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Specialised Commissioning Acute Services Contracts (DAP A)

Buyer: NHS England →

BuyerNHS England
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published30 Apr 2026

What is being bought

Acute contracts for Specialised Commissioning Services

Delivery location

UK

Categories

Health services 85100000

Lot details

Lot 1

An award has been made following Direct Award Process A in line with the Health Care<br/>Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.<br/><br/>The services started on 1st April for a period of 1 year (with an option to extend for a further year for Oxford Fertility Limited). <br/><br/>The value of the contract is £14,228,789.<br/><br/>Following the initial period, the services will be rolled into the main acute contracts.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
No realistic alternative provider — 100

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Health services (85100000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8535,6881 median · 20.9 average (20,973 of 35,688 with a bid count)1.8 average (22,508 of 35,688 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer1051 median · 101.5 average (56 of 105 with a bid count)2.7 average (73 of 105 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UK1,9812 median · 53.1 average (736 of 1,981 with a bid count)3.9 average (928 of 1,981 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleThese contract awards are being made under the Direct Award Process A.
Rationale classificationsThe procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

039849-2026-1

Statusactive
Value£9,278,107

039849-2026-2

Statusactive
Value£697,906

039849-2026-3

Statusactive
Value£3,644,000

039849-2026-4

Statusactive
Value£1,306,682

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-068f26
Latest release ID039849-2026
Latest release timestampThu Apr 30 2026 11:28:45 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodlimited
Procurement method detailsAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release4
Contracts in latest release4
Parties in latest release6

Notice history

DateEventReference
30 Apr 2026award, contract039849-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
30 Apr 2026 · 039849-2026 · award, contract
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