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NHP Health Care Planning Tool SaaS Licence

NHS England

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24 Aug 2026 at 13:13

UK5 - Transparency Notice
Summary of the contracting process

NHS England is procuring an enterprise healthcare planning software service for Wave 1 schemes in the New Hospital Programme. The requirement is a secure, centrally governed platform for managing accommodation schedules, room data sheets, equipment planning and industrialisation demand across multiple hospital developments in the United Kingdom. It supports Hospital 2.0 through standardisation, data governance, audit trails, role-based access, BIM and design-system interoperability, automated validation and assurance reporting. The scope covers software-as-a-service licences, standard support, maintenance, security updates and product enhancements. Implementation, configuration, user adoption and training are excluded. The service is intended to provide direct programme control and continuity of an existing digital capability for NHS England.

This procurement is complete and was awarded by direct award to dRofus AS, on the basis that only one supplier could provide the required proprietary platform and that there were no reasonable technical alternatives. The single lot is complete and the lot was identified as suitable for small and medium-sized enterprises. The award value is £657,720 excluding VAT, or £789,264 including VAT. The contract period runs from 1 October 2026 to 30 September 2027. A contract signature milestone was scheduled for 17 September 2026. The service is classified as software supply, information systems and electronic data management. NHS England intends to assess whether alternative technical solutions or providers become available during the one-year contract.

This award demonstrates demand for specialist healthcare planning software that can operate at national programme scale across multiple hospital schemes. A credible future competitor would need an established enterprise SaaS platform capable of managing accommodation, room, equipment and industrialisation data in a controlled environment, with strong auditability, version control and role-based governance. It would also need open API integration with BIM and design systems, automated validation, programme-wide reporting, aggregation and impact analysis, and scalable multi-scheme deployment. Experience supporting standardisation and assurance in complex hospital development programmes would be important. The incumbent’s advantage came from proprietary software, data structures, workflows, templates, validation rules and existing programme configuration, so alternatives would need to demonstrate equivalent functionality and continuity.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

NHP Health Care Planning Tool SaaS Licence

Notice Description

NHS England (NHSE) intends to award a 12-month Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) contract for an enterprise Healthcare Planning Tool to support Wave 1 schemes within the New Hospital Programme (NHP). The platform will provide a secure, structured and centrally governed environment for the management of Schedule of Accommodation data, Room Data Sheets, equipment planning information and industrialisation demand data across multiple hospital developments. The solution will support the delivery of Hospital 2.0 through programme-wide standardisation, data governance, auditability, role-based access controls, interoperability with BIM and design systems, automated validation and enhanced assurance processes. The contract will ensure continuity of an existing digital capability currently being provided through one of NHSE's delivery partners to NHP, and will enable the contracted platform to operate under direct control of NHP from 1 October 2026. Access by NHP to the service will support ongoing planning, design development, assurance and standardisation activities across Wave 1 hospital schemes. The scope of the contract is limited to SaaS platform licences together with standard software support, maintenance, security updates and product enhancements. Implementation, configuration, user adoption and training activities are not within the scope of the contract.

Procurement Information

NHS England considers that the conditions in Paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the Procurement Act 2023 are satisfied. Due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only the identified single supplier can provide the healthcare planning tool services required by the New Hospital Programme (NHP). NHS England has concluded that there are no reasonable alternatives to the services being procured. While other suppliers may offer software products operating in the same market, dRofus is the only solution that can meet the programme scale requirements essential to this national programme, enforcing Hospital 2.0 across many schemes: aggregation and impact analysis across schemes, programme-wide assurance reporting, version control and audit, open API integration, and scalable multi-scheme deployment. In addition, the supplier owns and operates the HCPT software platform, associated data model, system architecture, configuration, functionality and proprietary intellectual property upon which the capability is based. The requirement is for continued access to, and use of, that specific platform and its associated functionality rather than for a generic healthcare planning software solution. The platform contains programme-specific data structures, workflows, controlled templates, validation rules, governance controls and interoperability capabilities that have been developed and configured, by the supplier via the current contract with an NHSE delivery partner, to support the requirements of NHP and Hospital 2.0. These capabilities are proprietary to the supplier's platform and are not available from alternative suppliers. NHS England therefore considers that, due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only this single supplier can supply the services required and that there are no reasonable alternatives to those services. NHS England intends to undertake further assessment over the course of the 1-year contract duration to ascertain if there are alternative technical solutions or providers becoming available.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-06ea83
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/080342-2026
Current Stage
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All Stages
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Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK5 - Transparency Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Direct
Procurement Method Details
Direct award
Tender Suitability
SME
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

48 - Software package and information systems

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

CPV Codes

48311100 - Document management system

48613000 - Electronic data management (EDM)

48810000 - Information systems

72268000 - Software supply services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£657,720 £500K-£1M
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
24 Aug 20262 days ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
24 Aug 20262 days ago
Contract Period
1 Oct 2026 - 30 Sep 2027 6-12 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Pending
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NHS England
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
SE1 8UG
Postcode Area
South East London
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI4 Inner London - East
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI45 Lambeth
Delivery Location
Not specified
Local Authority
Lambeth
Electoral Ward
Waterloo & South Bank
Westminster Constituency
Vauxhall and Camberwell Green

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

dRofus AS

Further Information

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