---
title: "UHB Enterprise Architecture Tool Suite"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04fd28"
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current_stage: "Planning"
buyer: "UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST"
published: "2025-04-04"
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# UHB Enterprise Architecture Tool Suite

Buyer: UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST  
Current stage: Planning  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04fd28

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## Summary

The University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is currently in the planning stage for the procurement of an Enterprise Architecture Tool Suite. This initiative aims to improve the Trust's understanding of its technology assets and their interdependencies with business processes and data. UHB, one of the largest NHS Trusts in the UK, serves a population of over 2.2 million from four main sites across Birmingham. Classified under IT services (CPV code 72000000), the procurement process is designed to secure services needed to develop and maintain a robust enterprise architecture framework. Interested suppliers must respond to the market engagement questionnaire via the Health Family Single eCommercial System Portal by 13:00 on Friday, 25 April 2025.

This tender presents significant opportunities for IT service providers, particularly those with expertise in enterprise architecture, software development, and data management. Companies equipped with experience in integrating and managing complex IT systems and possessing the capability to replace and enhance cloud-hosted solutions will find this contract particularly beneficial. Businesses that can offer comprehensive enterprise architecture services, including the creation and management of system diagrams, network topology, and data flow diagrams, will be well-suited to compete. Successful engagement with UHB on this project could lead to long-term collaboration and further opportunities within the UK's healthcare sector.

## Notice

University Hospitals Birmingham (UHB) is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing acute and specialist services to a population of over 2.2 million people. UHB operates across four main sites: Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Heartlands Hospital, Good Hope Hospital, and Solihull Hospital, as well as several remote sites. TheTrust is seeking to engage with suppliers interested in its requirement for an Enterprise Architecture Tool Suite to develop an improved understanding of its technology assets and the inter-dependencies between these, its business processes and the data the organisation collects, stores and shares.

### Lot Information

Lot 1

UHB comprises four hospitals and community services across Birmingham, and has more than 900 IT systems, ranging from bespoke data capture applications used by individuals to medical device integrations, enterprise-wide, and cloud-hosted solutions. The estate comprises over 900 servers (physical and virtual) and more than 20,000 desktop and mobile computer devices.
The Trust wishes to replace its existing cloud-hosted Enterprise Architecture Tool Suite containing information about more than 7000 objects and numerous architecture artefacts including system diagrams, network topology diagrams, and data flow diagrams. The Trust wishes to maintain a single repository to form an Enterprise Continuum and develop this further with additional data and diagrams. The Trust has existing access to third-party discovery tools to identify hardware and software assets.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013021-2025 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 4 Apr 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | 3 Apr 2025 |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Planned |
| Lots status | Planned |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BIRMINGHAM NHS FOUNDATION TRUST |
| Locality | BIRMINGHAM |
| Post town | Birmingham |
| Postcode | B15 2WB |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLG West Midlands (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLG3 West Midlands |
| ITL 3 | TLG31 Birmingham |
| Local authority | Birmingham |
| Electoral ward | Edgbaston |
| Westminster constituency | Birmingham Edgbaston |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

## Release History

- 4 Apr 2025 at 10:07 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013021-2025

## Notice URLs

- https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
- https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/

## Provenance

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