Official UK procurement notice
Provision of Occupational Health Services
Authority: Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Trust requires a minimum of two Occupational Health Physicians/Providers for a 3- year term from the 1st January 2027 with a 2-year extension option.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1This contract is for the provision of Occupational Health Services at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Health Work & Wellbeing Department
- Variant bids
- not allowed
Competition analysis · published record, not a forecast of who will bid
How Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust buys Health services (CPV 8510) — and who usually turns up
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust’s own published record, next to the North West England 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) →
How the contest usually goes
Left: this authority. Right: the market where the work is delivered. Bids and award-vs-estimate pairs are per lot, from contested contracts only — direct awards (including PA 2023 transparency notices) report one bid by definition and are left out. On Procurement Act 2023 notices the count is the tenders assessed at the final stage, not every submission received; pairs compare like with like (VAT-exclusive, or VAT-inclusive on both sides). Empty means nothing was published, not filled in from elsewhere.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
contract notices in 36 months: 4 in CPV 8510 (3 without competition) · 21 in division 85 (18 without competition · 1 route not published) · 35 in all categories (20 without competition · 4 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 lots. 1 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 2) and 3 from older notices (bids received, middle 2).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 4 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this industry (CPV 85), last 36 months: 1 pairs. Small sample.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 36 months: 1 notices. Small sample.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How often this buyer changes a notice after publishing it.
Middle number of amendments per notice. Deadline extensions and corrections both count.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in all categories, last 24 months: 198 notices.
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How often this buyer awards without a competition.
Direct or limited awards as a share of its notices that say which procedure was used. These routes are legal in defined cases. This is just the record.
Based on this buyer’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8510), last 36 months: 4 notices.
North West England · Health services (CPV 8510)
contract notices delivered in North West England in 36 months: 1,027 in CPV 8510 (141 competed, 60 route not published) · 2,338 in division 85 (661 competed, 284 route not published)
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How many companies usually bid for work like this.
Middle value of published bid counts, one per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8510), last 36 months: 102 lots. 29 lots are from Procurement Act 2023 notices (bids assessed, middle 5) and 73 from older notices (bids received, middle 3).
Nothing is filled in from UK-wide numbers. An empty tile means nothing usable was published.
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How often only one company bid.
Share of lots that received exactly one bid, on the same competitions as the bids figure.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8510), last 36 months: 102 lots.
High means a thin market or an incumbent that is hard to beat.
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Do awards for work like this land above or below the estimate.
Estimate against award per lot, for this buyer or this region in the same sector.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8510), last 36 months: 51 pairs.
A past pattern, not a price to bid.
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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.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8510), last 36 months: 24 notices.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
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How much of this market goes to small and medium firms.
SME bidders where buyers published the split, otherwise SME winners.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8510), last 36 months: 54 lots.
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How much work like this goes to companies based in the delivery region.
Awards in this category delivered here where the winner’s registered address is in the region.
Based on this region’s tenders in this sector (CPV 8510), last 36 months: 2,344 awards.
Registered address, so a national firm with a local branch counts as outside.
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Where this tender’s estimate would land if the usual pattern repeats.
We apply the buyer’s usual movement between estimate and award (or the region’s) to the estimate on this notice.
Based on the North West England market’s usual movement over 51 lots (CPV 8510), applied to the £1,404,000 estimate on this notice. The range comes from the region’s middle half.
A benchmark, not a price to bid.
Coverage and what to read with care
- Each tile explains itself. The on a figure says what it is, how it is counted and which scope this notice’s own record came from (class, division, all categories, or the authority’s 24-month row). The two columns are never blended and nothing is filled from a UK-wide figure; an empty tile means the source published nothing usable. Long form: Methodology.
- Coverage. Roughly 40 % of notices publish a bid count; about half publish an ITL1 delivery location, so the market column reads the authority’s registered region when the notice has none (labelled). About 30 % of award-vs-estimate pairs are exact matches — the buyer published the award at the estimate. n is on every figure; a thin sample is muted, never hidden.
- “Match” and “relevance” are model scores from the nightly matcher, not published facts. Find a Tender does not publish who is bidding. Never shown: contact details, payment behaviour, or a recommended price.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- 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
- Yes
- First published
- 1 Oct 2026, 10:52 BST
- Last source update
- 1 Oct 2026, 10:52 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT — …
- Authority reference
C459273- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077e5a
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address. The Key Criteria and corresponding Weightings against which Tender Responses are assessed is as follows: Integration, collaboration and service sustainability - 36% Improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice - 6% Quality and Innovation - 18% Social Value - 10% Value - 30%
How to participate & submission route
Submit via Atamis (Health Family)Tender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗
- Expression of interest (EOI)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 30 Oct 2026, 00:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
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- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 90 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
Timeline
4 published dates · Europe/London- Notice publishedearlier today1 Oct 2026, 10:52 BST
- Submission deadlinein 29 days30 Oct 2026, 00:00 GMT
- Bids openedin 30 days31 Oct 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 92 days1 Jan 2027, 00:00 GMT
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
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.