Official UK procurement notice
NHSBSA Drug Tariff Solution
Authority: NHS Business Services Authority (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionRequest for Information for the provision of a Drug Tariff Solution. The solution is required to create the Drug Tariff which the NHSBSA produces on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care. The NHSBSA are looking to introduce a flexible solution, underpinning business activities, to enable more agility to react to an ever-changing landscape and future proof the creation and accessing of the Drug Tariff by end users (e.g. pharmacists).
The Drug Tariff outlines:
- what will be paid to pharmacy contractors for NHS services provided either for reimbursement or remuneration
- dispensing rules
- value of the fees and allowances to be paid
- drug and appliance prices paid.
This pre-market engagement exercise is to determine new solutions available to continue to deliver the Drug Tariff to NHSBSA customers while optimising efficiencies.
This invitation to participate in the RFI has been published on the Find a Tender Service and on Contracts Finder.
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The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedProcedure 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
- 24 Oct 2025, 15:26 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Oct 2025, 15:26 BST
- Authority reference
C397038- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-068277- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-05d391Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Oct 2025 → 1 Jul 2027 · 4 dates- Planning notice published371 days ago24 Oct 2025, 15:26 BST
- Market engagement342 days ago21 Nov 2025, 23:59 GMT
The requirement is for a solution which produces the Drug Tariff from importing several data sources (from the NHSBSA CDR (Common Drug Reference) database in xml format, Microsoft Word and PDF documents (for NHS Directions) as well as Excel documents for new content).
At this stage we are seeking high-level input to enable us to assess the market and to inform any future investment and resulting procurement process.
Suppliers who register an interest should provide a written RFI responses by 21st November 2025.
Interested parties must register an interest in this RFI via health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗ (search opportunities using system reference C397038).
Suppliers should note that this RFI is a market research exercise only and it is not an invitation to tender or invitation to offer an agreement.
- Tender notice expected211 days ago1 Apr 2026, 23:59 BST
- Today30 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 243 days1 Jul 2027, 00:00 BST
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Oct 2025, 15:26 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
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