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Primary Care Support Services

Accounting and auditing services
Administrative healthcare services
Development software development services
+2 more
Location not published
Published value
£350,000,000
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
Generated from official OCDS record
Tenderline Synopsis: NHS England: "Primary Care Support Services". Published status: planned. Published value: £350,000,000. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityNHS EnglandScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
planned
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)£350,000,000
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: NHS England
Market Analytics
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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 Unpublished data stays unknown.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
Statusplanned
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published22 May 2025, 12:39 BST
Last source update22 May 2025, 12:39 BST
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationAccounting and auditing services, Administrative healthcare services, Development software development services, Miscellaneous health services, Pension services
Delivery areaLocation not published
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-051d21
What is being bought
NHS 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
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Official notice release published
    22 May 2025, 12:39 BST
  2. Published value updated to £350,000,000
    22 May 2025, 11:46 BST
  3. Status changed to planned
    22 May 2025, 11:46 BST
  4. Official notice release published
    22 May 2025, 11:46 BST
  5. Buyer information updated
    22 May 2025, 11:46 BST
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    planned
    Published valueNot published
    The source published no individual title or description for this lot.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Pipeline notice
    22 May 2025, 12:39 BST
  2. Procedure published
    22 May 2025, 12:39 BST
  3. engagement
    2 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST · scheduled
    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.
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)
Official links; attachments are not copied
Related procedures (0)
No data
No related procedures published
Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationaleNot published