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Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Mobile Diagnostic and Treatment Units Dynamic Purchasing System

HealthcareCPV 34200000

Value£30.0m

Deadline2 Sept 2028

Published29 May 2025

RegionNationwide

Timeline

Published 29 May 2025737 days leftCloses 2 Sept 2028

Who to contact

info@coch-cps.co.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit

Open the submissions portal

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context

£30.0mtotal contract value

median £102k

this tender£0£32.4m

This is a large award for Transport Equipment — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 15,368 valued Transport Equipment tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust's Transport Equipment cycle is past due — it ran about every 7 months across 5 notices, and the door is open now. It may re-tender at any time.

39% of Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

This DPS will offer mobile diagnostic and/or treatment units to healthcare and/or other organisations in the UK public sector.

These units within the NHS would increase capacity within organisations to help facilitate the delivery of the elective programme and to help with waiting lists, patient backlogs and lack of staff availability/space.

Suppliers would work closely with healthcare organisations to deliver easily accessible treatments or diagnostics, either on hospital sites or closer to patients homes in more remote areas (for example at supermarkets, GP practices etc.).

By working with healthcare organisations, suppliers will relieve pressure on services by improving access to treatments and bed space, reducing patient waiting times and freeing up clinical capacity.

Units are usually provided in the form of vans or non-permanent units/cabins.

The DPS will be in three Lots: Lot 1 - Hire or Lease of Mobile Diagnostic and/or Treatment Unit(s) Lot 2 - Purchase of Mobile Diagnostic and/or Treatment Unit(s) Lot 3 - Mobile Diagnostic and/or Treatment Unit(s) as a Managed Service Applications may be made to one or more Lots.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

Suppliers would work closely with healthcare organisations

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS)Frameworks & routes to market

Mobile Diagnostic and Treatment Units Dynamic Purchasing System

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What it takes to bid this

45–80 daysof bid-team effort

£30.8k–£54.8kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £10m+ band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

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Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
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