Official UK procurement notice
NHP Digital Innovation Healthcare Solutions for Airedale NHS Foundation Trust - New Hospital Programme
Authority: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)·On behalf of: AGH SOLUTIONS LIMITED
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionAiredale NHS Foundation Trust ("the Trust") is progressing its Securing the Future (StF) programme, a Wave 1 scheme under the national New Hospital Programme (NHP).
This initiative represents a significant strategic opportunity to modernise the Trust's estate and transform clinical delivery models in line with the Hospital 2.0 design principles.
As an early pathfinder site, the Trust is positioned to influence and contribute to the development of future hospital standards and digitally enabled care environments.
As the programme moves into the next phase of design development, the Trust is undertaking structured early market engagement to explore how innovative digital technologies and integrated solutions can support the delivery of Hospital 2.0 objectives, notably the transition to single‑patient‑room models of care. The Trust is particularly interested in solutions that can address the following priority areas:
- Enhancing staff-patient communication:
enabling patients to communicate their needs effectively and enabling staff to manage and prioritise tasks efficiently and safely across single‑room environments.
- Supporting staff coordination across enlarged ward footprints: facilitating real‑time collaboration, communication, and staff location to improve workflow efficiency across expanded clinical areas.
- Strengthening patient and clinical safety:
enabling continuous or event‑based monitoring, improving response times and reducing unnecessary alarms, while mitigating the risk of alarm fatigue.
- Optimising patient flow and operational management: supporting end‑to‑end patient movement within the hospital and enabling effective coordination with community services to improve throughput and discharge efficiency.
To support this engagement, the Trust will host a virtual market engagement event at 10:30am on 23 April 2026. This session will outline the Trust's objectives, provide further context regarding the StF programme, and describe the thematic areas where market insight is sought.
The briefing will be delivered by the Securing the Future programme team.
Kindly be advised that, owing to anticipated attendance numbers, participation may be restricted to a maximum of two representatives per organisation.
Following the event, the Trust will invite participants to provide structured feedback to help inform its understanding of available technologies, market capability, potential operating models, and integration approaches. Information gathered will support the Trust's future strategic planning and may inform the development of any subsequent procurement approach.
Details of how to submit feedback will be provided during the event.
For the avoidance of doubt, this activity constitutes early market engagement only. It does not form part of any procurement process, does not commit the Trust to undertake a procurement exercise, and does not confer any advantage in relation to any future competition undertaken by the Trust under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 or the Procurement Act 2023.
CPV: Beds for medical use · Communications control system · Design-modelling services · Electronic message services · Health services · Hospital beds · Information technology services · Monitoring and control services · Patient-monitoring system · Scheduling and productivity software development services · Sensors · Signage · +4 more
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Airedale NHS Foundation Trust buys Programming services of packaged software products (CPV 7221), and who usually turns up
Airedale 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) →
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Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in the region where that award was delivered.
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1 bid4%
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Lot #1CPV 7221No real estimate
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1 bid10%
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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.
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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
- 18 Mar 2026, 13:19 GMT
- Last source update
- 18 Mar 2026, 13:19 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-024592- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-066d89Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
18 Mar 2026 → 22 Apr 2026 · 3 dates- Planning notice published225 days ago18 Mar 2026, 13:19 GMT
- Contract starts211 days ago1 Apr 2026, 00:00 BST
- Market engagement189 days ago22 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
Interested organisations are invited to register for the market engagement briefing via the following link:
REGISTRATION LINK -
events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a8787ff7-ecab-… ↗
Deadline for registration is 5pm - 22 April 2026
Should the event become oversubscribed, the Trust reserves the right-acting reasonably and in the interests of fairness and proportionality-to limit attendance to a maximum of two representatives per organisation. A recording of the completed webinar will subsequently be made available on the Securing the Future (StF) programme webpage:
WEBSITE LINK -
www.airedale-trust.nhs.uk/about-us/securing-th… ↗
For the avoidance of doubt, this notification constitutes early market engagement only. It does not initiate a procurement process, does not form part of any selection or evaluation exercise, and does not create any obligation on the Trust to undertake a procurement. Participation in this engagement will not confer any advantage in any future competitive process.
If the Trust elects to commence a formal procurement in connection with this project, a separate Contract Notice will be issued in accordance with the applicable legislation (the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and/or the Procurement Act 2023, including their transitional provisions).
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published18 Mar 2026, 13:19 GMTUK2
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
2 public bodies on the noticeOther public bodies
- AGH SOLUTIONS LIMITEDProcess contact pointProcuring entityWholly owned subsidiary of ANHSFT and managing procurement agent
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