Official UK procurement notice
Supply of Community Equipment
Authority: Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSupply of a wide range of daily living aids and equipment, including bathing, beds, mattresses, toileting, chairs, pressure care and moving and handling devices to the Council's Joint Equipment Stores located in Sandwell.
Please note that this is a UK1 Pipeline Notice. This is not a PIN or call for pre-market engagement/competition. As this is a pipeline notice, there is no guarantee that a tender opportunity will result from this notice. Should a tender opportunity materialise, further notices will be published.
The information in this UK1 Pipeline Notice is purely for information, and no further details are available at this stage. Please do not contact the contracting authority regarding this UK1 Pipeline Notice. Further details will be provided in a future tender notice if the opportunity progresses.
(PLEASE NOTE THIS IS NOT A LIVE TENDER OPPORTUNITY)
CPV: Health and social work services · Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals and personal care products · Other community, social and personal services
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 1 Mar 2028
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Supply of Community Equipment” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council buys Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals (CPV 33), and who usually turns up
Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Medical equipments, pharmaceuticals (CPV 33) →
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 the winner is registered in the region where that contract was delivered.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in West Midlands.
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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 44 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 bid13% / 9%
2–310% / 30%
4–648% / 25%
7+29% / 36%
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.
On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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£7.2m
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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 64 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–330%
4–625%
7+36%
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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
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 22 May 2025, 09:54 BST
- Last source update
- 26 May 2026, 10:59 BST
- Authority reference
ASC148- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-048520- Latest notice
- Pipeline notice (UK1)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
22 May 2025 → 1 Mar 2028 · 5 dates- Planning notice published22 May 2025, 09:54 BST
- Market engagement260 days ago2 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
The Council has issued this preliminary market engagement notice in order to seek expressions of interest whilst also exploring market feedback on specific aspects via a questionnaire. This will assist in identifying critical success factors, new approaches and potential barriers to delivery, all of which shall be considered as part of the procurement strategy for any subsequent procurement process.
To request the Preliminary Market Engagement document which includes a link to the online questionnaire, please email: [email protected]
The deadline for submission of questionnaires is 10:00hrs on Monday 2nd February 2026.
Participation is voluntary. Organisations will not be prejudiced by any response or failure to respond to this questionnaire. It is not necessary to answer every question. Organisations must also note that a response to this questionnaire does not guarantee an invitation to participate in future procurement activities that the Council conducts, or that the Council will procure any such requirements or accept any proposals offered.
This is NOT the commencement of a procurement procedure. This notice does not constitute a call for competition to procure any services for the Council. The Council intends to conduct any subsequent procurement of requirements by following procedures laid down in the Procurement Act 2023.
- Latest notice published148 days ago26 May 2026, 10:59 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 83 days11 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts1 Mar 2028
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 May 2025- Pipeline notice published22 May 2025, 09:54 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Jan 2026, 12:10 GMTUK2
- Published value published: £7,200,0009 Jan 2026, 12:10 GMT
- Pipeline notice published26 May 2026, 10:59 BSTUK1
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 (3)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender