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title: "National Recruitment Software System"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-054722"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "NHS ENGLAND"
published: "2025-06-11"
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# National Recruitment Software System

Buyer: NHS ENGLAND  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-054722

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## Summary

The procurement process undertaken by NHS England involved the direct award of a National Recruitment Software System contract to Hicom Technology Limited. This initiative, crucial for managing recruitment across NHS staffing groups in the UK, was classified under the "Software package and information systems" category (CPV code: 48000000). The process reached the award stage on 11th June 2025, following a decision to proceed without prior competition due to unique technical requirements. The procurement method was limited and carefully justified, underscoring the necessity for a consistent, interoperable system. The contract, valued at £12,360,000, was signed on 28th May 2025. The system will support recruitment activities locally, regionally, and nationally, thereby ensuring continuity and addressing the administrative challenges faced by NHS recruitment teams.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses specialising in healthcare technology solutions, particularly those capable of providing specialised, integrated recruitment platforms with robust interoperability. Companies with expertise in designing and maintaining bespoke software solutions that meet stringent technical and functional specifications could find alignment with such procurement needs. Despite the competitive limitations cited, innovative enterprises poised to enhance or develop similar systems stand to benefit from this growing sector's demands, especially those that offer technical solutions supporting large-scale, multifaceted recruitment processes within the healthcare industry.

## Notice

Provision of a software platform for use by the Four Nations to facilitate local, regional and national recruitment across the following NHS staffing groups:
- Foundation
- Medical
- Dental
- Pharmacy
- Healthcare Science

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Direct Award for the provision of a software platform for use by the Four Nations to facilitate local, regional and national recruitment.

### Procurement Information

NHS England (NHSE) is required to maintain the provision of a National Recruitment Platform to support Local, Regional and National recruitment across the Four Nations. This platform specialises in the recruitment of the following staffing groups:
- Foundation
- Medical
- Dental
- Pharmacy
- Healthcare Science

There is a clear clinical risk should the national recruitment platform not be maintained and service continuity is of paramount importance. A stable recruitment system is required to ensure delivery of business as usual recruitment processes across the four nations. The wider landscape across national recruitment is changing and with annual increases in application numbers this has created an administrative burden for NHSE England's regional recruitment teams. 

NHSE has commissioned industry leaders to undertake assessments of the market, through discovery exercises, to understand whether there is competition in the market capable of meeting NHSE's Technical requirements. The assessments have considered product disaggregation and wider market analysis. NHSE is currently undertaking an Alpha project to assess options that might allow for the development of alternative products or pre-built systems that will meet all the technical requirements (in Lots or otherwise) that NHSE believes does not exist currently . 
Additionally, previously competed procurements have only resulted in one bidder or one bidder with support from a partner supplier.

At this stage, NHSE has concluded that competition in the market does not exist in the form of a customisable Commercial Off the Shelf product. This is primarily due to the specialist nature of the technical requirements and in particular the need for interoperable functionality with other clinical government recruitment platforms. 
NHSE remains committed to keeping this position under regular review to ensure that the best value for money is delivered.

NHS England commenced negotiations for the direct award of the services with Hicom Technology Limited in December 2024 and is satisfied that the tests permitting the use of the Negotiated Procedure without prior publication (Reg 32(2)(b)(ii) and (iii) PCR 2015) and the Government Commercial Function's Procurement Act 2023 Guidance: Transitional and Saving Arrangements have been met.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/031711-2025 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Goods |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 11 Jun 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 27 May 2025 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £12,360,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS ENGLAND |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South East London |
| Postcode | SE1 8UG |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI45 Lambeth |
| Local authority | Lambeth |
| Electoral ward | Waterloo & South Bank |
| Westminster constituency | Vauxhall and Camberwell Green |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | HICOM TECHNOLOGY |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 48 - Software package and information systems

### Codes

- 48000000 - Software package and information systems

## Release History

- 11 Jun 2025 at 20:08 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/031711-2025

## Notice URLs

- http://www.hicom.co.uk
- https://www.england.nhs.uk/

## Provenance

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