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title: "NHSX Market Engagement Questionnaire for Digital Pharmacy, Optometry, Dentistry, Ambulance and Community (PODAC) - Optometry Services"
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# NHSX Market Engagement Questionnaire for Digital Pharmacy, Optometry, Dentistry, Ambulance and Community (PODAC) - Optometry Services

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/nhsx-market-engagement-questionnaire-for-digital-pharmacy-optometry-dentistry-ambulance-an-ocds-h6vhtk-030003). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NHSX: "NHSX Market Engagement Questionnaire for Digital Pharmacy, Optometry, Dentistry, Ambulance and Community (PODAC) - Optometry Services". Published status: planned. Planned Pipeline Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** PLANNED (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NHSX](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nhsx-nhs-t48nt)
- **Planned Pipeline Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Not published
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Custom software development services, Medical software development services, Software package and information systems, Software programming and consultancy services, Systems analysis and programming services
- **Delivery Location:** UK
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-030003`

## 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/nhsx-market-engagement-questionnaire-for-digital-pharmacy-optometry-dentistry-ambulance-an-ocds-h6vhtk-030003#tl-md)

## Description
NHSX are conducting Market Engagement with interested Suppliers to investigate the current market capabilities to develop possible solutions to shape the digital technology solutions available to Dental Services as part of NHSX's Digital Pharmacy, Optometry, Dentistry, Ambulance, and community (PODAC) programme.  Interested Suppliers are invited to complete a questionnaire that has been designed to develop an understanding of the current maturity of Suppliers in the market and the ability to meet the digital PODAC capabilities. The questionnaire and further detail on the digital PODAC capabilities are available via the Intend e-procurement system.  This engagement is an information gathering exercise only. It will help inform the PODAC commercial strategy and any future procurement thinking and is not a procurement exercise in itself.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** planned
- **CPV codes:** 48000000, 72212180, 72230000, 72240000
- **Delivery regions:** UK

- **Description:** Most of the primary eye care in England is provided by optometrists in high street optical practices, conducting more than 13 million NHS sight tests across England per year and detecting any early signs of eye disease. 
The project aims to understan...

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F030924-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-12-13T11:32:19.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-29T15:34:59.544Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-030003