Official UK procurement notice
NNHSE1116 - RFI -Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme Support Service
Authority: NHS England North East & Yorkshire Health & Justice (Yorkshire and the Humber) (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNorth of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a care system support organisation hosted by NHS England and is working for and on behalf of NHS England North East & Yorkshire Health & Justice (Yorkshire and the Humber) (the Relevant Authority) and is managing this market engagement exercise for the provision of an Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme Support Service:
The Commissioners require an Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme Support Service to assist the Healthcare and Gymnasium teams within the Adult Prisons in North East & Yorkshire in delivering an ongoing programme of Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation for the patients in their care. It is hoped that outcomes would include improved health and well-being for patients and a reduction in exacerbation, which in turn would reduce the numbers of patients requiring access to secondary and/or specialised services.
The Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme Support Service will develop virtual training packages for use with patients within Prisons, provide training for staff and provide a 'critical friend' / QA service for Prison Healthcare and Gymnasium staff to enable them to support the patients within their care. It is also expected that should there be any changes to national guidance on the delivery of Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation, the virtual training packages and staff training will be updated and disseminated. The contract will be for 2-years in the first instance with a value of £10,000 per annum, and an independent review will also be Commissioned to ascertain the value for money and effectiveness of the service. This review will be utilised to support future decisions as to whether then programme will be continued beyond the lifetime of the initial contract.
The Relevant Authority is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to engage with the market and to gather information in order to gain a better understanding of both the capacity and appetite of the market in delivering the proposed services.
For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this process.
It is important to note that this RFI is not a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any future tender opportunity once the contract notice is published on Find a Tender Service.
It should also be noted that this RFI invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this RFI exercise only, and it is NOT a pre-qualification questionnaire, and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process.
This RFI is intended as an awareness, communication, and information gathering exercise. An expression of interest is no indication of a commitment to participate in the RFI process, nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who express an interest in the RFI exercise.
NECS is utilising an electronic tendering portal (Atamis) to manage this RFI and as such interested individuals and organisations will need to register on the portal to access and return the RFI documentation.
You can register here:
health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗
It is free to register on the portal, which can be accessed at any time of day. Should you have any queries, or have problems registering on the portal, you should contact the e-Tendering provider by email:
Support-health@Atamis.co.uk or phone number 0800 9956035.
Please look for NHSE1116 - RFI - Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme Support Service (Contract Ref: C443540).
The RFI documentation will be accessible from Friday 08 May 2026 and completed RFI responses must be returned by 12.00 noon on Friday 22 May 2026.
Potential providers are to note that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (as amended) does not apply to a future procurement.
CPV: Health services · Health training services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Commissioners require an Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme Support…Planned
The Commissioners require an Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme Support Service to assist the Healthcare and Gymnasium teams within the Adult Prisons in North East & Yorkshire in delivering an ongoing programme of Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation for the patients in their care. It is hoped that outcomes would include improved health and well-being for patients and a reduction in exacerbation, which in turn would reduce the numbers of patients requiring access to secondary and/or specialised services.
The Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme Support Service will develop virtual training packages for use with patients within Prisons, provide training for staff and provide a 'critical friend' / QA service for Prison Healthcare and Gymnasium staff to enable them to support the patients within their care. It is also expected that should there be any changes to national guidance on the delivery of Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation, the virtual training packages and staff training will be updated and disseminated. The contract will be for 2-years in the first instance with a value of £10,000 per annum, and an independent review will also be Commissioned to ascertain the value for money and effectiveness of the service. This review will be utilised to support future decisions as to whether then programme will be continued beyond the lifetime of the initial contract.
The Relevant Authority is issuing this Request for Information (RFI) to engage with the market and to gather information in order to gain a better understanding of both the capacity and appetite of the market in delivering the proposed services.
For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this process.
It is important to note that this RFI is not a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any future tender opportunity once the contract notice is published on Find a Tender Service.
It should also be noted that this RFI invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this RFI exercise only, and it is NOT a pre-qualification questionnaire, and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process.
This RFI is intended as an awareness, communication, and information gathering exercise. An expression of interest is no indication of a commitment to participate in the RFI process, nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who express an interest in the RFI exercise.
NECS is utilising an electronic tendering portal (Atamis) to manage this RFI and as such interested individuals and organisations will need to register on the portal to access and return the RFI documentation.
You can register here:
health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗
It is free to register on the portal, which can be accessed at any time of day. Should you have any queries, or have problems registering on the portal, you should contact the e-Tendering provider by email:
Support-health@Atamis.co.uk or phone number 0800 9956035.
Please look for NHSE1116 - RFI - Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme Support Service (Contract Ref: C443540).
The RFI documentation will be accessible from Friday 08 May 2026 and completed RFI responses must be returned by 12.00 noon on Friday 22 May 2026. Additional information: Potential providers are to note that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (as amended) does not apply to a future procurement.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS England North East & Yorkshire Health & Justice (Yorkshire and the Humber) buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
NHS England North East & Yorkshire Health & Justice (Yorkshire and the Humber)’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: Health services (CPV 8510) →
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Half of these awards have an award date within 59 days of the bid deadline.
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1 bid24%
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4–626%
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Lot #1The Commissioners require an Accredited Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme Support…CPV 8510Published estimate£20k
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1 bid24%
2–333%
4–626%
7+17%
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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
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 8 May 2026, 08:17 BST
- Last source update
- 8 May 2026, 08:17 BST
- Authority reference
NHSE1116 - RFI- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-042211- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0693ffFind a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
8 May 2026 → 1 Aug 2026 · 2 dates- Notice published173 days ago8 May 2026, 08:17 BST
- Tender notice expected89 days ago1 Aug 2026, 00:00 BST
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
Process and specification contact points (1)
- North of England Commissioning Support UnitProcess contact point
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.