Official UK procurement notice
DHSC: Ambulance Radio Programme PME Mobile Data Vehicle Solution
Authority: Department of Health & Social Care (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDHSC is issuing this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) Invitation as part of early market engagement to seek input from the supply chain to inform requirements and identify potential delivery models for the next iteration of the Ambulance Radio Programmes (ARP) Mobile Data Vehicle Solution (MDVS).
The Authority is seeking market feedback such as assumptions, risks and cost drivers, to better understand the requirements and how future ARP contracts may be structured.
The following themes are in scope for this PME.
- Vehicle Hardware Solution (supporting Critical Voice and Data Services)
- Mobilisation and Navigation Software
- Engineering Services
- Installation Services
- Logistics and Order Fulfilment Services
The Authority anticipates a future tender exercise may be conducted in 2026, though no confirmed timeline can currently be provided.
CPV: Engineering services · Hardware installation services · Parcel delivery services · Radio, television, communication, telecommunication and related equipment · Software programming and consultancy services · Storage and warehousing services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Department of Health & Social Care buys Installation services of computers and information-processing equipment (CPV 5161), and who usually turns up
Department of Health & Social Care’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: Installation services of computers and information-processing equipment (CPV 5161) →
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.
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.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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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.
Half of these awards have an award date within 29 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 bid30% / 19%
2–328% / 34%
4–626% / 26%
7+16% / 22%
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 estimate50% / 40%
Within ±2%50% / 42%
Above estimate0% / 18%
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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 5161No real estimate
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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 74 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid19%
2–334%
4–626%
7+22%
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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
- Goods
- 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
- 5 Nov 2025, 11:11 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Nov 2025, 11:11 GMT
- Authority reference
C380249- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-071176- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05dabbFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Nov 2025 → 8 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published353 days ago5 Nov 2025, 11:11 GMT
- Market engagement305 days ago23 Dec 2025, 23:59 GMT
The preliminary market engagement exercise will be undertaken via the Atamis system. Select this link to access and register your organisation to the Atamis system health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗, if you have not already done so (registration is free of any charge).
To find this opportunity, select “Find Opportunities” and then search by project number ‘C398528’ or title ‘DHSC: Ambulance Radio Programme PME Mobile Data Vehicle Solution’.
Once you have found the Opportunity, press the ‘Register Interest’ button to register your interest. This will make the project appear on ‘My proposals and quotes’.
In the Project, you will find the non-disclosure agreement (NDA) and the Preliminary Market Engagement Invitation. Please submit a signed NDA by Tuesday 18th November to register your interest and access the remaining documents. (‘C398528ARP PME Overview of Mobile Data Vehicle Solution (MDVS) Requirements’ & ‘C398528 ARP PME Questionnaire’).
Suppliers that have submitted a signed NDA will be invited to the supplier briefing session on Wednesday 19th November 2025 at 14:30 GMT.
Indicative Timelines
- Publication of Finder a Tender PME Notice, 4th November 2025
- Deadline for Supplier to return signed Non-Disclosure Agreement, Tuesday 18th November 2025
- Supplier Briefing via Teams, Wednesday 19th November 2025 – 14:30 GMT
- Supplier Clarification period closes, Monday 15th December 2025
- Authority responds to all Open Supplier Clarifications, Thursday 18th December 2025
- Supplier PME Response deadline via Atamis, 23rd December 2025 14:30 GMT
The details within this notice are provisional and may be subject to change.
- Tender notice expected103 days ago13 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today24 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 75 days8 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Nov 2025, 11:11 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