Official UK procurement notice
Primary Care Support Services
Authority: NHS England (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS England are conducting pre-market engagement for Primary Care Support Services: Administration Services The Procurement Act 2023 allows market testing and supports contracting authorities and the market to prepare for upcoming procurements. NHS England aims to ensure more effective and efficient procurement processes and intends to engage early and widely with the market to allow opportunities to shape its requirements. The initial aim of the pre-tender market engagement is to make interested parties aware of upcoming tenders for Primary Care Support Services:
- Service one: Administration Services Furthermore, NHS England is keen to use the responses to understand from the market whether there is adequate interest in the proposed procurement activity and whether the market will be in a position to bid for and deliver the specified services. Primary Care Support Services (PCSS) are essential administration services underpinning provision of primary care in England and consists of a range of services to support primary care delivery. The current contract provides a range of administrative and back-office functions supporting primary care contractors (GPs, Pharmacists, Dentists and Opticians) in England. The service lines that the current contract covers are:
- Payment Services (GP, Ophthalmic & Pharmacy contractors)
- GP Pensions Administration Services
- Patient Registration Services
- Medical Records Administrations and Movement Services
- Medical and Controlled Stationary Supplies Delivery Services
- National Performers Lists Administration Services
- Pharmacy Market Entry Administration Services
CPV: Accounting and auditing services · Administrative healthcare services · Development software development services · Miscellaneous health services · Pension services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Above threshold (FTS publication)
- 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
- 22 May 2025, 11:46 BST
- Last source update
- 22 May 2025, 12:39 BST
- Authority reference
C358059- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-024749- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-051d21Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
22 May 2025 → 1 Sept 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published22 May 2025, 11:46 BST
- Market engagement2 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
NHS England are conducting pre-market engagement for Primary Care Support Services: Administration Services Primary Care Support Services (PCSS) are essential administration services underpinning provision of primary care in England and consists of a range of services to support primary care delivery. The current contract provides a range of administrative and back-office functions supporting primary care contractors (GPs, Pharmacists, Dentists and Opticians) in England. The Procurement Act 2023 allows market testing and supports contracting authorities and the market to prepare for upcoming procurements. NHS England will be holding an online webinar on the 03 June 20205 (am) where interested suppliers will gain further insight to the procurement. At this stage, interested suppliers are invited to register their interests for the event by completing the attached webinar registration form and submitting a signed Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) provided by NHS England which can be found in the documents section of this project. Registration for the online event will close on the 2nd June 2025 at 12: 00 hours. Please note that NHS England has limited attendees at the event to 3 participants per organisation. Invites to the event will be sent by 17:00 on the 2nd June 2025 to suppliers which have: 1. Successfully registered their interests by completing and returning the webinar registration contact details table in section 7 of Appendix A: Instructions document; and 2. Successfully completed and returned the signed NDA. The NDA and registration must be uploaded and submitted electronically via the Health Family eCommercial Portal by 12:00 hours on 02 June 2025. Request For Information (RFI) documentation and further instructions will be made available to all eligible suppliers after the webinar via the portal. Please see attached documentation for further information.
- Tender notice expected298 days ago1 Jan 2026, 23:59 GMT
- Contract starts56 days ago1 Sept 2026, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 22 May 2025- Pipeline notice published22 May 2025, 11:46 BSTUK1
- Preliminary market engagement notice published22 May 2025, 12:39 BSTUK2
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
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
- Pipeline notice Pipeline notice on Find a Tender