Official UK procurement notice
Real-Time Location System Preliminary Market Engagement
Authority: Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionReal-Time Location System (RTLS)
Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) intends to undertake a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise in relation to a potential requirement for a Real-Time Location System (RTLS).
Purpose of the Market Engagement
The purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement is to:
- provide interested suppliers with an overview of the Trust's high-level requirements;
- understand the solutions, technologies and capabilities currently available in the market;
- obtain supplier feedback and market insight to help inform the Trust's requirements; and
- support the Trust in considering its potential future procurement strategy and approach.
The Trust is interested in engaging with suppliers that provide Real-Time Location System (RTLS) solutions, sometimes referred to as Real-Time Tracking Systems.
RTLS technology can be used to automatically identify and track the location of assets, equipment, inventory and, where appropriate, people in real time. Through this engagement, the Trust wishes to develop its understanding of available solutions and how these may support its operational requirements.
Supplier Market Engagement Webinar:
As part of the Preliminary Market Engagement exercise, the Trust intends to hold a virtual supplier engagement webinar as follows:
Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location: Microsoft Teams
Suppliers wishing to participate should email the Trust and provide:
- the name of their organisation;
- the names of up to two (2) representatives who will attend; and
- the email address of each nominated representative.
Following registration, the Microsoft Teams invitation will be issued directly to the nominated representatives.
About Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the UK. The Trust has a budget of approximately £1.7 billion, employs more than 25,000 staff, and treated more than 1.7 million patients last year.
The Trust's hospital sites include:
- Leeds General Infirmary (LGI), including Leeds Children's Hospital and Leeds Dental Institute;
- St James's University Hospital (SJUH), including Leeds Cancer Centre;
- Seacroft Hospital;
- Wharfedale Hospital; and
- Chapel Allerton Hospital.
Important Information
This notice relates to Preliminary Market Engagement only and does not constitute the commencement of a formal procurement or competitive tendering process.
Participation or non-participation in this market engagement will not, in itself, confer any advantage or disadvantage on any supplier in relation to any potential future procurement exercise.
The Trust is not committed to commencing a procurement process following this engagement. Any future procurement opportunity will be subject to the Trust's governance requirements and the applicable procurement rules.
CPV: Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust’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: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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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.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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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.
Here, local means registered in Yorkshire and the Humber (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Yorkshire and the Humber.
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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 49 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 market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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.
1 bid40% / 11%
2–320% / 30%
4–620% / 30%
7+20% / 30%
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 estimate60%
Within ±2%30%
Above estimate10%
Assess each lot i
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.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1Published estimate£500k
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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 27 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid11%
2–330%
4–630%
7+30%
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
- 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
- Goods
- 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
- 19 Oct 2026, 10:21 BST
- Last source update
- 19 Oct 2026, 10:21 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-098325- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078a6fFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
19 Oct 2026 → 19 Oct 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published2 days ago19 Oct 2026, 10:21 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 20 days10 Nov 2026, 23:59 GMT
Real-Time Location System (RTLS)
Preliminary Market Engagement Notice
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT) intends to undertake a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise in relation to a potential requirement for a Real-Time Location System (RTLS).
Purpose of the Market Engagement
The purpose of this Preliminary Market Engagement is to:
- provide interested suppliers with an overview of the Trust's high-level requirements;
- understand the solutions, technologies and capabilities currently available in the market;
- obtain supplier feedback and market insight to help inform the Trust's requirements; and
- support the Trust in considering its potential future procurement strategy and approach.
The Trust is interested in engaging with suppliers that provide Real-Time Location System (RTLS) solutions, sometimes referred to as Real-Time Tracking Systems.
RTLS technology can be used to automatically identify and track the location of assets, equipment, inventory and, where appropriate, people in real time. Through this engagement, the Trust wishes to develop its understanding of available solutions and how these may support its operational requirements.
Supplier Market Engagement Webinar
As part of the Preliminary Market Engagement exercise, the Trust intends to hold a virtual supplier engagement webinar as follows:
Date: Wednesday, 11 November 2026
Time: 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Location: Microsoft Teams
Suppliers wishing to participate should email the Trust and provide:
- the name of their organisation;
- the names of up to two (2) representatives who will attend; and
- the email address of each nominated representative.
Following registration, the Microsoft Teams invitation will be issued directly to the nominated representatives.
About Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest and busiest acute hospital trusts in the UK. The Trust has a budget of approximately £1.7 billion, employs more than 25,000 staff, and treated more than 1.7 million patients last year.
The Trust's hospital sites include:
- Leeds General Infirmary (LGI), including Leeds Children's Hospital and Leeds Dental Institute;
- St James's University Hospital (SJUH), including Leeds Cancer Centre;
- Seacroft Hospital;
- Wharfedale Hospital; and
- Chapel Allerton Hospital.
Important Information
This notice relates to Preliminary Market Engagement only and does not constitute the commencement of a formal procurement or competitive tendering process.
Participation or non-participation in this market engagement will not, in itself, confer any advantage or disadvantage on any supplier in relation to any potential future procurement exercise.
The Trust is not committed to commencing a procurement process following this engagement. Any future procurement opportunity will be subject to the Trust's governance requirements and the applicable procurement rules.
In addition, you can e-mail your representatives e-mail to [email protected] if interested in the preliminary market engagement webinar.
- Tender notice expectedin 149 days19 Mar 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 362 days19 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published19 Oct 2026, 10:21 BSTUK2
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
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