Official UK procurement notice
Procurement of an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Solution
Authority: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionVelindre University NHS Trust (the Authority) wishes to alert suppliers to its intention to hold preliminary market engagement with regards to the potential procurement of an Enterprise Risk Solution to assist in the recording and management of risks across the Authority, ranging from corporate, clinical and project risks.
The Authority intends to procure an enterprise-wide software solution to support strategic and operational risk management. The contract will cover the provision of the platform, configuration, implementation, training, ongoing support, and maintenance.
The solution must comply with NHS information governance, cyber security, and data-protection requirements and support integration with the Authorities existing technology landscape.
The contract duration is expected to be:
Initial term: 5 years
Optional extensions: 2+2 years
The Authority seeks an ERM solution that provides:
- Comprehensive risk register functionality
- Incident and issue reporting
- Real-time dashboards & analytics
- Workflow, approvals & audit trail
- User-role and permission management
- NHS-compliant information governance and security controls
- Integration with existing Authorities systems (where applicable)
- Training and support for end-users and administrators
- Secure hosting and business continuity capabilities
- Project management tools such as schedule risk analysis (Monte Carlo Simulation) or equivalent
- Open architecture and integration into other systems
All suppliers must comply with relevant NHS and statutory requirements, including data-protection legislation and cyber-security standards.
CPV: Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS 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: Software package and information systems (CPV 48) →
How the contest usually goes
Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.
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How often small and medium firms win.
Share of awards where the winner’s size is known.
The counts under this question show how many awards have a known supplier size.
Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.
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How often local firms win similar work.
Winners with a registered address in the delivery region, out of awards with a known address.
Local means the winner is registered in the region where that award was delivered. The market figure counts awards delivered in Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the bid deadline to the award date, on competitions that published both.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards have an award date within 64 days of the bid deadline.
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How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.
Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.
Direct awards or one recorded bid are common here. Check the route before spending time on a bid.
How many bids did past lots attract?
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How many bids past lots received.
Each colour is a bid-count range. Only competed lots with a published count are included.
Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid57% / 8%
2–324% / 45%
4–617% / 33%
7+3% / 15%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
Each colour shows awards below, close to or above the published estimate, one lot at a time.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate50% / 55%
Within ±2%25% / 21%
Above estimate25% / 24%
Assess each lot i
What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
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What past awards tell you about each lot.
See the forecast, this buyer’s earlier suppliers and firms with relevant wins.
No supplier is confirmed as a bidder.
Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list
Lot #1CPV 48No real estimate
This lot lists more than one class in CPV 48. The comparison uses that group.
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 40 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–345%
4–633%
7+15%
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Where the award price may land.
The forecast uses similar awards and the buyer’s estimate. The band covers the middle half of likely prices.
No comparable awards for this lot yet.
A statistical guide from past awards, not a price to bid.
Who has supplied this buyer on similar work? i
Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
A past supplier may not bid again.
No earlier contract of this buyer matches this lot on the published record.
Who could compete for this lot? i
Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
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.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- 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
- 9 Mar 2026, 14:00 GMT
- Last source update
- 14 Apr 2026, 15:26 BST
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-033858- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06656cFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
9 Mar 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 5 dates- Planning notice published229 days ago9 Mar 2026, 14:00 GMT
- Latest notice published193 days ago14 Apr 2026, 15:26 BST
- Market engagement126 days ago19 Jun 2026, 23:59 BST
The Authority wishes to engage with suppliers to:
(i) Develop the Authorities requirement and procurement approach,
(ii) To support the Authority in designing a procurement procedure including conditions of participation and award criteria
(iii) To identify potential suppliers, to supply goods and services, and to inform contractual terms
To achieve effective preliminary market engagement the Authority will hold a supplier day on the 08/05/2026 and 19/06/2026. Initially, eight 45-minute slots will be made available and will be offered on a first come, first served basis. At its sole discretion the Authority may extend the opportunity beyond this dependent upon supplier response, but this is not guaranteed
Interested suppliers should provide confirmation to the following email address:
Please provide confirmation by 7th April 2026 for any materials required in the medium of the Welsh language.
- Tender notice expected52 days ago1 Sept 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today24 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 159 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 9 Mar 2026- Preliminary market engagement notice published9 Mar 2026, 14:00 GMTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published14 Apr 2026, 15:26 BSTUK2
Published amendments (1)
The notice has been updated to provide updated dates for supplier days from 10th April 2026 to 8th May 2026 and 19th June 2026.
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
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender