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NHS England

Step into Health Services

Business ServicesCPV 79634000
Value£310k
Deadline14 Sept 2026
Published17 Aug 2026
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 17 Aug 202626 days leftCloses 14 Sept 2026
Who to contact
england.commercialqueries@nhs.net

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

How to submit
Open the submissions portal

This procurement will be conducted through the Contracting Authority's e-tendering portal, Atamis: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome User Guide: https://services.atamis.co.uk/docs/Supplier_User_Guide.pdf

The submission route named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£310ktotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£1.6m

This is a large award for Business Services — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 57,319 valued Business Services tenders in our corpus.

When this comes round again

NHS England publishes Business Services work continuously — 440 notices, roughly one every 3 days. This is a stream to watch, not a cycle to wait for.

77% of NHS England’s awards go to a supplier it has used before.

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The brief

NHS England is seeking to appoint a supplier to deliver the Step into Health programme, a national workforce support service that assists members of the Armed Forces community into NHS employment through employer engagement, candidate support, recruitment pathways, mentoring, work placements, communications, stakeholder engagement, and the management of associated programme activities.

What it takes to bid this

1220 daysof bid-team effort
£8.2k£13.7kat typical UK bid-team rates

Typical UK bid effort for the £100k–£1m band — an estimate, not a quote.

Qualify & bid/no-bid ~10% · SQ / PQQ ~20% · Written response ~55% · Review & presentation ~15%

Typical for this category — confirm against the ITT pack

  • Hold at bidProfessional indemnity insurance
  • Show at bidNamed engagement team with CVs
  • Show at bidComparable references / case studies
  • Hold at bidFinancial standing (accounts, often ~2× contract value turnover)
  • Hold at bidInsurance cover (PL / EL, often PI)
  • Show at bidSocial value commitments

Hold at bid = pass/fail conditions of participation. Show at bid = scored in the quality response. Plan for delivery = contract obligations from day one.

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Source & provenance
OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-06e57b
Stage
tender · Open
Source
Find a Tender
Buyer ref
078048-2026
View the original notice on Find a Tender

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source data © Crown copyright.

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