Official UK procurement notice
WCC Access to health services and support for female veterans
Authority: Warwickshire County Council (Local council)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Council is looking to procure a service to deliver the female veteran transformation programme at a local level with a specific focus on the health of female veterans. In this context 'health' is recognised as physical, mental and the wider determinants of health such as housing, employment, finances etc. Specific female veteran issues of bullying, harassment, discrimination and sexually inappropriate behaviour plus issues of LGBTQ and the ban in Service life are recognised as related to mental health.
The service is to support local organisations (statutory and VCSE) in implementing the FVTP toolkit and the use of the FVTP Self-assessment tool. Outcomes of this would be to:
- Raise awareness of the needs and issues of female veterans in health settings or a health context
- Improve ability of organisations to 'Ask the question' and record the answer thus increasing the identification of and support to female veterans
- Provide a means by which the health needs and issues of women veterans may be evidenced to the local Integrated Care Board and relevant commissioners/deliverers of services to women
- Through promotion of this work identify and support female veterans to engage within their organisation and/or this project to input and co-produce any resources, training, awareness raising etc.
- The number of organisations taking up this opportunity and the changes/impact on the behaviours, systems, procedures and processes within the organisation
- Increase collaboration and referrals of female veterans amongst organisations participating, in particular those who are part of the Coventry, Solihull and Warwickshire Armed Forces Covenant Partnership.
This service is not expected to case manage women veterans who are identified as a part of this work but would be expected to appropriately refer to any relevant agency, including supporting the veteran through this process if the need arises.
As there is limited funding for this work it is recognised that there will be a limit to the number of organisations who could be supported. Where over-subscribed the focus should be on organisations who will have the biggest impact on women veterans' health and/or services delivered in areas of high deprivation. Most areas of deprivation are in the north of the county.
Ideally, the Service Provider will have an element of 'lived experience' of female veterans in the delivery of this project. This could be a collaboration of one or more agencies working together.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Warwickshire County Council buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
Warwickshire County 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
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How often local firms win similar work.
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 49 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid24% / 22%
2–324% / 31%
4–624% / 24%
7+29% / 22%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Within ±2%100% / 45%
Above estimate0% / 5%
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 8510Estimate not published
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1 bid22%
2–331%
4–624%
7+22%
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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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No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- 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
- 8 May 2026, 08:30 BST
- Last source update
- 8 May 2026, 08:30 BST
- Authority reference
WAR - 0069- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-042219- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-069404Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 May 2026 → 1 Oct 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published173 days ago8 May 2026, 08:30 BST
- Market engagement142 days ago8 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
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The deadline for Market Testing Returns is Monday 8th June 2026.
- Contract starts28 days ago1 Oct 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published8 May 2026, 08:30 BSTUK2
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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender