{
  "name": "NHS procurement pipeline",
  "description": "Known and expected NHS tender windows with status, value and sector, tracked against primary notices.",
  "publisher": "Glaxtons Consulting Limited",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "licenseLabel": "CC BY 4.0",
  "attribution": "Glaxtons Consulting, https://www.glaxtons.co.uk",
  "url": "https://www.glaxtons.co.uk/data/nhs-pipeline.json",
  "documentation": "https://www.glaxtons.co.uk/data/",
  "dateModified": "2026-10-06",
  "recordCount": 7,
  "disclaimer": "Compiled by Glaxtons Consulting from primary sources and checked on the date shown. Procurement dates and lot structures change. Always verify against the contracting authority's own notice before relying on any figure here for a submission.",
  "records": [
    {
      "id": "rm6399-lot-7",
      "reference": "RM6399 Lot 7",
      "name": "Consultancy and Professional Services, Lot 7 Health and Social Care",
      "buyer": "Government Commercial Agency",
      "status": "open",
      "keyDateISO": "2026-11-09T15:00:00Z",
      "keyDateLabel": "Submissions close",
      "statusNote": "ITT live on the CCS/GCA BravoSolution portal. Clarifications close 3pm 22 October 2026.",
      "value": "Lot 7 £300 million excluding VAT; framework £5 billion excluding VAT",
      "term": "24 June 2027 to 23 June 2031 (estimated)",
      "lots": "Lot 7 Health and Social Care is one of ten lots. Others: Multidisciplinary; Strategy and Policy; Transformation; Finance; HR; Procurement; Infrastructure and Public Services; Environment and Sustainability; Restructuring and Insolvency",
      "portal": "CCS/GCA BravoSolution (Jaggaer)",
      "replaces": "RM6309 Management Consultancy Framework Four (MCF4)",
      "whoItIsFor": "Health and social care consultancies, NHS improvement and clinical service redesign specialists, social care improvement advisers, population health and analytics firms, and the health practices of larger consultancies selling to ICBs, trusts, NHS England, councils and DHSC.",
      "summary": "The GCA consultancy route that reaches NHS bodies and local authority social care alike, scored 90 percent on quality. Up to 500 places across the framework and every lot flagged as suitable for SMEs.",
      "caveat": "The notice records both assessment lines on Lot 7 as quality type, which reads as a drafting quirk rather than a different model. Treat it as 90 percent quality, 10 percent price and confirm in the ITT. Award and contract dates are the GCA's estimates.",
      "link": "/rm6399/lot-7-health-and-social-care"
    },
    {
      "id": "rm6397",
      "reference": "RM6397",
      "name": "Clinical and Non-Clinical Temporary and Permanent Staff",
      "buyer": "Government Commercial Agency (formerly CCS), for the NHS Workforce Alliance",
      "status": "open",
      "keyDateISO": "2026-09-21T14:00:00Z",
      "keyDateLabel": "Submissions close",
      "statusNote": "ITT live on the CCS/GCA Bravo portal.",
      "value": "£2 billion excluding VAT (£2.5 billion including VAT)",
      "term": "Four years from February 2027",
      "lots": "12 lots: Nursing and Midwifery; Medical Staffing; AHP, HSS and Emergency Services; Social Care Staffing; Corporate Functions; IT Professionals and Digital Workers; Legal; Scientific, Technical and Clinical Coding; Estates, Facilities Management and Ancillary; Permanent Recruitment; MSP Neutral Vendor; MSP Master Vendor",
      "portal": "CCS/GCA Bravo Solution (Jaggaer)",
      "replaces": "RM6281 (clinical and healthcare staffing) and RM6277 (non-clinical staffing)",
      "whoItIsFor": "Nursing, medical and AHP agencies, social care staffing providers, non-clinical and IT recruiters, permanent recruitment businesses, and managed service providers bidding neutral or master vendor.",
      "summary": "The single largest NHS staffing route to market, consolidating two frameworks into one. Places are not carried over, so every RM6281 and RM6277 incumbent has to rebid or lose NHS access in 2027.",
      "caveat": "Published summaries differ: most give the deadline as 3pm on Monday 21 September 2026, one gives 22 September. The Find a Tender notice gives the term as 3 February 2027 to 2 February 2031, while ITT summaries give commencement as 18 February 2027. Treat the ITT on the Bravo portal as the only authority and confirm both before you plan around them.",
      "link": "/rm6397-nhs-staffing-framework"
    },
    {
      "id": "nhs-sbs-pscw2",
      "reference": "NHS SBS Public Sector Construction Works 2",
      "name": "Public Sector Construction Works 2 (PS-Works 2)",
      "buyer": "NHS Shared Business Services",
      "status": "expected",
      "keyDateISO": "2026-11-20",
      "keyDateLabel": "Tender notice expected (mid to late November)",
      "statusNote": "Delayed by NHS SBS on 3 September 2026. Tender notice now expected mid to late November 2026, enquiries close 4 December 2026, submissions 8 January 2027, award 20 October 2027 and the framework running 8 December 2027 to 7 December 2031.",
      "value": "£750 million excluding VAT (£900 million including VAT)",
      "term": "Four years, 8 December 2027 to 7 December 2031",
      "lots": "3 lots: Lot 1 Minor Works up to £5m (regional, across 12 geographical areas); Lot 2 Intermediate Works £5m to £15m (regional); Lot 3 Major Works above £15m (national, restricted panel)",
      "portal": "SAP Ariba - a valid DUNS number is required to register",
      "whoItIsFor": "Main contractors, regional builders, refurbishment and fit-out contractors, demolition and civil engineering firms working on NHS estates and the wider public sector estate.",
