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The Health and Occupation Reporting network (THOR)

Health and Safety Executive · Transparency notice on Find a Tender

Tender information last checkedLast checked 30 Sept 2026, 02:02.

Opportunity overview

HSE is reliant on external data to contribute to HSE's annual occupational health statistics, supporting the planning, monitoring, and evaluation of interventions to reduce work-related respiratory and skin diseases. The Health and Occupation Reporting network (THOR) is a voluntary surveillance scheme for work-related ill health. Under this network, specialist doctors are asked to systematically report new cases of work-related ill health in their clinics. Reports are collated and analysed by the Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health, Manchester University. The THOR network consists of 2 specialist reporting schemes SWORD (reports from consultant respiratory physicians) and EPIDERM (reports from consultant dermatologists). This data is crucial for HSE's annual statistics and strategic intervention planning.

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Matched by number
Published award value
£600k
Awarded
Not supplied
Award ID
1
Status
pending
Identifier
GB-COH RC000797
Location
Manchester, UKD33, M13 9PL, United Kingdom

Classification

No classification was supplied.

Lots

  • Lot 1Value not stated

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
T4742
Status
complete
Procurement Method
direct
Procurement Method Details
Direct award
Why this procedure was chosen
Section 41 and paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 of the Procurement Act 2023 to justify the use of direct award in special cases on the basis that there is an absence of competition for technical reasons and there are no reasonable alternatives to those services. HSE asserts its belief that University of Manchester is the only economic operator in the EU that is capable of supporting HSE in respect of National Surveillance of Work-Related Illness in Clinical Settings in accordance with the requirement to maintain their evidential integrity. HSE has previously awarded a contract for work of this nature in July 2012 for the delivery of the same services and University of Manchester and HSL Buxton were the only economic operators to submit a technically compliant bid. HSL Buxton has confirmed that it would not retender if this contract were to be competitively tendered and HSE has no knowledge of any new entrants to the market, nor does it consider that there are any economic operators who did not bid last time that would be capable of meeting its requirements at present and consequently asserts general grounds are satisfied.

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Id
singleSuppliersTechnicalReasons

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
complete

Suitability

Sme
Yes

Published documents

Entry 1
Id
conflictOfInterest
Description
Not published
Document Type
conflictOfInterest

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-PPON-PBXM-4389-TXVZ
Name
Health and Safety Executive

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKD73
Country
GB
Locality
Liverpool
Postal Code
L20 7HS
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Redgrave Court, Merton Road, Bootle, Merseyside

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
publicAuthorityCentralGovernment
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Public authority - central government

Identifier

Id
PBXM-4389-TXVZ
Scheme
GB-PPON

Contact

Organisation 2
Id
GB-COH-RC000797
Name
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Roles

supplier

Address

Region
UKD33
Country
GB
Locality
Manchester
Postal Code
M13 9PL
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Oxford Road

Details

Vcse
Yes
Scale
large

Identifier

Id
RC000797
Scheme
GB-COH

Contact

Additional Identifiers

Entry 1
Id
PHDN-5322-MMHL
Scheme
GB-PPON

Award information

Award 1
Id
1
Status
pending
Has Renewal
Yes
Above Threshold
Yes
Main Procurement Category
services

Items

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UK
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
73000000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Research and development services and related consultancy services

Value

Amount
600,000
Currency
GBP
Including VAT
750,000

Renewal

Description
Extensions on a 1 + 1 basis. Full life contract Value is £1,250,000 inclusive of non-recoverable VAT.

Documents

Entry 1
Id
022626-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK5
Description
Transparency notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
awardNotice
Published
19 May 2025, 13:43

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-COH-RC000797
Name
THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
1
Type
futureSignatureDate
Status
scheduled
Due
1 Jun 2025, 23:59

Related lots

1

Contract period

Ends
31 May 2028, 23:59
Starts
1 Jun 2025, 00:00
Max Extent Date
31 May 2030, 23:59

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Liverpool · UKD73 · L20 7HS · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. ocds-h6vhtk-0516e4-2025-05-19T13:43:55+01:00Transparency notice on Find a Tender ·