Official UK procurement notice
Health and Social Care Cyber Supplier Assessment Capability – Preliminary Market
Authority: NHS England (NHS & healthcare)
NHS England is undertaking preliminary market engagement to understand how the supplier market could support the future delivery of a Health and Social Care (H&SC) Cyber Supplier and Third Party Risk Management capability. Our ambition is to develop a national capability, available to all health and social care organisations, that delivers a more consistent and scalable approach to managing cyber risk associated with third-party suppliers across health and social care.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS England is undertaking preliminary market engagement to understand how the supplier market could support the future delivery of a Health and Social Care (H&SC) Cyber Supplier and Third Party Risk Management capability.
Our ambition is to develop a national capability, available to all health and social care organisations, that delivers a more consistent and scalable approach to managing cyber risk associated with third-party suppliers across health and social care. As part of this work, NHS England is developing a H&SC Cyber Third Party Risk Management Standard, against which relevant suppliers are expected to be assessed.
This market engagement will begin with a supplier webinar, followed by a Request for Information (RFI). It gives suppliers an opportunity to help shape this new national capability and the supporting assessment standard. Insights gathered from this exercise will a potential procurement process planned for early to mid-2027. Please note, any figures quoted are early-stage indications only.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · IT software development services · Software package and information systems
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From the published notice- Framework period
- 3 yrs from 1 Apr 2027
The lotProcurement structure
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Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS England buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up
NHS England’s published record next to the market for the same work. Compared with other frameworks and DPS only. Whole-market view: Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221) →
How the contest usually goes
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1 bid15% / 60%
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7+44% / 20%
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Lot #1CPV 7221Published estimate£5.0m
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1 bid28%
2–317%
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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
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Nov 2026, 14:26 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Nov 2026, 14:27 GMT
- Authority reference
C491809- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-108066- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-07bbcfFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
13 Nov 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published1h ago13 Nov 2026, 14:26 GMT
- Today13 Nov 2026
- Market engagementin 48 days31 Dec 2026, 23:59 GMT
Suppliers interested in this opportunity are requested to register to attend the launch webinar on 26th November (11am- 12pm). At this session we will explain in detail the approach and requirements and how you can engage in the next phases of dialog with us. We will set out the RFI timelines and requirements and give you the opportunity to ask questions.
To find out more about the content we will be covering, and to register your place, please follow this link:
[events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4d4d15c9-f79a-… ↗]
If you experience any difficulties accessing registering, please contact [email protected]
- Contract startsin 138 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 13 Nov 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Nov 2026, 14:26 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Nov 2026, 14:27 GMTUK2
Published amendments (1)
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Commercial outcome & contract awards
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- No contract published
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Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender