=1 |
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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Open for tender
- 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
- 27 Sept 2024, 08:41 BST
- Last source update
- 27 Sept 2024, 08:41 BST
- Authority reference
S8572- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-030891- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04a35fFind a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice- Requests to participate (first stage)
- —
- Tender submission deadline
- 1 Sept 2029, 17:00 BST
- Clarification deadline
- —
- Submission channel
- {"written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
27 Sept 2024 → 1 Sept 2029 · 3 dates- Notice published27 Sept 2024, 08:41 BST
- Contract starts1 Nov 2024
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Submission deadline1 Sept 2029, 17:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Process and specification contact points (1)
- Public Health Team, South Tyneside CouncilProcess contact point
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.