Official UK procurement notice
Headless Content Management System (CMS) and Digital Experience Platform (DXP) Market Engagement
Authority: NHS 24 (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS 24 is undertaking market engagement to inform the potential procurement of a Headless Content Management System (CMS) and Digital Experience Platform (DXP). The exercise will explore available solutions, delivery models, implementation approaches and commercial options to support the future NHS 24 digital experience and content management capability.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · IT software development services · Web page editing software development services · Web server software development services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1NHS 24 is undertaking a preliminary market consultation to inform the potential…Planned
NHS 24 is undertaking a preliminary market consultation to inform the potential procurement and implementation of a modern Headless Content Management System (CMS) and wider Digital Experience Platform (DXP) capability. The objective is to understand available market solutions, delivery approaches, commercial models and routes to market capable of supporting a secure, scalable and API-driven platform for the creation, management and reuse of content across websites, mobile experiences, conversational interfaces and future digital channels.
The potential requirement may include platform licensing, hosting, implementation, systems integration, content modelling, content migration, user experience design, front-end development, training, support, knowledge transfer and ongoing service management. NHS 24 has not yet determined the preferred procurement approach and is seeking supplier input on alternative delivery models, including platform-only, implementation-only, end-to-end and multi-supplier arrangements.
This exercise is for market engagement purposes only and does not constitute a formal procurement competition or commitment to procure. Supplier responses will be used to inform NHS 24's future strategy, scope and procurement approach
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS 24 buys IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72), and who usually turns up
NHS 24 has little published record in this market. Frameworks and DPS are left out: they draw different bid counts. Whole-market view: IT services: consulting, software, internet (CPV 72) →
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.
No supplier sizes published for this authority.
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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. The market figure counts awards delivered in Scotland.
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
No winner locations published for this authority. Local means a registered address in 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 50 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.
The market share is a minimum: 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 bid10%
2–330%
4–628%
7+32%
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 estimate69%
Within ±2%22%
Above estimate10%
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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 #1NHS 24 is undertaking a preliminary market consultation to inform the potential…CPV 72Estimate not published
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 72. The comparison uses that group.
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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 105 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid10%
2–330%
4–628%
7+32%
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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 · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 7 Sept 2026, 09:21 BST
- Last source update
- 7 Sept 2026, 09:21 BST
- Authority reference
NHS24/2026/1058- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-084199- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06f30bFind a Tender
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How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
7 Sept 2026 → 27 Nov 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published48 days ago7 Sept 2026, 09:21 BST
- Today25 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expectedin 33 days27 Nov 2026
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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.