Find a TenderPlanned procurementPreliminary market engagement notice
Published 21 Apr 2026, 14:23 BST

Official UK procurement notice

NHS Counter Fraud Authority (CFA) - Case Management System

Authority: NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHS & healthcare)·On behalf of: NHS Shared Business Services

Goods
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48) Delivery: UK
Planned pipeline value£1,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected Date not publishedfrom the planned procurement notice
Contract term 5 yrsends 31 Mar 2032 · starts 1 Apr 2027

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The NHS Counter Fraud Authority (NHSCFA) requires a solution that will be used by 450 users who work for different health and government organisations with the appropriate access and control permissions. It needs to be able to:

  • Increase scalability of licences should there be a business need. The Licences must include the ability to collect and then disseminate data to third parties.
  • Create fraud/crime allegation reports that can be developed by users and then be promoted to investigations and the ability to create investigations and add allegation report and intelligence.
  • Capture investigative activity undertaken as part of criminal investigations: record, retain, review, reveal activity notes, tasks, reasonable lines of enquiry, key investigative events (arrests, searches, interviews, court appearances etc) decision making, outcomes (criminal offences, internal and external disciplinary, financial outcomes), nominal data (people, subjects, addresses, telephone number, emails, bank accounts, organisations and vehicles), statements, exhibits, unused material, financial investigation and intelligence and risk assessment/checklists.
  • Have assessment, sanitisation and actioning functionality that allows for the management of an investigation or case from the beginning of the process, including the ability to have them endorsed at or by tasking with rationale and then transfer to operational teams with all relevant intelligence and evidence.
  • To manage disclosure (CPIA) and create and update prosecution bundles submitted to Crown Prosecution Service. MG9 witness list and statement bundle; MG12 exhibit list and exhibit bundle; MG6 disclosure schedules can be generated and submitted; other MG forms can form part of a prosecution file submission to Crown Prosecution Service by direct a Two Way Interface or similar integration, or export functionality. Functionality to populate other forms in the MG suite.
  • Information exchange with the CPS by exporting case files and exhibits to their systems, support email notifications from system disclosure.
  • Issue and manage task workflows, data requests, assigned lines of enquiries, updates via a local tasking and coordination process. Should have information and activity recording, to illustrate new tasking and to highlight when actions have, or indeed have not, been completed by target date.
  • Record, sanitise, manage, and disseminate 3x5x2 intelligence (including financial intelligence) reports to internal, external users and third-party intelligence organisations. Manage confidential sources and ability to capture pieces of information from external sources.
  • The solution should be able to record Financial Investigation activity in terms of Proceeds of Crime (2002) investigations and proceedings as well as manage disclosure (CPIA) and create and update prosecution bundles submitted to Crown Prosecution Service. Centrally it needs to capture Fraud Risk (Prevention) Assessments with the ability to disseminate across users to communication fraud risks across the NHS. Information management reporting needs to have capability for all record data, including time, resource, and cost management.
  • Different levels of configuration and customisation are required that are available to admin users within the system. It should have the ability to easily change the status of a person from subject to witness and vice versa. The solution must allow users to delete or archive data in accordance with NHSCFA internal retention schedule. The solution should facilitate marking records following the Government Security Classifications Policy.
  • The solution must incorporate into the design the ability to hold any forms required during managing cases, such as investigations plans, disclosure strategy and any associated documents, and allow their searchability.)
  • The solution should have the ability to RAG rate operational fraud risk activity as part of the ongoing review process. The system must have the ability to rapidly allocate and report upon a risk for any assessment recorded, this could for example be a person, an organisation, or a particular investigation.

CPV: Security software package

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Planned 5 yrs
Contract period: 1 Apr 2027 – 31 Mar 2032 (5 yrs)
Delivery: UK

Who is likely to bid for this lot ↓

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

How NHS Counter Fraud Authority buys Security software package (CPV 4873), and who usually turns up

NHS Counter Fraud Authority’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: Security software package (CPV 4873) →

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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 buyerNHS Counter Fraud Authority · all categories
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: 0 of 4 known-size awards · market: CPV 4873 · UK-wide, n=39
0 of 428%

No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.

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.

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

Last 36 months.

Buyer: 4 of 4 known-location awards · market: CPV 4873 · UK-wide, n=28
4 of 425%

Most of this buyer’s recorded winners were registered in 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: division 48 · UK-wide, n=243
—62 days

Half of these awards have an award date within 62 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 2 of 2 procurements with awards had no recorded rival · market: CPV 4873 · UK-wide, n=48
2 of 252%

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?

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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 buyerNo bid counts published
The market377 lots with bid counts · division 48 · UK-wide
16% had one bid
Market · select a colour for counts
1 bid16%
Market: 59 of 377 lots with published bid counts.
2–331%
Market: 117 of 377 lots with published bid counts.
4–632%
Market: 119 of 377 lots with published bid counts.
7+22%
Market: 82 of 377 lots with published bid counts.

How did awards compare with estimates?

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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 buyerNo estimate-and-award pairs published
The market232 lots with estimate and award · division 48 · UK-wide
55% below estimate
Market · select a colour for counts
Below estimate55%
Market: 128 of 232 lots with an estimate and award.
Within ±2%25%
Market: 57 of 232 lots with an estimate and award.
Above estimate20%
Market: 47 of 232 lots with an estimate and award.
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Assess each lot
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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 487360 monthsPublished estimate£1.0m
Expected competition
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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 377 past lots.

A forecast, not a list of bidders.

—No model forecast yet16% chance of a single bid
Past bids on 377 similar lots
1 bid16%
59 of 377 similar past lots received 1 bid (16%).
2–331%
117 of 377 similar past lots received 2–3 (31%).
4–632%
119 of 377 similar past lots received 4–6 (32%).
7+22%
82 of 377 similar past lots received 7+ (22%).
Comparable past lots usually drew 4 bids.
Commercial price forecast
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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 £1.0m, 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
Goods
Notice status
Planned procurement
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
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
21 Apr 2026, 14:23 BST
Last source update
21 Apr 2026, 14:23 BST
FTS notice number
2026/S 000-036143
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
Security software package
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06877e Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

21 Apr 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates
  1. Planning notice published189 days ago
    21 Apr 2026, 14:23 BST
  2. Market engagement172 days ago
    8 May 2026, 23:59 BST

    The engagement process is through online submission of a Market Engagement Questionnaire (MEQ) by the engagement deadline.

    Interested Suppliers can access the MEQ and a truncated version of the Specification of requirements via the SAP Ariba Platform link published below.

    Please download the MEQ, read and complete by the deadline above. Please also download and read the Specification for details of the service required by NHSCFA.

    Link below

    portal.us.bn.cloud.ariba.com/dashboard/public/app… ↗

  3. Today
    27 Oct 2026
  4. Contract startsin 154 days
    1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    21 Apr 2026, 14:23 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

2 public bodies on the notice

NHS Counter Fraud Authority

Contracting authorityPublic authority - sub-central government GB-PPON: PZYP-1949-WBBQ 7th Floor, HM Government Hub, 10 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, London, London, E14 4PUContact email

Other public bodies

  • NHS Shared Business ServicesProcess contact pointProcuring entityStrategic Procurement DeliveryGB-COH: 5280446GB-PPON: PLML-1365-ZXZM London , England, LondonContact email

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure