Pre-tender

Secondary Care Medicines Data Pre-Market Engagement

Details

Value
£6,750,000
Topic
Software package and information systems
Published
29 September 2026
Submission
1 November 2026in 1 month

Tender description

NHS England is seeking to procure capability and/or related tooling for data processing of data from hospital pharmacy systemsassociated licensing and implementation support. The initial high-level objectives would be to provide: • reporting function to Trust and a national data set on the stock position and daily issuance of medicines in secondary care; and • a price comparison tool that compares the prices paid by a Trust with those of national NHS procurement framework for medicines

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published29 September 2026
    Current notice

About the buyer

NHS England runs the NHS in England, and buys as a central healthcare organisation with its own team of procurement professionals. Every tender is advertised on Atamis, the NHS's single eCommercial system, and larger contracts appear on Find a Tender. Much of this procurement flows through framework agreements and the Crown Commercial Service. Clinical services are commissioned directly or through the Provider Selection Regime. Seven regional teams support the commissioning of healthcare services across the country. The central commercial function that develops procurement strategy for the whole NHS sits here.

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 England's contract awards have been in education and training, health and social work, and IT services.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 48000000 · Software package and information systems
  • 48517000 · IT software package
  • 72000000 · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
  • 72212517 · IT software development services

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