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ESR Transformation Programme Financial Advisors

Buyer: NHS Business Services Authority →

BuyerNHS Business Services Authority
StatusawardUpdate
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published4 Jul 2025

What is being bought

The source has not published a summary for this record.

Delivery location

UKC

Categories

Business and management consultancy services 79410000

Lot details

Lot 1

The provider will work with, and as part of, the Transformation Programme Team established<br/>by the NHSBSA charged with the delivery of the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Transformation Programme procurement.<br/>The overarching requirement and objectives are to provide financial assurance and advice to<br/>ensure that there are compliant and appropriate services contracts for the ESR procurement<br/>and the future transformed service. Key outputs are:<br/>• Advise and support the ESR Transformation Programme Team in the development and build<br/>of financial model(s) capable of supporting the ESR service, including legacy and<br/>transformation.<br/>• Provide advice and quality assurance of content in the financially related contract<br/>documents and schedules.<br/>• Advise and support all stages of the procurement process including but not limited to:<br/>• Pre-procurement planning and documentation development;<br/>• Evaluation of bidder's submissions including pricing models;<br/>• Negotiation stages up to Contract Award.<br/>• Advise and assurance against Final Business Case.

Contract periodFrom 14 Feb 2023 to 19 Dec 2025

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 79. The category anchor is Business and management consultancy services (79410000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 7913,7424 median · 30.9 average (5,805 of 13,742 with a bid count)3.2 average (6,510 of 13,742 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer133 median · 3.3 average (7 of 13 with a bid count)1 average (7 of 13 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKC5224 median · 51.4 average (239 of 522 with a bid count)4.7 average (265 of 522 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Awards

Contracts

037427-2025-23_02_01-1

Statusactive
Value£3,537,280

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-045668
Latest release ID037427-2025
Latest release timestampFri Jul 04 2025 11:56:22 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusNot published
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release2

Notice history

DateEventReference
4 Jul 2025awardUpdate, contractUpdate037427-2025
1 May 2024awardUpdate, contractUpdate014020-2024
1 May 2024award, contract014007-2024

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (3 releases)
4 Jul 2025 · 037427-2025 · awardUpdate, contractUpdate
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1 May 2024 · 014020-2024 · awardUpdate, contractUpdate
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1 May 2024 · 014007-2024 · award, contract
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