Official UK procurement notice
Soft Market Test for a NHS Health Check Support Service
Authority: Knowsley Council (Local council)
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: North West (UKD71)
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 6 Oct 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Mar 2028 · up to 31 Mar 2029 with extensions · starts 1 Apr 2026
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionKnowsley Metropolitan Borough Council is seeking to commission an experienced and high-quality service provider to provide overarching support to local GP Surgeries for the delivery of the NHS Health Check programme.
To help inform any future procurement exercise a soft market test is being undertaken. Providers are requested to go to
- www.the-chest.org ↗,
- register as a supplier
- then login
- go to find opportunities
- under portals select The Chest
- under organisations select Knowsley Borough Council
- select DN788910
- select register in this opportunity
- select To View This RFQ Event Now Click Here
- download documents
Deadline to complete and submit responses via The-Chest is no later than 12 noon on the 22nd September 2025
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Light touch regime
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 29 Aug 2025, 14:58 BST
- Last source update
- 29 Aug 2025, 14:58 BST
- Authority reference
UID13507- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-052512- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-059099Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
29 Aug 2025 → 1 Apr 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published29 Aug 2025, 14:58 BST
- Market engagement22 Sept 2025, 23:59 BST
Soft Market Test that requires suppliers to complete and submit short questionnaire and company information
- Tender notice expected389 days ago6 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts213 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published29 Aug 2025, 14:58 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