Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 6 May 2025, 13:30 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Integrated Care Record (ICR)

Official notice

Authority: Digital Health & Care Wales (Central government)

GoodsAbove threshold
Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 1 Feb 2026from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 10 yrsends 1 Aug 2036 · starts 1 Aug 2026

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) are conducting market engagement to obtain further information on product availability to meet the requirement of an Integrated Care Record (ICR) across NHS Wales.

The Connecting Care Team in DHCW as part of the ICR project are looking for a digital solution that will at a minimum, meet the objective, to ensure that patients and citizens benefit from access to health and care information, regardless of where it is created or stored, while adhering to data protection and information-sharing policies and legislation.

Interested suppliers are requested to confirm their interest in participating in this market engagement process by emailing jemma.edwards4@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 jemma.edwards4@wales.nhs.uk, no later than 12:00 on Wednesday 21st May 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

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 May 2025, 13:30 BST
Last source update
6 May 2025, 13:30 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-019094
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-050d1e Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

6 May 2025 → 1 Aug 2026 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    6 May 2025, 13:30 BST
  2. Market engagement
    21 May 2025, 23:59 BST

    As previously detailed the engagement process involves the completion a RFI document. RFI documents can be obtained by emailing jemma.edwards4@wales.nhs.uk to confirm your interest in participating within this market engagement process.

  3. Tender notice expected268 days ago
    1 Feb 2026, 23:59 GMT
  4. Contract starts88 days ago
    1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    6 May 2025, 13:30 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