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BuyerSHERWOOD FOREST HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
StatusClosed
Deadline19 Sept 2025
Value£100,000
Published11 Sept 2025

What is being bought

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides acute healthcare services to a population of around 420,000 across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark, Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. The Trust operates across three main hospital sites: King's Mill Hospital, Newark Hospital, and Mansfield Community Hospital. Our vision is to deliver outstanding care to our patients and communities. We consistently strive to improve the efficiency and quality of services while ensuring value for money in all areas of procurement. As part of this approach, the Trust is conducting a Low Value Procurement Activity (LVPA) to secure competitive printing solutions across various departments.

Delivery location

UK, GB · UK, GB · UK, GB

Categories

Printed matter and related products 22000000

Lot details

Volume-Based Printing

Please see attached LVPA.

Statusactive
Value£70,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Oct 2025 to 30 Sept 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Colour / Ad-hoc Printing

Please see attached LVPA

Statusactive
Value£20,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Oct 2025 to 30 Sept 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

Lanyards, Promotional & Advertising

Please see the attached document for reference.

Statusactive
Value£10,000
Contract periodFrom 1 Oct 2025 to 30 Sept 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Printed matter and related productsNot published
2Printed matter and related productsNot published
3Printed matter and related productsNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 22. The category anchor is Printed matter and related products (22000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 222043 median · 11.2 average (50 of 204 with a bid count)3.1 average (54 of 204 with named award suppliers)Not published
Same buyer0Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Delivery region: UK586 median · 21.9 average (8 of 58 with a bid count)6.7 average (9 of 58 with named award suppliers)Not published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)35Not publishedNot publishedNot published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementYes
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policynotAllowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-059886
Latest release ID055776-2025
Latest release timestampThu Sep 11 2025 11:06:48 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLhttps://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/055776-2025
Tender statusactive
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsBelow threshold - open competition
Main procurement categorygoods
Above thresholdNo
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2025-09-19T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2025-09-17T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsAll request for tender document should be to arjun.ravisankar@nhs.net by 12:00 on the 17th of September 2025.
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£100,000
Tender lots in source3
Tender items in source3
Tender documents in source1
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
11 Sept 2025tender055776-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
11 Sept 2025 · 055776-2025 · tender
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