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Athlete Medical Scheme (AMS)

Details

Buyer: The United Kingdom Sports Council (trading as UK Sport)
Value: £11,500,000
Topic: Health insurance services
Published: 1 October 2026
Submission: 2 November 2026in 1 month
Source: uk:find_a_tender

Tender description

UK Sport is seeking a suitably qualified supplier to deliver its Athlete Medical Scheme, providing timely, high-quality healthcare to eligible funded athletes. Tenderers may propose a fully insured model, a trust-based model, or both. The contract will cover the administration and management of the scheme, access to an appropriate healthcare provider network, claims handling, management information and performance reporting. The contract will commence on 1 April 2027 for an initial three-year term, with the option to extend for a further year. Please see more detail in the ITT.

Timeline

Completed: Tender published1 October 2026
Current notice
Next: Submission date2 November 2026in 1 month

About the buyer

UK Sport is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and buys as a central government agency funding high-performance sport. Tender opportunities are published on UK Sport's own Tenders page within its About Us section. Suppliers interested in future work can register interest directly with the procurement team. Every tender submission includes an equality, diversity and inclusion and sustainability questionnaire. National Lottery and government funding channelled through UK Sport has backed the high-performance system since 1997. UK Sport also coordinates bids for major international sporting events staged in Britain.

Procurement spend from central entities makes up 66% of overall UK public spend.

Over the past 5 years, most of UK Sport's contract awards have been in research and development, IT services and business services.