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Strategic Commissioning Development Programme 26/27 & 27/28

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BuyerNHS England
Statusplanned
Deadline29 Jun 2026
Value£9,300,000
Published11 May 2026

What is being bought

NOTICE UPDATE This notice has been updated to reflect 3 changes: 1. To invite you to take part in a survey, which can be accessed at the following link: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=slTDN7CF9UeyIge0jXdO48SOvXw2z_VOmkU53XebJU1URElCQzVXV1VOT05EMFpON0VLM09FQVc1Ni4u&route=shorturl 2. To extend the deadline for response to 22 May 2026. 3. To update the estimated value of the contract to £9,300,000 (excl VAT) Delivering the NHS 10-Year Plan depends fundamentally on restoring and strengthening commissioning. It will require commissioners with the capability, authority and confidence to reshape services, challenge existing models of provision and use every lever to drive change ICBs are now stewards of over £130 billion of NHS funding, with an average system responsible for around £5 billion each year. This unprecedented scale, coupled with the new multi-year planning and financial framework, provides a renewed opportunity to manage risk differently; to pool resources, shift investment upstream, and reshape local markets. NHS England want to establish a national Strategic Commissioning Development Programme (SCDP) for 2026/27–2027/28 and this notice is to highlight a potential forthcoming procurement for a consortium of partners to assist the design and delivery of the action learning programme as a key part of the wider Strategic Commissioning Development Programme. This external consortium will blend deep NHS credibility, advanced analytics, commercial acumen and real-world commissioning expertise with the ability to translate learning into tangible system change at scale. A draft specification is also being issued as part of the early notification which can be accessed by registering on the e-procurement portal.

Categories

Education and training services 80000000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanned
Value£9,300,000
Contract periodFrom 25 Aug 2026 to 24 Aug 2028
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Education and training servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 80. The category anchor is Education and training services (80000000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 801,5933 median · 63.7 average (340 of 1,593 with a bid count)4.5 average (364 of 1,593 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Same buyer82Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)9912.5 median · 12.5 average (2 of 99 with a bid count)11.5 average (2 of 99 with named award suppliers)Not published

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Price-outcome signal

Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimelightTouch
Covered byNot published
Submission policyallowed
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-06801d
Latest release ID042799-2026
Latest release timestampMon May 11 2026 08:17:33 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodopen
Procurement method detailsOpen procedure
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: end2026-06-29T12:00:00+01:00
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadline2026-06-15T12:00:00+01:00
Award period: startNot published
Award period: end2026-08-24T23:59:59+01:00
Submission method detailshttps://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
Submission languagesen
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£9,300,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
11 May 2026planningUpdate042799-2026
10 Apr 2026planning032876-2026

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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