Official UK procurement notice
Digital Destruction of Records & Digital Forensics
Authority: University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (NHS & healthcare)
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to secure consultancy to advice on the appropriate preservation of digital and other evidence in support of investigations at the Trust for external scrutiny. To ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and NHS standards, the Trust seeks a qualified Digital Forensic Consultancy to provide expert advice and operational support. During this period the integrity of data must be retained, even when technical environments need to be updated.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUniversity Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust is seeking to secure consultancy to advice on the appropriate preservation of digital and other evidence in support of investigations at the Trust for external scrutiny.
To ensure compliance with legal, regulatory, and NHS standards, the Trust seeks a qualified Digital Forensic Consultancy to provide expert advice and operational support.
The aim is to ensure that all evidence can be preserved in a technical environment that can be accessed over long periods of time i.e. over 10 years. During this period the integrity of data must be retained, even when technical environments need to be updated. The data needs to be legally admissible at whatever point this becomes necessary.
CPV: Archive destruction services · Computer audit services · Computer network services · Security 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 Sussex NHS Foundation Trust buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust’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: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
How the contest usually goes
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Half of these awards have an award date within 49 days of the bid deadline.
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How many bids did past lots attract?
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1 bid4%
2–334%
4–632%
7+30%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate47%
Within ±2%33%
Above estimate19%
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Lot #1CPV 7221Estimate not published
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1 bid8%
2–330%
4–629%
7+33%
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Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
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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
- 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
- 30 Sept 2026, 13:29 BST
- Last source update
- 30 Sept 2026, 13:29 BST
- Authority reference
C474281- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-092365- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-077d95Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
30 Sept 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published45 days ago30 Sept 2026, 13:29 BST
- Market engagement30 days ago14 Oct 2026, 23:59 BST
Pre Market Engagment
- Today14 Nov 2026
- Contract startsin 47 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published30 Sept 2026, 13:29 BSTUK2
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