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NHP Health Care Planning Tool SaaS Licence

NHS England

This public procurement record has 4 releases in its history.

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20 Oct 2026 at 13:19

UK7 - Contract Details Notice
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22 Sep 2026 at 09:03

UK6 - Contract Award Notice
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11 Sep 2026 at 13:27

UK6 - Contract Award Notice
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24 Aug 2026 at 13:13

UK5 - Transparency Notice
Summary of the contracting process

NHS England procured a subscription to an enterprise healthcare planning software platform for Wave 1 schemes in the New Hospital Programme. The service manages accommodation schedules, room data sheets, equipment planning and demand data across multiple hospital developments. It supports standardised planning for Hospital 2.0 through shared data governance, audit trails, role-based access, BIM and design-system interoperability, automated validation and assurance. The purchase covers platform licences and standard software support, maintenance, security updates and product enhancements; implementation, configuration, user training and adoption are outside its scope. The service is for NHS England’s national hospital programme, with delivery across the United Kingdom.

The procurement is complete and the contract has been signed. NHS England made a direct award to dRofus AS, the sole supplier selected, on technical grounds: the authority concluded that the specific proprietary platform was required and there were no reasonable alternatives. One lot was used. The contract was signed on 19 October 2026 and runs from 19 October 2026 to 18 October 2027. Its value is £657,720 excluding VAT (£789,264 including VAT). Evaluation was based on the requirement for programme-scale capabilities, including cross-scheme data aggregation and impact analysis, assurance reporting, version control and audit, open API integration and multi-scheme deployment. The agreed service metric requires at least 99.9% software availability, measured monthly.

For suppliers positioning for comparable NHS England requirements, this award shows demand for an enterprise healthcare-planning platform that can support many hospital schemes under consistent programme-wide standards. Credible providers would need to demonstrate secure, centrally governed handling of accommodation, room, equipment and demand data; role-based access, auditability and controlled workflows; and interoperability with BIM and design systems. The selected capability also combined automated validation, assurance reporting, version control, open API integration and scalable multi-scheme deployment. The route used here depended on ownership and control of a specific proprietary platform and its established programme-specific data structures, templates and rules, rather than generic software capability alone. Reliable service operation is also material, with a contractual availability target of at least 99.9%. The award indicates that software supply and support, rather than implementation or training, formed the commercial requirement.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

NHP Health Care Planning Tool SaaS Licence

Notice Description

NHS England (NHSE) has entered into 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 19 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. As set out through the Transparency Notice published 24 August 2026 (ref: UK-14009), and subsequently, a Contract Award Notice published 22 September 2026 (ref: UNHS England UK-14484), NHS England (NHSE) concluded 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). NHSE 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. NHSE 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.

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/099003-2026
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
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Procurement Classification

Notice Type
UK7 - Contract Details 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
£657,720 £500K-£1M

Notice Dates

Publication Date
20 Oct 20266 days ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
13 Aug 20262 months ago
Contract Period
19 Oct 2026 - 18 Oct 2027 6-12 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Complete
Awards Status
Active, Pending
Contracts Status
Active

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

Further Information

Notice Documents

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