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
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe 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 publishedPipeline 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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No small-firm winners recorded among this authority’s published awards in this sample.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
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Half of these awards have an award date within 62 days of the bid deadline.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid16%
2–331%
4–632%
7+22%
How did awards compare with estimates?
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Below estimate55%
Within ±2%25%
Above estimate20%
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Lot #1CPV 4873Published estimate£1.0m
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1 bid16%
2–331%
4–632%
7+22%
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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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
- 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)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06877eFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
21 Apr 2026 → 1 Apr 2027 · 3 dates- Planning notice published189 days ago21 Apr 2026, 14:23 BST
- Market engagement172 days ago8 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
- Today27 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 154 days1 Apr 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published21 Apr 2026, 14:23 BSTUK2
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 noticeOther public bodies
- NHS Shared Business ServicesProcess contact pointProcuring entityStrategic Procurement Delivery
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