Step into Health Services
The procurement contact named on the official notice.
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.
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.
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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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
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.
Make the case to bid
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Free to start. Named contacts come from published notices; the strategy is generated from the buyer’s news, accounts and people.
The full intelligence dossier
Our agent reads NHS England’s accounts, hunts live signals, finds the people who decide — and hands you a bid strategy plus a go-to-market influence plan, including what your team should post this week. You approve every paid step.
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- OCID
- ocds-h6vhtk-06e57b
- Stage
- tender · Open
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Buyer ref
- 078048-2026
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