Official UK procurement notice
Single Point of Access Market Engagement
Authority: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe development of an automated digital musculoskeletal (MSK) Single Point of Access (SPA) tool for BHFT's community physiotherapy (MSK Physio), specialist physiotherapy (Community Specialist Service – CSS), integrated pain and spinal service (IPASS) and MSK podiatry.
CPV: Physiotherapy services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1See II.2.14.1 for detail of the market engagement
See II.2.14.1 for detail of the market engagement.<br/><br/>The purpose of this soft market testing exercise is to understand the provider landscape and potential providers who are capable of delivering this solution. The outcome of the soft market engagement will assist BHFT to develop and obtain a sufficiently detailed knowledge of the provider landscape and to refine its requirements and approach to market in order to invite businesses to quote.<br/><br/>The timescales for the market assessment detailed in II.2.7.3 and II.2.7.4 of this notice are estimated.<br/><br/>There is no competition associated with the pre-market engagement. BHFT will liaise with any supplier with suitable experience and service offering, to inform its views of how to structure a potential downstream procurement project. Please ignore II.2.5 Award Criteria.<br/><br/>Once the pre-market engagement concludes, BHFT may take forward a project to develop the required solution under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. Whilst IV.1.1.1 states that restricted procurement procedure will be followed, any downstream procurement project will be sourced via the Competitive Process route under the Provider Selection Regime. Any downstream procurement project will involve multiple award criteria across technical, quality, social value and price criteria.<br/><br/>Participation or non-participation in this soft market engagement shall not prevent any supplier participating in any potential future procurement, nor is it intended that any information supplied as part of this process shall place any supplier at an advantage in any potential procurement process. Additional information: See 'MSK Triage Single Point of Access (SPA) market engagement fact sheet' in the referenced PME document pack. Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BHFT) are seeking to understand the potential to deliver a solution from suppliers that currently deliver digital clinical triage solutions that independently assess and manage patients without human intervention. It is likely that the developed tool sought by BHFT will require registration as a medical device. The developed SPA must be able to receive referrals from primary care, community services and secondary care via eRS in addition to patient self-referral via an online portal that BHFT is developing.<br/><br/>BHFT seeks providers of digital clinical triage services that can assess MSK conditions throughout the body and direct the patient into discrete and specialist MSK services without human intervention. <br/><br/>The level of automated clinical expertise to differentiate between general MSK physiotherapy, specialist MSK services, chronic pain and spinal services during assessment will be significant.<br/><br/>If possible, the tool should be made available in the most common languages relevant to the population of Berkshire – English, Polish, Punjabi, Nepalese and Urdu.
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- Price
- Suitability
This is a Prior Information Notice notice for a health service that falls under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.<br/><br/>We are seeking to understand the potential to deliver a solution from suppliers that currently deliver digital clinical triage solutions that independently assess and manage patient referrals without human intervention.<br/><br/>Participation in the soft market engagement process will be at each supplier's own cost. No expense in responding to this process will be reimbursed by BHFT.
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How Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust buys Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514), and who usually turns up
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’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: Miscellaneous health services (CPV 8514) →
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1 bid13% / 18%
2–338% / 32%
4–638% / 41%
7+13% / 9%
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Below estimate0% / 35%
Within ±2%57% / 59%
Above estimate43% / 6%
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Lot #1See II.2.14.1 for detail of the market engagementCPV 8514No real estimate
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1 bid8%
2–358%
4–625%
7+9%
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| Supplier | Won in this category | Live contracts | Award vs estimate |
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| £690m36 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 9 live · £270m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=16 | |
| £1.0bn31 awards in 36m · last 3 months ago | 4 live · £199m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=8 | |
| £87m25 awards in 36m · last 1 month ago | 1 live · £150k iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=7 | |
The Forward TrustLarge | £146m16 awards in 36m · last 2 months ago | 6 live · £41m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | at estimate n=8 |
| £87m45 awards in 36m · last 6 months ago | 3 live · £41m iPublic contracts this supplier still holds. Its awards whose published end date is still in the future, with their values. Many contracts publish no end date, so this is a floor, not the whole book. Unexpired says nothing about spare capacity. | 5% below n=2 |
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.
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Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Restricted procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Requests to participate open
- 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
- 12 Oct 2026, 12:06 BST
- Last source update
- 12 Oct 2026, 12:06 BST
- Authority reference
PR BHFT 0848- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-096023- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-078580Find a Tender
How to participate & submission route
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- Requests to participate (first stage)
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- Tender submission deadline
- 2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Clarification deadline
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- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
Timeline
12 Oct 2026 → 16 Nov 2026 · 3 dates- Notice published16 days ago12 Oct 2026, 12:06 BST
- Today28 Oct 2026
- Submission deadlinein 4 days2 Nov 2026, 12:00 GMT
- Contract startsin 18 days16 Nov 2026
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Nothing awarded yet- 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
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice; the tender pack is on the portal.