Stale Pre-tender

Volunteer and Social Impact Platform, and Managed Service

Details

Buyer: NHS Business Services Authority
Value: £310,000
Topic: Software package and information systems
Published: 2 May 2025
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

The Authority requires a single Supplier to provide a Volunteering and Social Impact (VASI) platform, and managed service to deliver a comprehensive digital solution. The purpose of the VASI platform and associated managed service is to enable a significant increase in large-scale volunteering across the Organisation, and will be used to transform the sourcing, promotion, management, co-ordination and tracking of volunteer activities by the Authorities staff. Prior Published Notices Under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 a PIN was published and a Pre-Market Engagement exercise was carried out, the links to these are below. Contracts Finder https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/e3dd00e0-27ec-4d92-afe0-865a0c35fe5c https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/17f3c29f-2737-423b-b7ef-01f1ceb1e7f1 Find a Tender Service https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/027357-2024 https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/029141-2024

Timeline

Completed: Pre-tender published2 May 2025
Current notice

About the buyer

NHS Business Services Authority operates as a healthcare buyer, delivering national support services across the NHS in England. Contract opportunities are advertised through the Health Family Single eCommercial System, its dedicated procurement portal. Larger tenders appear on Find a Tender, with smaller notices published on Contracts Finder. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements and the Crown Commercial Service. Commercial teams grade contracts as Gold, Silver or Bronze according to value and risk. Suppliers register on the Central Digital Platform to complete pre-qualification checks.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of NHS Business Services Authority's contract awards have been in education and training, IT services and business services.

Relevant CPV codes

48000000 · Software package and information systems
48900000 · Miscellaneous software package and computer systems
72000000 · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
72224000 · Project management consultancy services
72260000 · Software-related services
75200000 · Provision of services to the community
85000000 · Health and social work services
85322000 · Community action programme
85323000 · Community health services
98113000 · Services furnished by specialist organisations

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-business-services-authority.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-business-services-authority.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-business-services-authority.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-business-services-authority.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-business-services-authority.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-business-services-authority.gov