Official UK procurement notice
Request for Information for Surrey County Council Workforce Healthcare Benefit
Authority: Surrey County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSCC is committed to supporting a healthy, resilient workforce, aligned to the "Surrey Way", ensuring that no one is left behind. This includes critical frontline services such as SFRS, where staff operate in physically and mentally demanding environments and require timely access to healthcare support to remain fit for duty.
SFRS employ approximately 800 staff, including around 500 operational firefighters plus 50 control room staff, delivering services across a population of over 1 million residents in Surrey. This scale of workforce, combined with the physically and mentally demanding nature of firefighting roles, reinforces the need for accessible and timely healthcare support to maintain operational capacity and resilience. The workforce requires flexible and accessible healthcare provision to support different working patterns.
The Council is seeking to explore a Workforce Healthcare Benefit that is tailored to the needs of its firefighter workforce. The proposed service is intended to support SFRS employees, with a primary focus on operational firefighters, and the Council is looking for a provider to deliver the following outcomes:
- Support staff to remain fit for operational duties, particularly in physically demanding roles
- Enable early access to healthcare, reducing delays in diagnosis and treatment
- Improve return-to-work times and reduce reliance on long-term absence
- Provide targeted support for physical and mental health needs, recognising the demands placed on frontline roles
- Enhance overall staff wellbeing, morale, and retention
- Deliver a solution that is accessible, flexible, and easy to use, including a mix of in-person and remote access, to meet the needs of a diverse and operational workforce, including both wholetime and retained firefighters
- Demonstrate measurable and reportable improvements, with clear evidence of outcomes resulting from service delivery and intervention
The Council is particularly interested in solutions that recognise the specific needs of emergency service personnel, including rapid access pathways and support aligned to fitness-for-work requirements.
CPV: Company health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Surrey County Council buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
Surrey County Council’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: Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in South East England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 61 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.
Both shares are minimums: 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 bid0% / 18%
2–367% / 32%
4–633% / 41%
7+0% / 9%
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 estimate14% / 35%
Within ±2%14% / 59%
Above estimate71% / 6%
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 #1CPV 8514Estimate not published
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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 22 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–332%
4–641%
7+9%
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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
- 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 Jun 2026, 16:30 BST
- Last source update
- 17 Jun 2026, 16:30 BST
- Authority reference
RFX1000880- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-057300- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06b76eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
17 Jun 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published133 days ago17 Jun 2026, 16:30 BST
- Market engagement120 days ago29 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
Surrey County Council would like to notify you of an upcoming requirement and is seeking to understand the market's capability and appetite to support this initiative.
This Request for Information (RFI) seeks information relating to the Council's Workforce Healthcare Benefit offer, with a particular focus on supporting Surrey Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) firefighters and control room staff.
The aim is to enhance staff wellbeing, improve access to timely healthcare services, and ensure employees, particularly those operating in physically and mentally demanding roles, are supported to remain fit for duty and operationally ready.
Please note this is a Request for Information only and it is not a call for competition. SCC will subsequently inform the market if and/or when it is intended to go out to tender.
The RFI will be published through the e-tendering platform Proactis. Suppliers who wish to respond to the RFI must do so using Proactis: supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login ↗
Please note the following project name and reference number allocated to this RFI within the e-Sourcing Portal:
Project Name: SCC WT Surrey County Council Workforce Healthcare Benefit Request for Information
Project Reference: RFX1000880
Please download the ' Surrey County Council Workforce Healthcare Benefit Request for Information' document and complete with the required detail.
The document which can be found in the 'Documents' section. The completed document can then be submitted through the 'Dialogue' section.
Please be assured that all information shared within this document will be treated as confidential and commercially sensitive information.
If you require any further clarification on a question or any content of this document, please send us a direct message via the portal's messaging function.
The deadline for this Request for Information is Monday 29th June 2026 at 12:00pm (midday).
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 33 days1 Dec 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published17 Jun 2026, 16:30 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