Official UK procurement notice
Workwell Market Engagement Event for Notts, Lincs & Derby
Authority: NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board (Central government)·Consortium: 3 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Nottingham & Nottinghamshire ICB, NHS Lincolnshire ICB and NHS Derby & Derbyshire ICB referred to as the Contracting Authority(s) wish to commission a locally designed, early-intervention work and health service for people whose health condition or disability is affecting their ability to remain in, return to, or move towards work. The service aims to provide low-intensity, personalised support that connects individuals to the right health, employment, skills and community-based provision at the earliest opportunity.
The Contracting Authority(s)' aim for this service is to operate as a system integrator, not as a standalone programme with a purpose to strengthen local work and health pathways, prevent escalation of need, reduce health-related economic inactivity and support improved population health outcomes.
The intention is for the contract to be for a period of three years, subject to the availability of grant funding. Any extension to the contract will be subject to the availability of additional funding. The estimated total contract value is approximately £10,000,000 which is collective sum of funding for the three ICBs. The potential proposed split for this value is likely to be 3 lots per territory/ ICB area, this will be confirmed at the ITT stage.
The Contracting Authority(s)' objectives for this engagement event are to:
- To test the feasibility of the proposed delivery model for their service to seek feedback from providers in the market.
- To understand market capacity and capability
- To Identify innovation opportunities and potential constraints
- To present the proposed future procurement process
This is a invitation to invite organisations with a potential interest in delivering this service to join this virtual market engagement event which will be held via Microsoft Teams.
The event will take place as follows:
DATE: Monday 14th September 2026
TIME: 12.00 to 14:00
VENUE: Via Microsoft Teams
To register an interest, please complete the questionnaire on Atamis under project reference: C467756 to where you will receive a Teams invite following successful registration. The deadline to register for this event is Friday 11th September at 17:00.
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This preliminary market engagement is being undertaken in accordance with sections 16 and 17 of the Procurement Act 2023 and Regulation 17 of the Procurement Regulations 2024.
Enquiries: All communications regarding this engagement should be submitted via the eProcurement (Atamis) portal message function. The contact email in this notice is provided for administrative support only.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board buys Health and social work services (CPV 85), and who usually turns up
NHS Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care Board’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: Health and social work services (CPV 85) →
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. Small firms win less of this buyer’s work than the market’s: 22% against 46%, n=91.
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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 Midlands.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in East Midlands. More of this buyer’s work stays local than in this market: 90% against 48%, n=109.
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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 47 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% / 18%
2–317% / 34%
4–639% / 24%
7+44% / 24%
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 estimate0% / 32%
Within ±2%100% / 59%
Above estimate0% / 8%
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£10m
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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 216 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid18%
2–334%
4–624%
7+24%
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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
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 2 Sept 2026, 16:32 BST
- Last source update
- 2 Sept 2026, 16:32 BST
- Authority reference
C467756- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-083200- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
2 Sept 2026 → 5 Mar 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published50 days ago2 Sept 2026, 16:32 BST
- Market engagement38 days ago14 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
Market Engagement Event on Monday 14th September 2026 12:00 - 14:00
- Tender notice expected35 days ago17 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 133 days5 Mar 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published2 Sept 2026, 16:32 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
3 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- NHS Derby & Derbyshire Integrated Care BoardContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
- NHS Lincolnshire Integrated Care BoardContracting authorityPublic authority - central government
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