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This isn't privatisation, its required by law to publish details of contracts being offered for healthcare provision over 750k euro after April 18th under (Public Contracts Regulations 2015) for healthcare contracts.
If you wanted to bid you'd have to bid for the whole service across provided by each current hospital and be ready to replace them on 01st April next year, and be able to do it cheaper than current providers so thats quite a big barrier to entry of the "market".
extract from NHSE letter to providers here.
"The lots are being advertised as “suites of services” to be provided in specific geographies at contract level - expressions of interest are invited at Lot level only. Therefore expressions of interest will not be accepted for individual services.
The PINs will signal our intent to award whole contracts for 2017-2019 using the NHS Standard Contract to the incumbent providers without further publication, unless; expressions of interest are received from alternative economic operators. "