Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 6 Aug 2025, 10:14 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Digital Triage Primary Care Solutions

Official notice

Authority: Digital Health & Care Wales (Central government)

GoodsAbove thresholdSME suitable
Planned pipeline value£500,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 7 Oct 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 2 yrsends 31 Oct 2027 · starts 1 Nov 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The General Medical Services (GMS) Team in Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) are looking for a digital solution that will at a minimum meet the needs of a General Practice (GP) triage solution that supports patient triage, appointment management, patient communication and business intelligence. The team are undertaking an information gathering exercise regarding what solutions are available in the market.

Suppliers are requested to confirm their interest in participating in this market engagement process by emailing rachel.stirrup@wales.nhs.uk. The process involves the completion and return of a Request For Information (RFI) document, which will be emailed to you on receipt of your expression of interest email.

Completed RFIs must be returned via email to rachel.stirrup@wales.nhs.uk and gms@wales.nhs.uk, no later than 12:00 on Friday 29th August 2025.

It should be noted that this is investigatory work, it is not yet clear whether DHCW will complete a procurement process to award a contract. However, the information obtained during this investigatory stage will inform the decision making process. Following the deadline for RFI responses, DHCW reserve the right to make contact with any interested parties on an individual basis, to clarify or supplement their response.

All dates and contractual information included in this notice are not indicative of estimated or actual dates as part of a procurement plan, as no procurement strategy or plan is in place as yet.

CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · Software package and information systems

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 2 yrsSME
Contract period: 1 Nov 2025 – 31 Oct 2027 (2 yrs)
Delivery: UKEligibility: SME eligible

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
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
6 Aug 2025, 10:14 BST
Last source update
6 Aug 2025, 10:14 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-046404
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and supportSoftware package and information systems
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05822e Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

6 Aug 2025 → 1 Nov 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    6 Aug 2025, 10:14 BST
  2. Market engagement
    29 Aug 2025, 23:59 BST

    As previously detailed, the engagement process involves the completion a RFI document. RFI documents can be obtained by emailing rachel.stirrup@wales.nhs.uk to confirm your interest in participating within this market engagement process.

  3. Tender notice expected386 days ago
    7 Oct 2025, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts362 days ago
    1 Nov 2025

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    6 Aug 2025, 10:14 BST
    UK2

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

Digital Health & Care Wales

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central governmentWelsh devolved regulations apply GB-PPON: PHXM-8593-WBPZ Ty Glan-yr-Afon, Cardiff, Wales, CF11 9ADContact name, email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure