Stale Pre-tender

NHS Urgent & Emergency Care (UEC) Managed Telephony Services

Details

Topic
Communications network
Published
17 February 2026
Submission
31 July 2026

Tender description

NHS England is undertaking further preliminary market engagement to inform the potential development of a future procurement for NHS 111, 119 and 999 National Managed Telephony Infrastructure Services pending a procurement for the required and related services, anticipated to be conducted during 2027/28. For the purposes of the engagement, the services are separated into the following Lots. Lot A – Hosting and Routing (Inbound Services) Lot B – Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) - Cloud Services This stage of the preliminary market engagement invites interested parties to submit their response to a Request For information (RFI). Participation in this preliminary market engagement is voluntary and non-binding, not a commitment to procure, not part of any formal evaluation and not a condition of participation in any future procurement. No supplier will be advantaged or disadvantaged by choosing to participate or not participate. Any future procurement (if progressed) will be conducted in line with applicable public procurement legislation. The estimated contract dates are not defined at this stage; therefore the dates indicated in the Notice are for illustrative purposes only.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Pre-tender published17 February 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

  • 32412000 · Communications network
  • 32412100 · Telecommunications network
  • 32424000 · Network infrastructure
  • 32571000 · Communications infrastructure
  • 50334110 · Telephone network maintenance services
  • 64200000 · Telecommunications services
  • 64210000 · Telephone and data transmission services
  • 64215000 · IP telephone services

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