      "summary": "The NHS estates construction route that sits alongside ProCure. Lot 1 and Lot 2 are regional, which is what makes this reachable for mid-market contractors who cannot compete nationally.",
      "caveat": "The original schedule (notice 7 September 2026, submissions 19 October 2026, framework from September 2027) was withdrawn by NHS SBS on 3 September 2026 and every date on this row is the revised timetable as reported by Construction News and Low Carbon Buildings. It is still pre-notice reporting and will be fixed only when the tender publishes on Find a Tender, so plan against it and diarise against the notice. The delay is a gift to anyone who was starting late: use it for SAP Ariba registration, which takes longer than most contractors expect.",
      "link": "/nhs-sbs-public-sector-construction-works-2"
    },
    {
      "id": "procure24",
      "reference": "P24 / ProCure24",
      "name": "NHS ProCure24 Capital Works Framework",
      "buyer": "NHS England, procured jointly with the Government Commercial Agency",
      "status": "expected",
      "keyDateISO": "2027-01-01",
      "keyDateLabel": "Expected",
      "statusNote": "ProCure23 runs until ProCure24 is established during 2027. No standalone tender window has been dated.",
      "term": "Successor to ProCure23",
      "replaces": "ProCure23 (and, on expiry, RM6088 and RM6267)",
      "whoItIsFor": "Principal supply chain partners and their supply chains delivering NHS capital schemes, plus construction consultancies supporting NHS trusts on major projects.",
      "summary": "The fifth generation of the NHS England ProCure framework, being taken to market inside the GCA construction framework rather than standalone. Contractors who treated ProCure and CWAS3 as separate pipelines need to stop.",
      "caveat": "Because P24 is embedded within the CWAS3 (RM6320) construction framework rather than let separately, a firm that missed the CWAS3 window may find its ProCure route affected. Confirm your position before assuming a second bite in 2027.",
      "link": "/procure-24-application-support"
    },
    {
      "id": "hssf-refresh",
      "reference": "HSSF",
      "name": "Health Systems Support Framework refresh",
      "buyer": "NHS England",
      "status": "expected",
      "keyDateISO": "2027-01-01",
      "keyDateLabel": "Expected",
      "statusNote": "NHS England has signalled a refresh. No application window has been published.",
      "whoItIsFor": "Population health management, analytics, digital transformation and system-redesign suppliers selling to Integrated Care Boards.",
      "summary": "The accreditation route for suppliers selling analytics and transformation into ICBs. Entry is by window, and missing one has historically meant waiting years.",
      "caveat": "Anyone quoting you a firm HSSF re-entry date is guessing. What is worth doing now is the evidence base, because it is the same evidence the refresh will ask for.",
      "link": "/health-systems-support-framework"
    },
    {
      "id": "nhs-sbs-healthcare-ai",
      "reference": "NHS SBS Healthcare AI Solutions",
      "name": "Healthcare AI Solutions",
      "buyer": "NHS Shared Business Services",
      "status": "awarded",
      "keyDateISO": "2027-03-01",
      "keyDateLabel": "Awards expected",
      "statusNote": "Submissions closed 23 June 2026. Awards expected March 2027; framework runs 12 May 2027 to 11 May 2035.",
      "value": "£900 million",
      "term": "12 May 2027 to 11 May 2035",
      "whoItIsFor": "AI suppliers in diagnostics, predictive analytics, operational efficiency, robotics and AI consultancy selling into the NHS.",
      "summary": "Missing this one is recoverable, and that is the point most suppliers miss. It is an open framework under the Procurement Act 2023, which means it must reopen to new suppliers during its term rather than closing for eight years.",
      "caveat": "An open framework has to admit new suppliers at defined points. The work now is being ready for the first reopening rather than writing this off until 2035.",
      "link": "/sectors/ai-and-data-centres"
    },
    {
      "id": "sbs10516-radiopharma",
      "reference": "SBS10516",
      "name": "Radiopharmaceutical Products",
      "buyer": "NHS Shared Business Services",
      "status": "awarded",
      "keyDateISO": "2029-01-04",
      "keyDateLabel": "Current term ends",
      "statusNote": "Awarded September 2025. Current term runs 5 January 2026 to 4 January 2029.",
      "value": "£150 million excluding VAT (£180 million including VAT)",
      "term": "5 January 2026 to 4 January 2029",
      "lots": "Lot 1 Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiopharmaceutical Products; Lot 2a Technetium and Krypton Generators; Lot 2b Gallium Generators",
      "whoItIsFor": "Radiopharmaceutical manufacturers and distributors, PET-CT and molecular imaging suppliers, and theranostics businesses entering the UK market.",
      "summary": "A closed field of two appointed suppliers on the national framework, which is precisely why the live NHS England PET-CT and imaging procurements and the devolved-nation equivalents matter more to a challenger than SBS10516 itself.",
      "caveat": "The national framework being closed until 2029 does not mean the market is closed. Diagnostic imaging and theranostics capacity is being procured through NHS England programmes and separately across the four nations, on their own timetables.",
      "link": "/nhs-tender-writing"
    }
  ]
}