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OpenStage · planning

Health Research Authority

Data Service Delivery Partner

IT ServicesCPV 72300000
Value£3.0m
Deadline
Published19 Feb 2026
RegionNationwide
Who to contact
Laura Heal
commercial@hra.nhs.uk

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£3.0mtotal contract value
median £120k
this tender£0£3.5m

This is a large award for IT Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 36,449 valued IT Services tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

The Authority is seeking a Data Delivery Partner to set up good data practice foundations in HRA and to progress data-related activities in relation to our ongoing strategic Research Systems transformation programme.

The Data Service project is not a transformation programme in itself; we are looking to use supplier expertise to set up the service with the intention of the service eventually moving into a business-as-usual state managed in-house by the HRA.

We currently envisage the engagement of a Delivery Partner who will develop and manage the strategic overview of the Data Service, and provide resources as appropriate to deliver objectives via a Statement of Work process.

This market engagement exercise is intended to achieve the follow aims: 1) Inform and align the HRA's requirements with industry capability and processes for procurement of the required solution.

2) Provide evidence that there are solutions available that meet the HRA's needs, to enable procurement activity to proceed.

3) Develop a procurement strategy that will deliver best value for money.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

We currently envisage the engagement of

We currently envisage the engagement of a Delivery Partner who will develop and manage the strategic overview of the Data Service, and provide resources as appropriate to deliver objectives via a Statement of Work process.

02

2) Provide evidence that there are solutions

2) Provide evidence that there are solutions available that meet the HRA's needs, to enable procurement activity to proceed.

03

3) Develop a procurement strategy that

3) Develop a procurement strategy that will deliver best value for money.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-065869
Stage
planning · Planning
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
015350-2026
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