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Published 23 Mar 2026, 16:08 GMT

Official UK procurement notice

University Hospitals Birmingham Learning Management System PME

Official notice Competition analysis

Authority: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)

ServicesAbove threshold
Sectors: Education & Training (80) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£270,000pipeline notice, not a live tender · 1 value update
Tender notice expected 1 Jul 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 31 Mar 2030 · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is seeking proposals from vendors to provide a modern, secure, and inclusive Learning Management System (LMS) that integrates with existing NHS systems and supports a blended learning approach. The solution should enhance user experience, streamline administration, and provide robust reporting.

The opportunity is available via Atamis Health Family through C433916.

health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗

CPV: E-learning services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 3 yrs
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2030 (3 yrs)
80420000 E-learning services

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published

How University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust buys E-learning services (CPV 8042), and who usually turns up

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation 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: E-learning services (CPV 8042) →

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How the contest usually goes

Winner shares use published awards; bid and price charts use contested lots.

Question for the bid
This buyerUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust · division 80
The marketE-learning services (CPV 8042)
What to do with it
How often do SMEs win?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 3 of 7 known-size awards · market: CPV 8042 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=10
43%50%

Small firms have won here. Neither number says whether you qualify; it describes who has been winning.

How often do local suppliers win?
i

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 West Midlands (authority’s region).

A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 0 of 1 known-location awards · market: CPV 8042 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=9
0 of 10%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered outside the region where that award was delivered.

How long to a decision?
i

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.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: no decision dates published · market: CPV 8042 · UK-wide, n=10
—41 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 41 days of the bid deadline.

How often single-bid or direct?
i

How often work is awarded with no recorded rival.

Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.

The market share is a minimum: some awards have no bid count.

Thin markets produce this too; it is not proof of a tailored specification.

Last 36 months.

Buyer: exactly 7 of 8 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 8042 · West Midlands (authority’s region), n=22
88%77%

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?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyer10 lots with bid counts · all categories
20% had one bid
The market24 lots with bid counts · CPV 8042 · UK-wide
8% had one bid
Buyer / market · select a colour for counts
1 bid20% / 8%
Buyer: 2 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 2 of 24 lots with published bid counts.
2–310% / 29%
Buyer: 1 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 7 of 24 lots with published bid counts.
4–640% / 25%
Buyer: 4 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 6 of 24 lots with published bid counts.
7+30% / 38%
Buyer: 3 of 10 lots with published bid counts. Market: 9 of 24 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

i

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.

Last 36 months.

This buyerToo few to chart: 4 lots with estimate and award, 5 needed · all categories
The market20 lots with estimate and award · CPV 8042 · UK-wide
60% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate60%
Market: 12 of 20 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%20%
Market: 4 of 20 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20%
Market: 4 of 20 lots with an estimate and award.
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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.

Open a lot for its forecast, this buyer’s previous supplier and possible competitors, from published award history, not a bid list

Lot #1CPV 804236 monthsPublished estimate£270k
Expected competition
i

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 57 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet9% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 57 similar lots
1 bid9%
5 of 57 similar past lots received 1 bid (9%).
2–339%
22 of 57 similar past lots received 2–3 (39%).
4–628%
16 of 57 similar past lots received 4–6 (28%).
7+25%
14 of 57 similar past lots received 7+ (25%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
i

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.

—No model forecast yet
No comparable awards on record for this lot’s category yet. The published estimate is £270k, and the forecast stays empty until the market has a record to read.

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.

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.

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
23 Mar 2026, 16:08 GMT
Last source update
24 Mar 2026, 13:10 GMT
Authority reference
PROC.08.0987
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-026801
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
E-learning services
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0671c8 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

23 Mar 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published215 days ago
    23 Mar 2026, 16:08 GMT
  2. Market engagement196 days ago
    10 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST

    This is the first stage of engagement for UHB's LMS system. The expected outcomes are:

    Scope the marketplace more comprehensively

    Understand which solutions are available

    Share expected outputs and gain feedback on suitability

    Use information provided for final decision on route to market

    Ascertain if any innovation is available

    Receive indicative costings

  3. Tender notice expected114 days ago
    1 Jul 2026, 23:59 BST
  4. Today
    24 Oct 2026
  5. Contract startsin 159 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

4 events · 3 releases on Find a Tender · since 23 Mar 2026
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Mar 2026, 16:08 GMT
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    23 Mar 2026, 16:11 GMT
    UK2
  3. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    24 Mar 2026, 13:10 GMT
    UK2
  4. Published value updated to £270,000
    24 Mar 2026, 13:10 GMT
    was £150,000
Published amendments (2)

Atamis/Health Family reference not included to submit responses

Further value added to contract value

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

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PWVL-6877-BXXV Mindelsohn Way, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2WBContact email

Official documents & specifications (3)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure