Pre-tender

Community Pharmacy Sexual and Reproductive Health Pilot

Details

Value
£150,000
Topic
Family-planning services
Published
2 October 2026

Tender description

Provision of a Community Pharmacy Sexual and Reproductive Health Service Pilot for 1 year with the option to extend for a further 1 year (up to a 2 year Pilot). We are seeking to award contracts to up to four suitable providers through the Most Suitable Provider Process. In response to identified local health needs, one provider will be appointed for each of the priority localities of Meir, Tunstall, Bentilee and Etruria, ensuring service coverage across the city and improving access for communities. This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intended approach notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, neither the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 nor the Procurement Act 2023 apply to this award. Stoke on Trent City Council intends to award a contract for the provision of the Community Pharmacy Sexual and Reproductive Health Service Pilot using the Most Suitable Provider Process. Lot 1: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Notice of Intention to follow the Most Suitable Provider Process for the award of a contract for the Provision of a Community Pharmacy Sexual and Reproductive Health Service (Pilot for 1 year with the option to extend for a further 1 year up to a 2 year Pilot). The service will provide Community Pharmacy Sexual and Reproductive Health Services for residents of Stoke on Trent. This procurement is being undertaken in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 using the Most Suitable Provider Process (Regulation 10).

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published2 October 2026
    Current notice

About the buyer

Stoke-on-Trent City Council is a local authority, and its Category Management team runs procurement from the Civic Centre. Contract opportunities are listed on the council's own tender-search portal and on the government's Contracts Finder service. Pro-Contract, the Supply Stoke and Staffordshire portal, hosts contract opportunities shared across Staffordshire councils. A Commercial Pipeline gives suppliers advance notice of upcoming contracts before they are formally advertised. Every tendering procedure follows the council's own Procurement Code alongside the Procurement Act 2023. An awarded contracts directory publishes the outcome of every past tender for suppliers to review.

UK local government drives £140bn in annual procurement, led by social protection (£66.6bn) and education (£57.1bn).

Over the past 5 years, most of Stoke-on-Trent City Council's contract awards have been in construction work, architectural and engineering services and health and social work.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 85312330 · Family-planning services

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