Find a TenderPast planning noticePreliminary market engagement notice
Published 11 Apr 2025, 14:35 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Statistical Process Control (SPC) Data Management Software System

Official notice

Authority: NHS Blood and Transplant (Central government)

GoodsAbove thresholdSME suitable
Sectors: Software Packages & ERP (48)IT Services & Software (72) Delivery: Delivery location not published
Planned pipeline value£319,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 2 Jun 2025from the planned procurement notice
Contract term 3 yrsends 30 Nov 2028 · starts 1 Dec 2025

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The objective of NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is to save and improve lives with the aim of being the best organisation of our type in the world. Procurement of a Statistical Process Control (SPC) Data Management Software System contributes to meeting these objectives. The SPC Data Management Software System must support data entry and reporting to allow both single datum and combined data analysis and review. The System must provide functionality to ensure data integrity and audit trail. The minimum system functionality will include the ability to build data sets by secure manual data entry to the system. NHSBT objective is to automate data handling wherever possible with system expected to have functionality to analyse datasets generated by data transfer to and from other NHSBT IT systems.

CPV: IT software package · Software package and information systems · Statistical software development services · Statistical software package

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record
Legal basis
UKPGA · 2023/54 Procurement Act 2023
Procurement category
Goods
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
11 Apr 2025, 14:35 BST
Last source update
11 Apr 2025, 14:35 BST
Authority reference
C353618
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-014673
Latest notice
Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
Classification (CPV)
IT software packageSoftware package and information systemsStatistical software development servicesStatistical software package
Delivery area
Not published
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0501ab Find a Tender

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

11 Apr 2025 → 1 Dec 2025 · 4 dates
  1. Planning notice published
    11 Apr 2025, 14:35 BST
  2. Market engagement
    2 May 2025, 23:59 BST

    Prior to commencing a formal procurement process and to help inform our strategy/requirements, NHSBT would like to consult the market. It is our intention to invite those organisations who express an interest in this notice to a supplier engagement meeting to be held on 9th May 2025 (date subject to change). Please express your interest by no later than 5pm on 2nd May 2025 to rowena.thomas@nhsbt.nhs.uk. There is no guarantee that a formal procurement process will be launched as a result of this early market engagement exercise, nor that any contract(s) will be placed. No remuneration or compensation etc will be paid to organisations who take part in this early market engagement exercise. Suppliers should take part in this process only on the basis that they fully understand and accept this position.

  3. Tender notice expected
    2 Jun 2025, 23:59 BST
  4. Contract starts330 days ago
    1 Dec 2025

Notice history

1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender
  1. Preliminary market engagement notice published
    11 Apr 2025, 14:35 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

NHS Blood and Transplant

Contracting authorityPublic authority - central government GB-PPON: PDBY-6395-VWBP 500 North Bristol Park, Bristol, South West, BS34 7QHContact name, email, phone

Official documents & specifications (1)

Official links; attachments are not copied

Notices published for this procedure