Official UK procurement notice
Adult Social Care - Organisation Checking API Solution
Authority: NHS Business Services Authority (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS BSA require an API solution that allows us to check whether organisations are linked via parent and child structure.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · IT software package · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Business Services Authority buys Communication software package (CPV 4851), and who usually turns up
NHS Business Services Authority’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Communication software package (CPV 4851) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Here, local means registered in North East England (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside North East England.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 52 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid33% / 25%
2–350% / 0%
4–617% / 25%
7+0% / 50%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate80%
Within ±2%20%
Above estimate0%
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 4851Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 37 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid14%
2–338%
4–635%
7+14%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Below threshold
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Feb 2026, 14:48 GMT
- Last source update
- 11 Feb 2026, 14:48 GMT
- Authority reference
C417999- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-012487- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-064e12Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
11 Feb 2026 → 1 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published251 days ago11 Feb 2026, 14:48 GMT
- Market engagement236 days ago25 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is an Arm’s Length Body of the Department of Health and Social Care, responsible for providing platforms and delivering services that support the priorities of the NHS, Government and local health economies. Over £100 billion of NHS spend flows through our systems annually.
Our purpose is to deliver business service excellence to the NHS to help people live longer, healthier lives. Our vision is to be the provider of national, at scale business services for the health and social care system, transforming and delivering these services to maximise efficiency and meet customer expectations.
The Adult Social Care (ASC) Learning and Development Support Scheme (LDSS) provides funding to help the non-regulated adult social care workforce complete training courses and qualifications.
It gives organisations and staff in the adult social care sector the opportunity to gain recognition for existing expertise and develop new skills and specialisms and allows ASC employers to claim towards costs they have incurred when putting their staff on certain courses and qualifications.
The NHS BSA administer the LDSS on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care. Adult social care providers can claim for funding on behalf of employees through our online claims service.
Background and high-level requirements:
The NHS BSA and DHSC are seeking an improved way for the LDSS Service to map parent organisations to child (subsidiary) organisations within the Adult Social Care sector, making it easier to apply the cap per parent organisation, track reimbursement accurately and reduce fraud risk. DHSC has requested that the parent and child structure to be implemented on LDSS follows the definition in section 1162 of the Companies Act 2006 (Companies Act 2006, Section 1162).
Each organisation is responsible for entering their own data via the ASC Workforce Data Set (WDS) system and allows for a parent-child account structure managed by Skills for Care (SfC), but this is not applied in the Companies House legal definition required for LDSS funding. Therefore, when the data is transferred from SfC we have no way of seeing if organisations are related and applying the cap.
In order to achieve this, once an organisation has entered their details we want to be able to run an automatic check via an API to pull back the organisations that are legal subsidiaries or be able to identify if they are a subsidiary of a parent organisation, one that is already registered or not. Currently we will need to run approximately 1,000 – 2,000 organisations per year via the API to check their company details.
Please download the documentation and send your response to this RFI via the Atamis portal ( atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗).
- Contract starts202 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published11 Feb 2026, 14:48 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- Bid statistics
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender