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# NEL Single Point of Access - Ophthalmology and Enhanced Optometry Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nel-single-point-of-access-ophthalmology-and-enhanced-optometry-services-ocds-h6vhtk-065462). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NHS North East London Integrated Care Board: "NEL Single Point of Access - Ophthalmology and Enhanced Optometry Services". Published status: active. Published Value: £500,000. 1 published lot. Recorded submission deadline: 14 Feb 2026, 17:00 GMT. Published submission portal: atamis.co.uk.

## Key Information
- **Status:** ACTIVE (the published submission deadline has passed)
- **Buyer:** [NHS North East London Integrated Care Board](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nhs-north-east-london-integrated-care-board-nhs-qmf)
- **Published Value:** £500,000 (GBP)
- **Submission Deadline:** 14 February 2026 at 17:00 GMT
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Open procedure
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health services
- **Delivery Location:** UKI
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-065462`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nel-single-point-of-access-ophthalmology-and-enhanced-optometry-services-ocds-h6vhtk-065462#tl-md)

## Submission
- **Submission Platform:** [atamis.co.uk](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fatamis.co.uk%2F)
- **How to bid:** https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nel-single-point-of-access-ophthalmology-and-enhanced-optometry-services-ocds-h6vhtk-065462#participate

## Description
North East London (NEL) Integrated Care Board (ICB) is seeking to procure an NEL wide ophthalmology SPOA service that ensures referrals are managed by one provider across the system, serving all our providers equitably with reduced costs, delivering efficiencies and identifying issues to help support the NEL population with targeted and improved education and feedback to referrers.
North East London (NEL) Integrated Care Board (ICB) is looking to procure the SPOA across its seven places (Barking & Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge, Newham, Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets and City and Hackney).
The services need to be able to provide fast access improved pathway to enhance referral processing and clinical triage. The SPOA will facilitate digital enablement and innovations with a dynamic system to coordinate advice and refer, capacity planning and implement patient choice. Thereby reducing the pressure and avoidable referrals to specialist led services.
The SPOA should provide a strong collaboration between primary, optometry, community and secondary care systems as we are looking for a partnership in delivering the best quality service for NEL patients.
The service specification provides details of what will need to be delivered, and we welcome providers who can demonstrate suitable experience of delivering similar services in the community that are both effective and of high quality.
The procurement will be undertaken under the Provider Selection Regime regulations, competitive process. 
Applications are now open from Friday 13th February 2026 with a deadline for applying of the 20th March 2026 17:00. Applications must be made through Atamis.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** active

- **Delivery regions:** UKI

- **Estimated Value:** £500,000
- **Description:** North East London (NEL) Integrated Care Board (ICB) is seeking to procure a NEL wide ophthalmology SPOA service to manage all referrals from optometrists and GPs to ophthalmology services.
The successful provider will work in partnership with commiss...

- **Renewal published:** yes

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F013993-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-02-16T16:17:54.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-31T06:04:29.868Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-065462