Official UK procurement notice
AI Theatre Planning · UK public procurement notice
Authority: University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUHL & UHN Group requires the Provision of the AI Services relate to the provision of a Theatre Productivity application built on the FDP canonical data model and deployed entirely within the Trusts’ FDP tenant. The Group is seeking to appoint a Service Provider to deliver an AI services pilot that includes the design, deployment, and early-use evaluation of a real time, predictive theatre productivity platform.
CPV: IT software development services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust’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: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
How the contest usually goes
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How often small and medium firms win.
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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 East Midlands (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 East Midlands.
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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 48 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.
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Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
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How many bids past lots received.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid4%
2–334%
4–633%
7+30%
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 estimate47%
Within ±2%33%
Above estimate19%
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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.
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No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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Lot #1CPV 7221No real estimate
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 55 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid9%
2–327%
4–625%
7+38%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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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.
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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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 19 Feb 2026, 16:07 GMT
- Last source update
- 19 Feb 2026, 16:07 GMT
- Authority reference
C425464- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-015402- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06588aFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
19 Feb 2026 → 31 Mar 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published245 days ago19 Feb 2026, 16:07 GMT
- Market engagement215 days ago20 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
UHL & UHN Group requires the Provision of the AI Services relate to the provision of a Theatre Productivity application built on the FDP canonical data model and deployed entirely within the Trusts’ FDP tenant.
The Group is seeking to appoint a Service Provider to deliver an AI services pilot that includes the design, deployment, and early-use evaluation of a real time, predictive theatre productivity platform, including these product capabilities:
Product Capabilities in Scope of Pilot:
- Real time, historical & forecast theatre performance metrics (utilisation, delays, overruns, cancellations)
- AI powered predictive & prescriptive analytics (identifying risks, recommending operational actions)
- Interactive dashboards tailored to clinicians, ops teams, and execs
- Benchmarking across sites & specialties to identify unwarranted variation
- Early Warning System for late starts, overruns, utilisation risks
- Outlier detection (repeated delays, underused theatres)
- Planned vs Actual auto matching to surface operational variances quickly
- Impact tracking to measure which interventions work
- Conversation AI for generating custom insights
- Digital twin for demand, schedule, attendance
- Seamless FDP integration using UHL & UHN canonical data model
- Standardised definitions & metrics to support consistent decision making
- Employ and train users; and provide change management support for successful adoption including but not limited to communications, SOPs, training, floor-walking, post-go live support
Services in Scope of Pilot:
- Co-design with UHL & UHN Theatre Operational, Clinical, and Improvement teams
- Deployment within UHL & UHN FDP tenant
- Governance & assurance activities (NHSE IG, UHL & UHN Tech Design Assurance, IG, Cyber, clinical safety, and AI Governance)
- Operational improvement support and KPI baseline setup
- Product development to MVP and incremental feature releases (subject to scoping and timelines agreed to by project team)
- Evaluation of benefits jointly with UHL & UHN
- Training, user adoption support, and theatre operational enablement
- Participation in NHSE FDP solution exchange
- Tender notice expected205 days ago30 Mar 2026, 23:59 BST
- Contract starts205 days ago31 Mar 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published19 Feb 2026, 16:07 GMTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Pipeline notice- Awards (0)
- No award published
- Contracts (0)
- No contract published
- Bid statistics
- No aggregate bid statistics published
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