Official UK procurement notice
Universal Stop Smoking Service
Authority: London Borough of Ealing Council (Local council)
The London Borough of Ealing is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the future procurement of a Universal Stop Smoking Service.<br/><br/>This notice is issued for the purposes of preliminary market engagement only and does not constitute a call for competition or commencement of a procurement process. <br/><br/>This premarket engagement and future procurement is being undertaken under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. The London Borough of Ealing is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the future procurement of a Universal Stop Smoking Service. <br/><br/>Ealing currently commissions stop smoking support through an existing universal service model.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe London Borough of Ealing is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the future procurement of a Universal Stop Smoking Service.<br/><br/>This notice is issued for the purposes of preliminary market engagement only and does not constitute a call for competition or commencement of a procurement process. <br/><br/>This premarket engagement and future procurement is being undertaken under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The London Borough of Ealing is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform…
The London Borough of Ealing is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform the future procurement of a Universal Stop Smoking Service. <br/><br/>Ealing currently commissions stop smoking support through an existing universal service model. As the current contract approaches the end of its term in March 2027 the Council is reviewing and redesigning the service in response to local need, national policy developments, the emerging Ealing Tobacco Control Strategy (2026-2031) and additional investment available for tobacco control. <br/>The future service is expected be available to people who live in the London Borough of Ealing, are registered with an Ealing GP, or work or study within the borough.<br/><br/>The Council is seeking feedback on a potential lead provider model, under which a single organisation would hold overall contractual responsibility for the service and provide strategic leadership, governance, quality assurance, performance management and reporting.<br/><br/>The Council welcomes feedback on how best to structure these arrangements to maximise reach, effectiveness, integration and value for money.<br/><br/>The purpose of this preliminary market engagement is to inform the future service specification, delivery model and procurement approach.<br/><br/>Draft specification and more proposed service details are available at Ealing's e-tendering portal - ealinglbc-atamis.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗. Additional information: Please register on Ealing's e-tendering portal for the specification and link to premarket engagement questionnaire - ealinglbc-atamis.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How London Borough of Ealing Council buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
London Borough of Ealing Council’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Health services (CPV 8510) →
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.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Greater London.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 95 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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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 bid0% / 32%
2–358% / 32%
4–633% / 23%
7+8% / 13%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Awards below, close to or above the estimate, per lot. The buyer side adds below-threshold contracts with a pre-award estimate; an award inside a published range counts as close.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate40% / 39%
Within ±2%20% / 54%
Above estimate40% / 7%
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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.
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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 #1The London Borough of Ealing is undertaking preliminary market engagement to inform…CPV 8510Published estimate£3.6m
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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 60 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid32%
2–332%
4–623%
7+13%
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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 and Contracts Finder), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly. Contracts Finder appears in live search, the Retender Radar, contract pages, organisation counts, the earlier contracts and past suppliers on a tender's competition panel, the buyer's decision figure and its award against estimate; the other analytical figures are built from Find a Tender notices.
- 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- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Requests to participate open
- 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
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:17 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Nov 2026, 12:17 GMT
- Authority reference
PH262440- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-105666- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07b664Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
Official notice Submit via Atamis Health Family Portal- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 20 Nov 2026
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
6 Nov 2026 → 20 Nov 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published4 days ago6 Nov 2026, 12:17 GMT
- Today10 Nov 2026
- Submission deadlinein 9 days20 Nov 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Royal Court of JusticeReview body
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.