Official UK procurement notice
The Health and Occupation Reporting network (THOR)
Authority: Health and Safety Executive (Central government)
HSE is reliant on external data to contribute to HSE's annual occupational health statistics, supporting the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of interventions to reduce work-related respiratory and skin diseases. The Health and Occupation Reporting network (THOR) is a voluntary surveillance scheme for work-related ill health.
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHSE is reliant on external data to contribute to HSE's annual occupational health statistics, supporting the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of interventions to reduce work-related respiratory and skin diseases. The Health and Occupation Reporting network (THOR) is a voluntary surveillance scheme for work-related ill health. Under this network, specialist doctors are asked to systematically report new cases of work-related ill health in their clinics. Reports are collated and analysed by the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Manchester University. The THOR network consists of 2 specialist reporting schemes SWORD (reports from consultant respiratory physicians) and EPIDERM (reports from consultant dermatologists). This data is crucial for HSE's annual statistics and strategic intervention planning.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedCommercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER1 Jun 2025 – 31 May 2028 · up to 31 May 2030Extensions: Extensions on a 1 + 1 basis. Full life contract Value is £1,250,000 inclusive of non-recoverable VAT. | £600,000 | — | Standstill |
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Direct award
- Legal basis
- UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 19 May 2025, 13:43 BST
- Last source update
- 19 May 2025, 13:43 BST
- Authority reference
T4742- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-022626- Latest notice
- Transparency notice (UK5)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0516e4Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- Single Suppliers Technical Reasons
- Published justification
Section 41 and paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 to justify the use of direct award in special cases on the basis that there is an absence of competition for technical reasons and there are no reasonable alternatives to those services.
HSE asserts its belief that University of Manchester is the only economic operator in the EU that is capable of supporting HSE in respect of National Surveillance of Work-Related Illness in Clinical Settings in accordance with the requirement to maintain their evidential integrity.
HSE has previously awarded a contract for work of this nature in July 2012 for the delivery of the same services and University of Manchester and HSL Buxton were the only economic operators to submit a technically compliant bid. HSL Buxton has confirmed that it would not retender if this contract were to be competitively tendered and HSE has no knowledge of any new entrants to the market, nor does it consider that there are any economic operators who did not bid last time that would be capable of meeting its requirements at present and consequently asserts general grounds are satisfied.
Notice history
2 events · 1 release on Find a Tender · since 19 May 2025- Transparency notice published19 May 2025, 13:43 BSTUK5
- Contract signature expected1 Jun 2025, 23:59 BSTscheduled
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTERAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications (1)
Official links; attachments are not copiedNotices published for this procedure
- Transparency notice Transparency notice on Find a Tender