Competition with a shortlist
Competitive procedure with a selection stage: suppliers were shortlisted before being invited to bid.
Key facts
- Buyer
- NHS England · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Kainos Software Ltd SME
- Value
- £9,900,000
- Procedure
- Call-off from a framework agreement
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- Yorkshire and the Humber
- Official notice
- View on Contracts Finder
- Timeline
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- Contract date24 Sep 2026
- Published9 Oct 2026Published 15 days after the contract date
Description
Contract for the provision of the following services for the Virtual Hospital (VH) programme Alpha Development Phase 2: Digital Definition, DevOps, End to End Development and Data Management Services. This contract can also be used to support a number of short term/time bound/outcome based statements of work across related initiatives. To address the significant challenge to improve planned (elective) care performance and drive productivity improvements, as outlined in The Elective Reform Plan and The 10 Year Plan, the Virtual Hospital Programme is working to establish a new, NHS owned, national digital elective care provider that focusses solely on delivering elective care virtually. It will offer an expanding range of end-to-end specialist elective care services, as a choice for all patients across England. The digital-first entity will deliver patient care unconstrained by geographical boundaries, offering the ability to better align clinical capacity with patient demand. Patient p…
About the supplier
Kainos Software Ltd: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company NI019370).