Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 8 Apr 2025, 11:16 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Digital Dictation, Speech Recognition with Generative AI, and Outsourced Transcription

Official notice

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

ServicesAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Nov 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrs 1 moends 29 Dec 2030 · up to 29 Dec 2032 with extensions · starts 30 Nov 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (“UHB”) is one of the UK’s largest NHS Trusts that runs the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham Chest Clinic, Heartlands Hospital, Good Hope Hospital, Solihull Hospital, and various community services across the region, and is one of the highest performing Health organisations in Europe with a proven international reputation for its quality of care, information technology, clinical education and training and research. The trust has 2,366 in-patient beds over 105 wards in addition to 115 children’s beds and 145 day case beds. The trust operates 7,127 outpatients’ and 304 community clinics per week with a workforce of over 20,000 members of staff. UHB is looking to procure up to four solutions, split into three lots. The procurement process will be subject to business case approval and this Pre-Market Engagement Exercise will help form the tender process. The lots are shown below:

  • Lot 1: Digital Dictation
  • Lot 2: Speech Recognition with Generative AI
  • Lot 3: Outsourced Transcription

CPV: Dictating machines · Document management software package · IT software package · Typing, word-processing and desktop publishing services · Voice recognition software development services · Voice recognition software package · Voice-logging system

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1PlannedRenewal 5 yrs 1 moSME
Contract period: 30 Nov 2025 – 29 Dec 2030 (5 yrs 1 mo) · up to 29 Dec 2032 with extensions
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible
Extensions: Extension options published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Services
Notice status
Past planning notice
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
8 Apr 2025, 11:16 BST
Last source update
2 May 2025, 12:37 BST
Authority reference
PROC.08.0827
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-018741
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Dictating machinesDocument management software packageIT software packageTyping, word-processing and desktop publishing servicesVoice recognition software development servicesVoice recognition software packageVoice-logging system
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04fe99 Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

8 Apr 2025 → 30 Nov 2025 · 5 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    8 Apr 2025, 11:16 BST
  2. Latest notice published
    2 May 2025, 12:37 BST
  3. Market engagement
    13 May 2025, 23:59 BST

    Lot 1: Digital Dictation Where UHB references digital dictation, this encompasses the process from a clinician creating a new dictation/letter, through to the document completion with distribution to EDMS, EDT, print and external print. A representation of the as-is process can be seen in the below process map: Lot 2: Speech Recognition with Generative AI With the introduction of speech recognition we intend to transform this process to be more streamlined, needing fewer inputs and leading to a quicker turnaround time for patient letters. A representation of the to-be process can be found in the below process map: The flow using a Generative AI solution has not yet been mapped, as this hasn’t been trialled within the Trust. Following supplier selection, we would be keen to get a pilot up-and-running as soon as possible so the benefits of this process can be realised. UHB Lot 3: Outsourced Transcription If a supplier is only responding to Lot 3 for outsourced transcription, the solution must be system agnostic as our digital dictation supplier will be selected as part of the same procurement exercise. Following this procurement, the intention of UHB is to reduce our spend on outsourcing with the introduction of speech recognition. This will be progressive due to the size and geography of UHB making it impractical to go for a big-bang approach. Suppliers wishing to participate in this market engagement exercise and express an interest in this requirement should respond to the questionnaire via the online form on the Health Family Single eCommercial System Portal (Atamis) by 15:00 on Tuesday 6th May 2025. health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗ Please search for C352502 To View documents please register interest and then navigate "My Proposals and quotes"

  4. Tender notice expected360 days ago
    1 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
  5. Contract starts332 days ago
    30 Nov 2025

Notice history

2 events · 2 releases on Find a Tender · since 8 Apr 2025
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    8 Apr 2025, 11:16 BST
    UK2
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    2 May 2025, 12:37 BST
    UK2
Published amendments (1)

Extension to the deadline date

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 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2GWContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (2)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure