Official UK procurement notice
UHB Ambient Voice Technology Pre-Market Engagement
Authority: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionUniversity Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (“UHB”) is one of the UK’s largest NHS Trusts, operating across multiple hospital sites including Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Heartlands Hospital, Good Hope Hospital, and Solihull Hospital, in addition to a wide range of community services across the region. UHB is recognised as a leading healthcare organisation with an international reputation for quality of care, digital innovation, clinical education, and research.
UHB is seeking to procure a trust-wide Ambient Voice Technology (AVT) solution with Generative AI capabilities to support clinical and operational documentation across a wide range of care settings and business functions. The procurement process will be subject to business case approval.
The Authority is seeking a solution capable of supporting:
- Ambient voice capture
- Speech-to-text transcription
- Generative AI summarisation
- Clinical documentation generation
- Structured template outputs
- Meeting summarisation
- Action extraction
- Letters and document creation
- Integration with UHB’s homegrown EPR (PICS)
- Standalone and embedded deployment models
- Trust-wide rollout across clinical, operational and corporate use cases
This procurement replaces the traditional model of digital dictation, speech recognition, and outsourced transcription with a modern Ambient Voice Technology approach.
The Authority is seeking solutions that are mature and have demonstrable deployment within healthcare environments, preferably within Acute NHS Trusts. Solutions should be live or ready for deployment, with evidence of operational use in comparable settings.
Given the pace of technological advancement in Ambient Voice Technology and Generative AI, the Authority also expects suppliers to demonstrate the ability to evolve their offering over time, respond to emerging NHS requirements, and maintain alignment with market developments. This includes the ability to introduce enhancements, support new use cases, and adapt to changing clinical, operational, and regulatory needs throughout the lifecycle of the contract.
The Authority is therefore interested in solutions that combine proven, deployable capability with the flexibility to accommodate future developments, ensuring the Trust can continue to benefit from advances in Ambient Voice Technology while maintaining service stability and continuity.
Please see the Briefing note within the PME documents for more information.
CPV: Software package and information systems
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1PlannedRenewal
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How University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust buys Software package and information systems (CPV 48), and who usually turns up
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1 bid20% / 16%
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Lot #1CPV 48Published estimate£500k
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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
- 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 Apr 2026, 18:01 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Apr 2026, 18:01 BST
- Authority reference
W173300- FTS notice number
2026/S 000-037794- Latest notice
- Preliminary market engagement notice (UK2)
- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-068b22Find a Tender
How it was run
Official notice- Submission deadline
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Timeline
24 Apr 2026 → 30 Nov 2026 · 4 dates- Planning notice published187 days ago24 Apr 2026, 18:01 BST
- Tender notice expected163 days ago18 May 2026, 23:59 BST
- Market engagement163 days ago18 May 2026, 23:59 BST
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is seeking proposals from vendors to provide Ambient Voice Technology for clinical and operational documentation.
The opportunity is available via Atamis Health Family through C442591.
- Today29 Oct 2026
- Contract startsin 31 days30 Nov 2026
Notice history
1 event · 1 release on Find a Tender- Preliminary market engagement notice published24 Apr 2026, 18:01 BSTUK2
Commercial outcome & contract awards
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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