Official UK procurement notice
Provision of medical aid insurance at British Embassy Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo.
Authority: Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Service Provider will be required to provide medical cover to members of staff and their dependents registered under the policy to an identified appropriate ceiling and premium per family.
CPV: Health insurance services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office buys Insurance services (CPV 6651): the notice lists a non-UK location
Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office’s published record is shown without a UK market comparison because the notice lists a non-UK delivery location. Check the notice description and tender documents for the actual site. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Insurance services (CPV 6651) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
The notice lists delivery in Congo - Kinshasa, so this procedure has no confirmed single UK region; the buyer’s figure reads its other awards, each against its own delivery region.
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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.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 62 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.
The buyer’s share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
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Missing bid counts may hide more single-bid awards. This share is a minimum.
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid28%
2–341%
4–628%
7+3%
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 estimate0%
Within ±2%60%
Above estimate40%
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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.
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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.
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Lot #1Published estimate£781k
This lot lists only non-UK delivery addresses. Supplier examples below come from UK award history and are not checked for this delivery area.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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This lot has only non-UK delivery countries in its published addresses, so the UK model forecast is withheld.
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Pactilis RDCLive contract | Provision of Medical Aid Insurance for British Embassy Kinshasa, DRCruns to Jan 2027 | — | — | Matched as the earlier contract |
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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.
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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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
65% title match.
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.
65% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (65% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Provision of Medical Aid Insurance for British Embassy Kinshasa, DRC — held by Pactilis RDC; the published contract ends 31 Jan 2027.
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
- 15 Apr 2026, 12:14 BST
- Last source update
- 15 Apr 2026, 12:14 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-034153- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area in notice
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0682e8Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
15 Apr 2026 → 4 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published190 days ago15 Apr 2026, 12:14 BST
- Market engagement176 days ago29 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
The Authority wishes to undertake Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) in a proportionate and transparent manner to help refine the upcoming procurement for Medical Aid Insurance for the British Embassy Kinshasa.
The purpose of this engagement is to gather market insight, test deliverability of the draft requirements, and ensure the specification, KPIs, Conditions of Participation, and commercial approach are suitable, realistic, and attractive to the market.
The PME aims to:
Understand medical insurance capabilities for Kinshasa based employee populations (benefit design advisory, market testing, placements with insurers/medical schemes, renewal strategy).
Validate compliance, governance and data protection approaches (including handling of personal/health data and local regulatory requirements).
Test approaches to member servicing (onboarding, helpdesk, claims escalation), provider network stewardship, and reporting/analytics.
This engagement is conducted under PA23 s.16 to help prepare the procurement and will be managed to avoid unfair advantage or distortion of competition.
Registration Instructions
Register on portal → Express Interest → Download Pack → Submit questionnaire by deadline.
Disclaimer
This engagement is not a call for competition. Participation is optional, not evaluated, and does not affect eligibility to bid. Participation will not affect the ability of suppliers to compete in any future procurement.
PME Questionnaire Pack
Suppliers are requested to answer the following questions:
- Organisation legal name, registration number, and Kinshasa presence.
- Medical aid insurance licence details:
- Evidence of registration with relevant regulatory and professional bodies.
- Provide relevant details (names, telephone numbers, email addresses) of key contacts including the physical address of organization’s head office and zonal offices.
- Any other relevant information that could enhance the organization’s eligibility.
- Provide details of systems and procedures that are in place in your organisation to ensure confidentiality and data protection. How do you meet any local legal requirements related to data handling and health care confidentiality.
- Experience delivering medical aid insurance services in Kinshasa.
- Service delivery model for member support and renewals.
- Data protection and information security controls.
- Costing model transparency (non-binding).
- Operational risks and market constraints.
- Conflicts of interest declaration.
- Tender notice expected150 days ago25 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 73 days4 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published15 Apr 2026, 12:14 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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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