Official UK procurement notice
The Provision of Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Services
Authority: Hertfordshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionIt is the intention to award a contract(s) using the Direct Award B process under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR) to provide additional Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) services in Hertfordshire.
If you wish to be considered as a potential provider and can meet the mandatory requirements with the ability to deliver the required services stated in Section II.2.4, please email [email protected] by no later than 12pm on Wednesday 25th March.
CPV: Medical practice services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1To provide sexual health contraception services - in order to reduce pressure on…Planned
To provide sexual health contraception services - in order to reduce pressure on primary care services and enable more women to access contraception.
This is a demand led service. In addition, those fitting the LARC shall deliver the minimum number of fits to sustain clinical competency (minimum of 1 fit per month)
Mandatory requirements:
- Provide Hertfordshire-based LARC clinics for Hertfordshire residents for contraceptive purposes, offering IUC fitting, checking, monitoring, removal, and post coital IUC for emergency contraception
- Deliver all IUC procedures safely and in line with CoSRH guidance, ensuring timely review and referral for complications such as bleeding, pain, or infection
- Ensure all clinicians are accredited (LoC IUT or equivalent) and maintain ongoing competence, training, safeguarding and clinical compliance
- Offer full patient assessment, counselling, and aftercare, including STI risk assessment, information provision, chlamydia screening for Under 25s, and easy access for problem management and appropriate ongoing signposting where required.
- Maintain suitable clinical premises and equipment with required facilities for IUC procedures and full compliance with infection prevention standards.
- Keep accurate clinical records and submit quarterly audit data in the required format for activity monitoring and payment
- Demonstrate strong clinical governance and quality assurance, including NICE compliance, incident reporting, safeguarding, CQC registration, and participation in Council monitoring visits
- Ensure continuity of service and clear communication, reporting staff changes or service disruptions promptly and having IT systems that support robust data capture and submission
- Ensure those fitting the LARC shall deliver the minimum number of fits to sustain clinical competency (minimum of 1 fit per month)
- Suppliers MUST be at a minimum of Cyber Essentials accreditation level OR accredited under a process of recognised equivalence or better, e.g. Public Sector Network (PSN) or Data Security and Protection Toolkit (NHS Digital) or ISO2700
- Dun & Bradstreet risk of low, low-moderate or moderate
We may ask for further information from the provider to support any of the above requirements Additional information: The FTS system requires a date of publication for the Contract Notice. However as we are intending to award a contract under Direct Award Process B, there will be no contract notice.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Hertfordshire County Council buys Medical practice and related services (CPV 8512), and who usually turns up
Hertfordshire County Council’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: Medical practice and related services (CPV 8512) →
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 East of England.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East of England.
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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 67 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.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid11% / 24%
2–319% / 14%
4–611% / 43%
7+59% / 19%
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 estimate21% / 9%
Within ±2%79% / 82%
Above estimate0% / 9%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1To provide sexual health contraception services - in order to reduce pressure on…CPV 8512Published estimate£32k
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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 21 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid24%
2–314%
4–643%
7+19%
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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.
| Supplier | This buyer’s earlier contract | Lot | Award value | Why listed |
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| Pregnancy Expectations Trauma and Loss Society (PETALS)Earlier contract | Contract for the Provision of Baby Loss Counselling Servicenotice published Jul 2025 | — | £340k | Matched as the earlier contract |
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
42% title match.
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.
42% title match.
A past supplier may not bid again.
The prior contract this notice most likely re-tenders · matched by title and category (42% title match), the holder is not guaranteed to re-bid
Contract for the Provision of Baby Loss Counselling Service — held by Pregnancy Expectations Trauma and Loss Society (PETALS); no contract end date published.
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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 18 Mar 2026, 12:14 GMT
- Last source update
- 18 Mar 2026, 12:14 GMT
- Authority reference
HCC2617627- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-024527- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-066d5cFind a Tender
Publisher note: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) notice. The awarding of this contract(s) is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. It is the intention is to award a contract(s) using Direct Award Process B
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
18 Mar 2026 → 1 Apr 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published218 days ago18 Mar 2026, 12:14 GMT
- Tender notice expected204 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications
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