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NQB Effective Safe Staffing Evidence Reviews

Health services
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Published value
£95,000
Submission deadline 12 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
Lots published5
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Tenderline Synopsis: NHS England: "NQB Effective Safe Staffing Evidence Reviews". Published status: active. Published value: £95,000. 5 published lots. Recorded submission deadline: 12 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityNHS EnglandScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
Closed
12 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£95,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: NHS England
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Derived from OCDS awards & bid statistics
Published history for NHS England. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
Not availableInsufficient comparable data
Requires at least 5 comparable procedures
Competition Density
22.8Bids / Report
7.7% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationModerate Concentration
Anna FreudTop vendor: 29.6% of attributable value
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 859 active published awards; 13 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Historical Awarded Suppliers With This Authority:
Supplier NameHistoric AwardsAttributable GBP Value
Anna Freud1 win£5,862,540
Anglia Ruskin University1 win£4,809,159
NHS Shared Business Services Limited1 win£4,393,727
Pearson Professional Assessments Limited1 win£4,374,320
Timewise Foundation CIC1 win£166,667
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityNHS England
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statusactive
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published8 Dec 2025, 11:36 GMT
Last source update8 Dec 2025, 11:36 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationHealth services
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-05f08f
What is being bought
NHS England has been commissioned by the National Quality Board (NQB) to oversee the development of a contemporary suite of improvement resources for safer staffing. The programme will update the existing improvement resources and will write brand new safe staffing resources via working groups chaired by strategic influencers and attended by subject matter experts. There are five focuses for this Safe Staffing programme, and they will be split into Lots. Lot 1: The Children & Young People's Critical Care Services Lot 2: The Community & District Nursing Services Lot 3: Operating Theatres Lot 4: Children & Young People's Community Services Lot 5: Neonatal Services
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Published value updated to £95,000
    8 Dec 2025, 11:36 GMT
  2. Status changed to active
    8 Dec 2025, 11:36 GMT
  3. Official notice release published
    8 Dec 2025, 11:36 GMT
  4. Submission deadline changed to 12 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
    8 Dec 2025, 11:36 GMT
  5. Buyer information updated
    8 Dec 2025, 11:36 GMT
Lots and requirements (5)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    The Children & Young People’s Critical Care Services
    active
    Published value£19,000
    This evidence review will be to support safe staffing in Children and Young People’s Critical Care Services in NHS hospitals. The scope includes both intensive and high dependency care delivered within discrete locations such as Intensive Care Units (ICU), High Dependency Units (HDU) or combined/co-located units. The guidance will focus on critical care service provision at Level 3, though Level 2 will be considered as appropriate.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
  • Lot 2 · #2
    The Community & District Nursing Services
    active
    Published value£19,000
    This evidence review will be to support safe staffing in NHS community services and will consider clinical establishment setting, approval and deployment from the team leader of the community service to the board of directors. Community health teams support people with complex health and care needs to live independently for as long as possible. Services are delivered in people’s homes, including care homes, but also in community hospitals, intermediate care facilities and clinics.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
  • Lot 3 · #3
    Operating Theatres
    active
    Published value£19,000
    This evidence review will be to support safe staffing in Operating Theatres in NHS hospitals in England, including surgical perioperative and postoperative services. It will consider clinical establishment setting, approval and deployment from the multidisciplinary team across surgical and perioperative pathways.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
  • Lot 4 · #4
    Children & Young People’s Community Services
    active
    Published value£19,000
    This evidence review will be to support safe staffing in NHS children and young people’s (CYP) community services and will consider clinical establishment setting, approval and deployment from the team leader of the community service to the board of directors. CYP Community health teams support young people with complex health and care needs to live independently for as long as possible. Scope includes services delivered in people’s homes, in community hospitals, intermediate care facilities and clinics.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
  • Lot 5 · #5
    Neonatal Services
    active
    Published value£19,000
    This evidence review will be to support safe staffing in NHS neonatal services over the whole pathway of care for newborn babies, ranging from intensive care through to community outreach. Scope includes wherever neonates may also be cared for – i.e. in infant and children’s wards areas in specialist children’s hospitals or district general hospitals.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    8 Dec 2025, 11:36 GMT
  2. Submission deadline
    12 Jan 2026, 12:00 GMT
Commercial outcome and competition
AwardsNo award published
ContractsNo contract published
Bid statisticsNo aggregate bid statistics published
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

NHS England

Contracting authority GB-PPON-PDPT-3135-BWWY
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Documents (1)
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