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Published 11 Jul 2025, 16:29 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Clinical Audit Tool · UK public procurement notice

Official notice

Authority: North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (Central government)

GoodsAbove threshold
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 15 Aug 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Oct 2028 · up to 31 Oct 2030 with extensions · starts 1 Nov 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The project aims to procure, where possible, a turn-key commercial off the shelf solution to replace in-house developed tools, for the conduct of clinical audit. Following successful delivery and acceptance of the system the Trust wishes to engage the supplier for operational maintenance and support services.

The high-level scope requires an audit tool that:

  1. Can interface with in-service systems such as electronic patient record and computer aided dispatch and/or the NWAS data warehouse to import data required to complete regulatory audits, e.g. ambulance care quality indicator (ACQI) returns and/or to conduct local discretionary audits.
  2. Can record, store and report on the audits required for NWAS integrated contact centre to maintain their licence to operate the various clinical decision support systems, e.g. NHS Pathways, used in the trust.

CPV: Software package and information systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 3 yrs
Contract period: 1 Nov 2025 – 31 Oct 2028 (3 yrs) · up to 31 Oct 2030 with extensions
Delivery: North West
Extensions: Extension options published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
Notice status
Past planning notice
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
11 Jul 2025, 16:29 BST
Last source update
11 Jul 2025, 16:29 BST
Authority reference
NWAS-TR-18-24
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-039414
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systems
Delivery area
North West (UKD)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-055dfe Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

11 Jul 2025 → 1 Nov 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    11 Jul 2025, 16:29 BST
  2. Market engagement
    8 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST

    A one-hour market engagement session will be held on Microsoft Teams on Friday 1st August from 10:30am to 11:30am. The purpose of this session is to inform potential suppliers of a forthcoming opportunity to tender for a digital clinical audit tool (CAT) solution for North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust (NWAS). NWAS will present an overview of the current state for conducting audits and articulate the future business needs. Afterwards, a question and answer document containing specific technical questions will be issued to all suppliers who have expressed an interest in this notice. Suppliers will be asked to submit any responses by Friday 8th August.

    Any information obtained by the Trust through this market engagement will be used solely to conceptualise how the system can be realised, considering the various data sources. The Trust will take care to ensure that any amendments made to the specification, based on the responses received to the questionnaire, do not favour any one supplier or solution.

    The findings and outcome of this market engagement will be published in the ITT documentation. Any confidential information including intellectual property must be identified by any suppliers submitting responses to the question and answer document. Any such information will not be published in the ITT.

    NWAS have scheduled to publish the ITT on Friday 15th August, however, this date is subject to change. Procurement is estimated to be completed by November 2025.

    Any expressions of interest to take part in this market engagement should be emailed to [email protected] by Wednesday 30th July at 4pm. You will then be invited to the market engagement session scheduled for Friday 1st August and included in any further communications regarding this market engagement notice.

  3. Tender notice expected
    15 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts360 days ago
    1 Nov 2025

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    11 Jul 2025, 16:29 BST
    UK2

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

NORTH WEST AMBULANCE SERVICE NHS TRUST

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-NHS: RX7 · GB-PPON: PGTN-2617-YXZW Chorley New Road, Bolton, North West, BL1 5DDContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure