Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 17 Nov 2025, 14:10 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

Provision of Exercise on Referral and Tier 2 Weight Management service

Authority: London Borough of Redbridge (Local council)

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitableVCSE suitable
Planned pipeline value£1pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 5 Jan 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrs 1 moends 1 May 2029 · up to 2 Jun 2030 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

A contract for the provision of Exercise on Referral and Weight Management within LB Redbridge has been in place for several years. The Authority is looking for a Provider to undertake a variety of Weight Management services for the Community within the Borough.

CPV: Recreational, cultural and sporting services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrs 1 moSMEVCSE
Contract period: 1 Apr 2026 – 1 May 2029 (3 yrs 1 mo) · up to 2 Jun 2030 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligibleVCSE eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How London Borough of Redbridge buys Recreational, cultural and sporting (CPV 92), and who usually turns up

London Borough of Redbridge’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: Recreational, cultural and sporting (CPV 92) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerLondon Borough of Redbridge · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 2 of 11 known-size awards · market: division 92 · UK-wide, n=397
18%63%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 of 8 known-location awards · market: division 92 · UK-wide, n=454
63%57%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: division 92 · UK-wide, n=95
—35 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 35 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 7 of 16 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 92 · UK-wide, n=633
44%42%

Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer5 lots with bid counts · all categories
0% had one bid
The market154 lots with bid counts · division 92 · UK-wide
14% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid0% / 14%
Buyer: 0 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 22 of 154 lots with published bid counts.
2–320% / 44%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 67 of 154 lots with published bid counts.
4–620% / 31%
Buyer: 1 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 48 of 154 lots with published bid counts.
7+60% / 11%
Buyer: 3 of 5 lots with published bid counts. Market: 17 of 154 lots with published bid counts.

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer7 lots with estimate and award · all categories
100% below estimate
The market128 lots with estimate and award · division 92 · UK-wide
39% below estimate
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate100% / 39%
Buyer: 7 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 50 of 128 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%0% / 45%
Buyer: 0 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 58 of 128 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate0% / 16%
Buyer: 0 of 7 lots with an estimate and award. Market: 20 of 128 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 9237 monthsSME suitableNo real estimate

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 92. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
i

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 154 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet14% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 154 similar lots
1 bid14%
22 of 154 similar past lots received 1 bid (14%).
2–344%
67 of 154 similar past lots received 2–3 (44%).
4–631%
48 of 154 similar past lots received 4–6 (31%).
7+11%
17 of 154 similar past lots received 7+ (11%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 3 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No real estimate
The buyer published £1 as the estimate (a placeholder, not the contract’s value), so there is nothing to forecast against.

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.

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.

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
Services
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Above threshold (FTS publication)
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
17 Nov 2025, 14:10 GMT
Last source update
17 Nov 2025, 14:10 GMT
Authority reference
DN796777
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-074416
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Recreational, cultural and sporting services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05e285 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

17 Nov 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published345 days ago
    17 Nov 2025, 14:10 GMT
  2. Market engagement317 days ago
    15 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT

    A contract for the provision of Exercise on Referral and Weight Management within LB Redbridge has been in place for several years. The provider had been commissioned to undertake a variety of services for the Community in the Borough

    Aims and Objectives of the Service

    • The Provider shall work within the general aims, objectives and scope of the Service detailed in this Specification or otherwise notified to the Provider during the Contract Period. However, the Provider shall work flexibly to ensure the aims and objectives of the Service are achieved.
    • The Provider shall provide the Service in a manner that allows Service Users to live independently with any risk, either to themselves or others, minimised through assessment, management and support.
    • The Provider shall be capable of working with people with a varying level and variety of needs.
    • The Provider’s staff shall have the necessary knowledge, skills and experience of working with community organisations.
    • The Provider shall promote and demonstrate the benefits of physical activity to patients suffering from a range of physical and mental health conditions, i.e. obesity, high blood pressure, mild to moderate depression etc. and those who are not currently active.
    • The Service seeks to provide a range of exercise options in leisure centres for priority groups of low to medium risk clients, (including Phase 4 Cardiac Rehab), to develop the confidence, skills and motivation they need to become and remain physically active by:
    • Offering individuals with a range of medical conditions the opportunity to increase physical activity in order to improve their health and wellbeing.
    • Developing the confidence, skills, and motivation they need to become and remain physically active; and
    • Providing Phase 4 Cardiac Rehab for cardiac patients who are deemed to be low/medium risk and meet British Association for Cardiac Rehabilitation (“BACR”) risk stratification criteria
  3. Tender notice expected296 days ago
    5 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts211 days ago
    1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    17 Nov 2025, 14:10 GMT
    UK2

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

London Borough of Redbridge

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PPZX-9247-ZGQQ 7th Floor, Lynton House, Ilford, London, IG1 1NNContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure