Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 25 Jun 2026, 14:36 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Cadent Occupational Health System

Authority: CADENT GAS LIMITED (Public body)

GoodsBelow threshold
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 4 yrsends 30 Nov 2030 · starts 1 Dec 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Cadent is seeking information on solutions to support its Occupational Health function, including case management, confidential clinical records, appointment scheduling, and workflow management.

The current system has been in place for five years and relies heavily on manual processes and workarounds. Suppliers are therefore invited to describe their organisation's capabilities and approach to addressing these challenges.

Please note this is not a call for competition.

Current State

Cadent's current Occupational Health system is characterised by the following:

Workflow and case management processes are heavily dependent on administrative input, with manual steps required to manage and progress cases

High levels of manual effort are required to maintain records and manage workloads

Reporting capability is limited, with outputs requiring manual extraction and manipulation

Appointment booking and diary management require significant administrative input, with limited visibility of utilisation

Confidential record keeping and report sharing rely on manual controls and processes

Auditability and compliance are more difficult to demonstrate due to reliance on manual processes

Data quality risks exist due to manual handling, and generating insights requires additional manipulation

Future State (Target)

Cadent is seeking solutions that deliver the following outcomes:

Structured case management supported by configurable workflows, prioritisation and escalation

Reduced administrative burden through automation, templates and improved visibility of work in progress

Built-in dashboards and reporting capability with minimal manual intervention

Integrated appointment booking and diary management to optimise utilisation

Secure, role-based access to confidential records with controlled sharing and full auditability

Clear audit trails and compliance controls aligned to GDPR and wider security requirements

Improved data quality through structured data capture, enabling analytics and trend identification

High-Level Capabilities

Cadent is seeking information on supplier capabilities across the following areas:

Data protection compliant confidential record keeping, including secure clinical case management, controlled sharing and audit functionality

Workflow management capability to support task management, prioritisation, escalation and improved visibility of case status

Appointment booking and diary management capability to improve scheduling efficiency and reduce administrative effort

Management information and data analytics capability to provide performance reporting and enable identification of risks and trends

Solution Outcomes

Cadent is seeking solutions that:

Reduce manual administrative effort and improve efficiency

Provide reliable management information and operational insight

Enhance compliance, auditability and data security

Improve user experience for employees, managers and Occupational Health teams

Support scalability and future service requirements

Key Drivers

Data protection and confidentiality, including alignment with UK GDPR

Reduction in administrative burden and improvement in efficiency

Improved workflow visibility and control

Enhanced management information and insight

Improved scheduling and utilisation

Security assurance

Service resilience and supportability

CPV: Software package and information systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 4 yrs
Contract period: 1 Dec 2026 – 30 Nov 2030 (4 yrs)
Delivery: UK

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How CADENT GAS LIMITED buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up

CADENT GAS LIMITED’s published record next to the market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerCADENT GAS LIMITED · all categories
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 6 of 11 known-size awards · market: division 48 · UK-wide, n=2,271
55%31%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

How often local firms win similar work.

Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.

Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered.

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 10 of 11 known-location awards · market: division 48 · UK-wide, n=2,048
91%28%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.

Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.

Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 5 decided notices · market: division 48 · UK-wide, n=241
82 days62 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 82 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: at least 10 of 18 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: division 48 · UK-wide, n=3,605
56%66%

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?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with bid counts, 5 needed · all categories
The market379 lots with bid counts · division 48 · UK-wide
15% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid15%
Market: 58 of 379 lots with published bid counts.
2–331%
Market: 118 of 379 lots with published bid counts.
4–632%
Market: 120 of 379 lots with published bid counts.
7+22%
Market: 83 of 379 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 1 lot with estimate and award, 5 needed · broad CPV 48
The market230 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · UK-wide
55% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate55%
Market: 126 of 230 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%25%
Market: 57 of 230 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20%
Market: 47 of 230 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 4848 monthsEstimate not published

This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. The comparison uses that group.

Expected competition
i

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 379 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet15% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 379 similar lots
1 bid15%
58 of 379 similar past lots received 1 bid (15%).
2–331%
118 of 379 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–632%
120 of 379 similar past lots received 4–6 (32%).
7+22%
83 of 379 similar past lots received 7+ (22%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—Estimate not published
The buyer published no estimate for this lot, so there is nothing to forecast against. A price prediction here would be a number about a number we do not have.

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.

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.

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
Goods
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
25 Jun 2026, 14:36 BST
Last source update
25 Jun 2026, 14:36 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-059905
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systems
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06bd39 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

25 Jun 2026 → 1 Dec 2026 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published120 days ago
    25 Jun 2026, 14:36 BST
  2. Market engagement99 days ago
    15 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST

    Request Summary

    Through this Request for Information (RFI) exercise, Cadent is seeking to understand the market. Suppliers are invited to provide responses to the following:

    1. System Overview and Core Functionality

    Provide a high-level overview of your Occupational Health system, including how it supports:

    Case management and workflow

    Clinical record management

    Appointment booking and diary management

    Self-service capability for employees and managers

    User interface capability, including interaction between Occupational Health, employees and managers, and any external access arrangements

    (Maximum one page)

    1. Workflow, Configuration and Usability

    Describe how your solution supports:

    Configurable workflows, templates and assessments

    Automated task management and case progression

    Real-time case visibility and prioritisation

    (Maximum one page)

    1. Records Management, Data Handling and Reporting

    Describe your system's capability to:

    Maintain secure, structured clinical records

    Retrieve and export records in a user-friendly format

    Provide standard dashboards and management information

    Enable analysis and insight without manual data manipulation

    (Maximum one page)

    1. Integration, Architecture and Access

    Provide a high-level overview of:

    Deployment type (SaaS, PaaS or on-premise), including hosting location if SaaS

    Integration capability with HR or enterprise systems, including APIs

    Ability to support real-time or near real-time data integration

    Support for Single Sign-On (SSO)

    (Maximum one page)

    1. Security and Compliance

    Confirm whether the solution:

    Is compliant with UK GDPR

    Supports role-based access control and full audit logging

    Holds, or is working towards, Cyber Essentials Plus and/or ISO 27001

    Please also describe your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery approach, including how service continuity is maintained in the event of a system outage.

    (Maximum one page)

    1. Commercial Model and ROM Costs

    Provide:

    A high-level pricing approach (e.g. licence model)

    Indicative implementation and ongoing costs

    Key commercial assumptions

    Please send your responses to [email protected] by the deadline.

  3. Today
    23 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 39 days
    1 Dec 2026

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    25 Jun 2026, 14:36 BST
    UK2

Commercial outcome & contract awards

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Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

CADENT GAS LIMITED

Contracting authorityPrivate utility GB-COH: 10080864 · GB-PPON: PNHM-3269-DNNL Cadent Gas Limited, Pilot Way, Coventry, West Midlands, CV7 9JUContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

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