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NHS Urgent & Emergency Care (UEC) Managed Telephony Services

NHS England · NHS and health

In brief

NHS England has announced plans to buy telecoms work. This is an early notice: there is nothing to bid on yet, but it tells you a tender may follow.

The notice does not state a value.

The contract runs for 5 years, starting 1 January 2029.

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 117 awards in the last 12 months).

What the notice says

NHS England is undertaking further preliminary market engagement to inform the potential development of a future procurement for NHS 111, 119 and 999 National Managed Telephony Infrastructure Services pending a procurement for the required and related services, anticipated to be conducted during 2027/28. For the purposes of the engagement, the services are separated into the following Lots. Lot A – Hosting and Routing (Inbound Services) Lot B – Contact Centre as a Service (CCaaS) - Cloud Services This stage of the preliminary market engagement invites interested parties to submit their response to a Request For information (RFI). Participation in this preliminary market engagement is voluntary and non-binding, not a commitment to procure, not part of any formal evaluation and not a condition of participation in any future procurement. No supplier will be advantaged or disadvantaged by choosing to participate or not participate. Any future procurement (if progressed) will be conducted in line with applicable public procurement legislation. The estimated contract dates are not defined at this stage; therefore the dates indicated in the Notice are for illustrative purposes only.

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 014178-2026
  2. Preliminary market engagement notice · UK2, notice 066445-2026

About the buyer

NHS EnglandLast 12 months

Procurements

1187

Awards

476

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From notice 014178-2026 on Find a Tender, first published 17 February 2026, last updated 14 July 2026. We last checked for changes on 28 September 2026.