Official UK procurement notice
Welsh Pre-Operative Digital System
Authority: Digital Health & Care Wales (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionDigital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) is undertaking a preliminary market engagement exercise in relation to an intended procurement for an all-Wales Pre-Operative Digital System.
DHCW is exploring the market for a national digital solution to standardise and modernise the pre-operative assessment process across NHS Wales. Current pre-operative assessment arrangements are fragmented, with variation across Health Boards and a combination of paper-based processes and local digital solutions. This creates delays, duplication of effort, limited data sharing, and can contribute to late cancellations and underutilised theatre capacity.
The proposed solution is intended to support early health screening at the point of listing for surgery, enable risk stratification, support remote pre-assessment where appropriate, improve patient experience, and provide structured data to support audit, benchmarking, and service planning across Wales. Interoperability with existing NHS Wales systems and data platforms will be a core requirement.
The Authority is seeking a solution that is able to, as a minimum:
- Be delivered on an all-Wales basis to support consistent processes, data sharing and regional working.
- Support completion of a national health screening questionnaire when a patient is listed for surgery, with responses immediately available to clinical and administrative staff (e.g., via dashboards).
- Support risk stratification based on questionnaire outputs to assist with appropriate site selection and timely progression through the pathway.
- Enable patients to complete the questionnaire in multiple settings, including at home and in clinical environments.
- Support digital inclusion so that lack of access does not prevent data collection,risk stratification, or access to information and support.
- Capture and store data in a structured format suitable for use in national data repositories and for visibility to staff involved in the pre-surgical pathway (including those not directly using the solution).
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Other community, social and personal services · Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedPipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How Digital Health & Care Wales buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
Digital Health & Care Wales’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 package and information systems (CPV 48) →
How the contest usually goes
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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 Wales (Cymru).
A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Wales (Cymru).
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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 36 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid18% / 8%
2–355% / 45%
4–69% / 33%
7+18% / 15%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Where winning prices landed against estimates.
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Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Below estimate33% / 55%
Within ±2%67% / 21%
Above estimate0% / 24%
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Lot #1Published estimate£5.0m
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How many bids this lot may attract.
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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 40 past lots.
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1 bid8%
2–345%
4–633%
7+15%
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Where the award price may land.
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No comparable awards for this lot yet.
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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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.
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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
- 10 Mar 2026, 14:51 GMT
- Last source update
- 10 Mar 2026, 14:51 GMT
- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-021393- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06667bFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
10 Mar 2026 → 1 Jan 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published226 days ago10 Mar 2026, 14:51 GMT
- Market engagement212 days ago24 Mar 2026, 23:59 GMT
DHCW will run a structured, voluntary preliminary market engagement process. Suppliers are invited to express interest by email, following which DHCW will issue the Supplier Briefing document and the Pre‑Operative Assessment (POA) – Electronic System Requirements.
An online supplier engagement event will be held via Microsoft Teams on Wednesday 25th March 2026 at 9:30am. Following the market engagement session, DHCW will offer optional one‑to‑one (1‑1) online clarification sessions with individual suppliers, each lasting 45 minutes, scheduled consecutively and concluding by 5:00pm on the same day. These sessions will be used to clarify points arising from the engagement event and will take place before the submission of written feedback.
Suppliers will then be invited to submit written feedback by 12:00pm (midday) on 10th April 2026. Feedback will be used to inform and refine DHCW’s requirements and procurement approach. Participation is voluntary and will not be a condition of, or confer any advantage in, any future procurement process.
To participate, suppliers should submit their expression of interest by email to Laura Panes, Strategic Commercial Manager [email protected] by 12:00pm on 24th March 2026.
- Tender notice expected174 days ago1 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 70 days1 Jan 2027
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published10 Mar 2026, 14:51 GMTUK2
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