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Board Paper Management System

NHS Business Services Authority · NHS and health

In brief

NHS Business Services Authority has announced plans to buy IT and software work. This is an early notice: there is nothing to bid on yet, but it tells you a tender may follow.

The estimated value is £45,000 excluding VAT.

The contract runs for 2 years, up to 3 years with extensions, starting 2 May 2026.

Built from the notice's own fields. Always check the official notice before you bid.

Can I win this?

Competition

Typical: a median of 4 bids per contract for this buyer (from 15 awards in the last 12 months).

What the notice says

NHSBSA require support for the Board Paper Management System. The NHSBSA Corporate Secretary Team, working with the Chief Executive’s Office and Executive Assistant Team, manages the administration of Board and senior governance meetings, including the NHSBSA Board, the Audit and Risk Management Committee (ARC), the Remuneration and Nominations Committee (RemCo), and other senior management forums. This includes agenda management, minute taking, decision recording, action tracking, and the quality control, distribution, and archiving of meeting papers. Meeting papers are confidential and are distributed via a Board Paper Management System, which controls access and enables members to…Read the full description
NHSBSA require support for the Board Paper Management System. The NHSBSA Corporate Secretary Team, working with the Chief Executive’s Office and Executive Assistant Team, manages the administration of Board and senior governance meetings, including the NHSBSA Board, the Audit and Risk Management Committee (ARC), the Remuneration and Nominations Committee (RemCo), and other senior management forums. This includes agenda management, minute taking, decision recording, action tracking, and the quality control, distribution, and archiving of meeting papers. Meeting papers are confidential and are distributed via a Board Paper Management System, which controls access and enables members to review, analyse, and annotate documents in advance. The requirement is to procure A cloud-based document/board management system delivered as SaaS, which aligns well with UK public sector and NHS procurement practice. Which supports secure creation, management, distribution, and archiving of meeting papers, with features such as workflows, version control, approvals, agenda generation, access controls, and reporting. The system must support secretariat functions while also providing Board and Committee members with an intuitive, effective way to review and analyse meeting information. To access the RFI documentation, please register an account on ATAMIS, the NHSBSA Health Family Single eCommercial System, as per the link below. https://atamis-1928.my.site.com/s/Welcome The opportunity will appear on the live opportunities page. The title and reference will be 'W218941 [Pre-Proc/RFI] Board Paper Management System' Reference number is W218941 All communication will be managed using the Messaging system via Atamis. If there are any service issues, please speak to the Atamis service desk in the first instance. Otherwise please contact our team: commercialservicesteam@nhsbsa.nhs.uk

How to bid

  1. Read the full notice on Find a Tender, including any tender documents it links to.
  2. Register your organisation on the Central Digital Platform (through Find a Tender) if you have not already. Suppliers need to be registered to take part in procurements under the Procurement Act 2023.
  3. Follow the submission instructions in the notice; it does not name an e-tendering portal.

Timeline

  1. Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 001646-2026

Last time this was bought

Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) System

Awarded
7 October 2025
Value
Not stated, or split across lots
Bids
5

Matched on NHS Business Services Authority, the type of work and the title; it may be a related contract rather than the same one. Check the notice to be sure.

About the buyer

Procurements

62

Awards

38

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From notice 001646-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 8 January 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.