Stale Pre-tender

National Sexual Health System for Scotland

Details

Topic
Software package and information systems
Published
8 August 2025

Tender description

NaSH, the National Sexual Health System for Scotland has been providing digital patient management services to clinicians in Scotland since 2008. NSS, on behalf of the NHS Boards using the system, wish to research the market to understand if new options are available and where their current system sits in the market. The sexual health services provided by NHS Scotland must be responsive to the needs of the population and the current IT solution provides a full electronic patient record (EPR) for patients registered within it. This supports integrated specialist sexual health services including genitourinary medicine, sexual and reproductive health, abortion services, counselling, psychosexual medicine, HIV care and registries for hepatitis B & C and gender. Lot 1: NSS is researching market available options to replace the current contract for NaSH. A Market Research Questionnaire is attached and NSS invite responses describing solutions available with responses requested by Monday 8 September 2025.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published8 August 2025
    Current notice

About the buyer

NHS National Services Scotland is a national healthcare body serving NHS Scotland, and its National Procurement arm is Scotland's largest procurement organisation. Tenders are advertised on Public Contracts Scotland under the buyer name Common Services Agency. Suppliers apply for those tenders to get onto a national framework. Each contract record on the register names the framework, its dates, the winning suppliers and the National Procurement contract owner. The National Distribution Service then delivers stock to hospital wards and community centres across NHS Scotland. Innovative products can be submitted through an online innovation portal.

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 National Services Scotland's contract awards have been in medical equipment and pharmaceuticals, IT services and transport equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 48000000 · Software package and information systems
  • 72000000 · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

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