Official UK procurement notice
RFI - Child Digital Health Services
Authority: NHS England (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionTo inform any potential formal procurement, NHS England is conducting this market information-gathering exercise. This document outlines the background and our proposed criteria for procurement of multi-disciplinary teams within the Children’s Digital Health Services team. In summary, the purpose of this exercise is to:
- Validate and affirm requirements: Determine whether the market can deliver against our requirements and meet our programme’s needs.
- Inform budgeting: Help determine an appropriate budget range for any potential solution.
- Sourcing options: gathering information on potential routes to market.
- Understand delivery approaches: Gain insight into how delivery models and teams can be adapted to support any contracting model.
- Explore options: Learn about other approaches, adaptations or success criteria to existing requirements that can help us to achieve our ultimate objective.
N.B
Please note that the estimated contract start and end dates are subject to change.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Miscellaneous business and business-related services · Software development services · Software maintenance and repair services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS England buys Software-related services (CPV 7226), and who usually turns up
NHS England’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. Frameworks and DPS are kept out: they attract a different number of bids. Whole-market view: Software-related services (CPV 7226) →
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.
Here, local means registered in Greater London (authority’s region).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered in Greater London.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 27 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 bid24% / 0%
2–338% / 17%
4–619% / 0%
7+19% / 83%
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 estimate41% / 57%
Within ±2%51% / 25%
Above estimate8% / 18%
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 7226Published estimate£110bn
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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 90 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
1 bid8%
2–332%
4–631%
7+29%
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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
- Services
- 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
- 5 Jun 2026, 13:12 BST
- Last source update
- 5 Jun 2026, 13:12 BST
- Authority reference
C451248- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-053329- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Not published
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06aeb5Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
5 Jun 2026 → 1 Jul 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published138 days ago5 Jun 2026, 13:12 BST
- Market engagement106 days ago6 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
Suppliers interested in this opportunity are requested to complete the Request for Information (RFI) document related to Child Digital Health Services.
Please remember that this is a preliminary market engagement and not a competitive tender. This process is being carried out in accordance with the principles outlined in the introduction to the RFI document, and its primary aim is to inform future decision-making.
The RFI document and questionnaire can be found on Atamis by searching for "C451248 RFI – Child Digital Health Services". To register on the NHS England’s e-Tendering portal and to access this opportunity, please go to:
health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗.
You can then search for the opportunity and access any further information.
Clarification questions and responses must be submitted via the NHS England’s e-Tendering portal, Atamis.
A webinar will be held on Tuesday 16/06/2026 at 14:00 to 15:00 (BST) for 1 hour to further explain the requirements and aims of the programme. To book a slot for the webinar, please submit your details using the link below:
www.events.england.nhs.uk/events/child-digital… ↗
The deadline for submitting questions relating to this RFI prior to Market Engagement Event is 17:00 11/06/2026. NHSE will aim to respond to questions submitted before this deadline, during the Market Engagement Event.
The overall deadline for submitting questions relating to this RFI will be 12:00, 17/06/2026.
This preliminary market engagement exercise is due for return by 17:00, 06/07/2026.
If you experience any difficulties accessing the documents, please write to [email protected]
- Today21 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 253 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published5 Jun 2026, 13:12 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 (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Preliminary market engagement notice Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender