Official UK procurement notice
Vending Solutions · UK public procurement notice
Authority: SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION LIMITED (Public body)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Supply Chain: Food is planning to establish a Framework Agreement for the supply of products including but not limited to: Cold Drinks, Snacks and Confectionery Vending Machines, Chilled & Hot Food Vending Machines, Hot Beverage Vending Machines, Coffee Shop Solutions, Ward Beverage Trolleys, Water Dispensers, Reverse Vending, Smart Technology & Shop Solutions, Maintenance and Servicing.
The Framework Agreement is expected to be divided into lots. Final lot structure and scope will be detailed in the future tender notice.
The current intention is to use a Framework Agreement. However, NHS Supply Chain: Food reserves the right to adopt a different procurement approach if deemed more suitable.
CPV: Automatic goods-vending machines · Food, beverages, tobacco and related products · Installation services of beverage-processing machinery · Machinery for food, beverage and tobacco processing and associated parts · Vending machines · Vending-machine ingredients · Water coolers
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 8 yrs from 4 Oct 2027
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Planned
What 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).
- “Vending Solutions” 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 SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION LIMITED buys Centrifuges, calendering or vending machines (CPV 4293), and who usually turns up
SUPPLY CHAIN COORDINATION LIMITED’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: Centrifuges, calendering or vending machines (CPV 4293) →
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 outside Greater London.
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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 107 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.
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% / 25%
2–329% / 50%
4–629% / 25%
7+43% / 0%
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 #1CPV 4293Published estimate£120m
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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 29 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–314%
4–621%
7+55%
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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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 3 Jun 2026, 13:35 BST
- Last source update
- 26 Jun 2026, 14:06 BST
- Authority reference
FAG1766- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-060377- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ac71Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
3 Jun 2026 → 4 Oct 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published140 days ago3 Jun 2026, 13:35 BST
- Latest notice published117 days ago26 Jun 2026, 14:06 BST
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Market engagementin 2 days22 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
To support the development of a comprehensive strategy and set of requirements, NHS Supply Chain: Food (the Authority) is initiating a Preliminary Market Engagement (PME). This process is intended to consult the market and identify potential suppliers capable of meeting the emerging service requirements. Through this engagement, the Authority aims to understand suppliers capacity, explore opportunities for innovation, and ensure all interested parties are informed of this opportunity.
26/06/2026 - 23/07/2026 - Request for Information (RFI)
24/07/2026 – 22/10/2026 Engagement meetings held with incumbent and new suppliers.
23/10/2026 – 23/11/2026 Category Team to analyse feedback and input into strategy as required.
Registration for the eProcurement portal is as follows;
Registration.
- Use URL nhssupplychain.app.jaggaer.com// ↗ to access the NHS Supply Chain
Procurement portal.
- If not yet registered:
— Click on the ‘Not Registered Yet’ link to access the registration page.
— Complete the registration pages as guided by the mini guide found on the landing page.
Portal access.
If registration has been completed:
— Login with URL nhssupplychain.app.jaggaer.com// ↗
— Click on Selection Questionnaires (SQs) Open to All Suppliers.
— Select from the following SQs
— Select from the following SQ_686
Suppliers can, at any point during the engagement period (up to 22/10/2026) contact the NHS Supply Chain: Food to discuss the proposed procurement by sending a message via the Messages tab on SQ_686 (Project_1766).
- Tender notice expectedin 90 days18 Jan 2027, 23:59 GMT
- Contract startsin 348 days4 Oct 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 3 Jun 2026- Pipeline notice published3 Jun 2026, 13:35 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Jun 2026, 14:02 BSTUK2
- Published value published: £120,000,00026 Jun 2026, 14:02 BST
- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Jun 2026, 14:06 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
Changes applied to the engagement process description
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement 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