Official UK procurement notice
SEL GMS Clinical Cover ToPL Lambeth
Authority: NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Authority (NHS SEL Integrated Care Board) hereby gives notice of its intention to award a contract in accordance with the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) using the Most Suitable Provider (MSP) award route.
Under the MSP route, the Authority is not required to run a competitive procurement. This notice is published to meet the Authority's statutory transparency obligations under the PSR and to allow providers the opportunity to submit an expression of interest in accordance with the MSP process.
Any provider submitting an expression of interest must be able to clearly and objectively demonstrate that it meets the strict eligibility and suitability criteria set out in the PSR, including the ability to deliver the services in line with statutory, clinical, quality, value, and integration requirements. Expressions of interest that do not meet this statutory threshold will not be considered.
In accordance with the PSR requirements for the MSP route, the Authority is allowing a 14-calendar-day period from the date of publication of this notice for providers to submit an expression of interest.. The Authority is under no obligation to consider expressions of interest received after the close of the 14-day period, or submissions that are incomplete, non-compliant, or otherwise fail to meet the requirements for consideration under the MSP route.
If, following the close of the notice period, more than one provider submits a compliant expression of interest demonstrating the capability to deliver the services, the Authority reserves the right to seek further information and to undertake an assessment in accordance with the PSR to determine the most suitable provider.
Further information, including any indicative timelines or engagement activity the Authority considers appropriate, will be communicated at the Authority's discretion.
Providers wishing to submit an expression of interest or make an enquiry should contact [email protected], quoting reference 'PRJ2245 MSP'.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Lambeth Protected Learning Time (PLT) Service is to provide GMS Essential Services…Planned
Lambeth Protected Learning Time (PLT) Service is to provide GMS Essential Services during PLT cover for Lambeth General Practice.
The service is to be available on All Practice and Primary Care Network (PCN) PLT dates between 12:30 - 6:30 pm during protected learning time for either:
a) PCN PLT session (3 PCNs at each PLT), which equates to approximately 140,000 patient population, or
b) single PLT session for All Practice PLT, which covers the Lambeth patient population of circa 425,000 patients.
The service provider is required to provide face-to-face GP appointments, remote GP appointments and additional capacity at the Enhanced Access Hubs.
In addition, a full Home Visiting Service during these hours for each PLT session where clinically appropriate.
The service is to provide additional reception and administration cover to handle calls and back-office functions during the PLT.
The service is to have retainer GPs on hand as contingency, to ensure it can step up provision if this is required.
The service must provide relevant appointment types currently available at the patients registered practice.
This will include GP appointments for:
- telephone/video consultations with additional provision
- for face-to-face appointments.
- Home visiting to be available for housebound patients and for those not able to attend their appointment in the hub setting. These appointments should be triaged in the first instance by a GP and once assessed passed through for a home visit.
The service must have administrators/receptionists available on these afternoons to book the patients into the additional appointments, email discharge summaries to the patients registered GP and cover any other back-office support.
The receptionists to be available to take calls from 12:30pm with GP telephone triage sessions starting from 13:00 and finish at 18:30.
The provider team to have access to the current Hub version of EMIS -and be provided with additional login details, so they can use EMIS writeback.
The service is to ensure that every consultation is recorded in real time on the patients' clinical record and can be reviewed by their registered GP instantaneously.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS North East London Integrated Care Board buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
NHS North East London Integrated Care Board’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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
How the contest usually goes
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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 Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 79% against 60%, n=187.
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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 86 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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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid24% / 27%
2–333% / 33%
4–621% / 24%
7+21% / 17%
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 estimate12% / 36%
Within ±2%84% / 56%
Above estimate4% / 8%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
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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 #1Lambeth Protected Learning Time (PLT) Service is to provide GMS Essential Services…Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 344 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid27%
2–333%
4–624%
7+17%
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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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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.
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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.
- 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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Feb 2026, 13:20 GMT
- Last source update
- 16 Feb 2026, 13:20 GMT
- Authority reference
PRJ2245- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-013845- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0654e4Find a Tender
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach 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 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
16 Feb 2026 → 1 Jun 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published248 days ago16 Feb 2026, 13:20 GMT
- Tender notice expected144 days ago1 Jun 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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