--- title: "Occupational Health Provision" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-06e86d" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06e86d" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06e86d.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06e86d.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "Oxford City Council" published: "2026-08-20" --- # Occupational Health Provision Buyer: Oxford City Council Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-06e86d [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-06e86d) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-06e86d.json) ## Summary Oxford City Council is planning to retender its occupational health provision, covering company health services for the council. The procurement is intended to support the council’s workforce through occupational health services, with the future specification informed by current market capability and emerging good practice. Areas under consideration include service delivery models, digital capability, clinical capacity, management information and innovation. The work will be delivered for Oxford City Council in Oxford. This is a single planned service requirement and is identified as suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises. Suppliers operating in occupational health, employee health, workplace wellbeing or related clinical services may find the scope relevant, particularly where they can provide a broad service rather than a single specialist intervention. The process is at the planning and early market engagement stage. Oxford City Council is seeking information to inform a future retender, rather than inviting tenders at this stage. Suppliers wishing to participate in the engagement are expected to register on the council’s procurement portal, review the engagement information and complete all or part of a supplier survey. The survey is expected by 11 September 2026 at 14:00. The council expects the next notice to be published by 30 September 2026. The planned contract period is 1 February 2027 to 31 January 2030. The expected procurement procedure has not been set out. The engagement will explore pricing models, delivery options, innovation, digital capability, clinical capacity and management information. This planning exercise is most relevant to occupational health providers with the clinical capacity and operational scale to serve a council workforce over a multi-year service period. The council is specifically looking to understand different pricing models and service delivery options, so suppliers able to offer flexible commercial and delivery approaches should prepare useful market evidence. Relevant capability is likely to include occupational health assessment and advice, digitally enabled services, reliable management information and the ability to demonstrate innovation or emerging good practice. Providers should consider how they would evidence clinical quality, capacity, workforce resilience and service performance. SMEs are identified as suitable, so established specialists and smaller providers with credible delivery models may both be well placed when the requirement reaches the market. ## Notice Oxford City Council is undertaking early market engagement to inform the retender of its Occupational Health provision. The purpose of this Request for Information is to understand the current Occupational Health market, including likely pricing models, service delivery options, innovation, digital capability, clinical capacity, management information and any emerging good practice that should be reflected in a future specification. ### Planning Information Suppliers who wish to engage with this early market engagement stage should register at the Oxford City Council procurement portal https://in-tendhost.co.uk/oxfordcc/aspx/Home . They will be able to review information about the engagement and download the supplier survey, which should be completed either partially or in full, and submitted via the portal by 11th September at 14:00. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/079380-2026 | | Notice type | UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 20 Aug 2026 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 30 Sep 2026 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 1 Feb 2027 - 31 Jan 2030 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Planning | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | Oxford City Council | | Locality | OXFORD | | Postcode area | Oxford | | Postcode | OX1 1BX | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLJ South East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLJ1 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire | | ITL 3 | TLJ14 Oxfordshire CC | | Local authority | Oxford | | Electoral ward | Holywell | | Westminster constituency | Oxford West and Abingdon | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85147000 - Company health services ## Release History - 20 Aug 2026 at 11:46 - PlanningUpdate - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/079380-2026 - 20 Aug 2026 at 11:44 - Planning - UK2 - Preliminary Market Engagement Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/079377-2026 ## Documents - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/079380-2026 20th August 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/079377-2026 20th August 2026 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ## Notice URLs - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/oxfordcc/aspx/Home - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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