This notice announces an administrative change to an existing contract or market (a contract change notice). No new tender or admission is opened here; see the linked notices below for the original opportunity.
Official UK procurement notice
Procurement for the Provision of One NHS Finance Programme Service
Authority: NHS England (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionOne NHS Finance is a programme aimed at supporting finance professionals in the NHS and develop the capacity of NHS finance departments. It consists of a number of programmes. This contract is for an organisation to support the ONF programme by providing support to committees, events, forums, publications, development programmes and toolkits. We would like to run a tender exercise for this work offering a contract for an initial year (12 months), with the ability to extend that contract for a further +1 year+1 year should the contract holders performance be satisfactory and subject to budget constraints.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1AwardedRenewal
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Administrative change
- 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
- 13 Aug 2025, 12:52 BST
- Last source update
- 14 Jul 2026, 13:37 BST
- Authority reference
C382336- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-066191- Latest notice
- Contract change notice (UK10)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-058700Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
13 Aug 2025 → 14 Jul 2026 · 5 dates- Planning notice published13 Aug 2025, 12:52 BST
- Next notice expected29 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
- Market engagement29 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST
This market engagement exercise is a request for information exercise only with the aim of seeking the views from potential providers and not a confirmation or guarantee that services will be procured. Responses to the questions in this document will help NHS England determine level of interest in delivering potential future services.
Please note that your responses to the following questions do not constitute a tender submission and will not be shared with any other parties.
NHS England is requesting market feedback, to inform the potential procurement of support for the ONE NHS Finance Programme.
In order to assist NHS England with testing their assumptions and proposed service requirements, your responses to the questionnaires below will explore the following areas:
- The draft high level service specification and draft key performance indicators
- Timescales to handover existing services (if required) and mobilise new services)
- Expected financial approach (key cost drivers, how the requirement might be changed to drive better value and factors that influence performance measures and costs)
The responses to the questionnaire may assist the Authority in shaping the requirement to meet the demand.
We ask that interested providers submit responses to the following key questions using the questionnaire template provided. Respondents are requested to specifically address the questions rather than attaching extensive technical or promotional information as such information will not be considered.
Please complete the template and return via the portal by 12:00pm, on Friday 29 August 2025.
The following attachments are available to interested parties to further inform the submission of the questionnaire response. These documents are available for download via the above email address:
- This Market Engagement Questionnaires, including high level draft Service Specification
Please direct any questions via the e-tendering portal.
Search for the opportunity on: health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗ - Procurement for the Provision of One NHS Finance Programme Service Workplan / UK-3451
Or: atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome ↗ - then "view live opportunities".
User Guide:
- Contract starts318 days ago1 Dec 2025
- Latest notice published92 days ago14 Jul 2026, 13:37 BST
Notice history
6 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 13 Aug 2025- Preliminary market engagement notice published13 Aug 2025, 12:52 BSTUK2
- Preliminary market engagement notice published26 Aug 2025, 11:51 BSTUK2
- Contract details notice published29 Jan 2026, 09:57 GMTUK7
- Status changed to complete29 Jan 2026, 09:57 GMT
- Procurement method changed29 Jan 2026, 09:57 GMT
- Contract change notice published14 Jul 2026, 13:37 BSTUK10
Published amendments (1)
Included instructions for registering interest.
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2025-08: 1 release · 13 Aug 2025
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthcare Financial Management AssociationSMEVCSE | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Provision of One NHS Finance Programme Service · Healthcare Financial Management AssociationSMEVCSE
- Signed
- 23 Dec 2025
- Value
- £1,431,200
- Period
- 16 Jul 2026 – 1 Jan 2027 · up to 1 Jan 2029 with extensions
- Status
- active
- Extensions
- The contract is awarded for initial duration of 12 months, with options to extend for two additional 12-month periods (total potential duration of 36 months).
- Options
- The contract is awarded for initial duration of 12 months, with options to extend for two additional 12-month periods (total potential duration of 36 months).
- Change 1 Apr 2026 This element of work represents 14% of the TCV and a change of contractor cannot be made for technical reasons
1 agreed KPI: National Network and Meeting Management
- National Network and Meeting Management, Manage over 140 national and regional meetings annually
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA)Awarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Contract change notice Contract change notice on Find a Tender
- Contract details notice Contract details notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender