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Colleague Time Management System

NHS Business Services Authority · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

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Opportunity overview

The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is a Special Health Authority and an Arm’s Length Body of the Department of Health and Social Care. We provide a range of critical central services to NHS organisations (our ‘clients’), NHS contractors, health bodies, patients and the public (our ‘customers’). The purpose of this notice is to inform organisations of a supplier Pre-Market Engagement exercise (PME). The PME is related to the procurement and contract for the provision of a Colleague time Management System ,the main purpose for our CTMS is to support internal users in the following areas of time management: • Recording working hours • Recording flexi leave • Recording overtime The CTMS also assists users in the following areas of time management. That said, our Electronic Staff Record (ESR) is also used to facilitate time management in these areas: • Recording annual leave • Recording sickness absence • Recording special leave • Recording other leave such as volunteering leave It is currently not used to track the time spent on tasks colleague complete during their working hours for the purpose of internal financial costings. Instead, various local tools are used within the organisation to facilitate time recording for financial costings and other purposes at present.The NHSBSA invites you to participate in an RFI for a Colleague Time Management System to further the NHSBSAs understanding of the market. This is a pre-market-engagement exercise. At this stage we are sharing our knowledge and high level requirements in relation to our Colleague Time Management System. Interested parties must register an interest and further details are available via https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. The opportunity reference is C402293. RFI documentation will be issued through the Health Family Portal Tuesday 25th November 2025. The RFI response is due 12 noon Friday 19th December 2025. This is a pre-market-engagement exercise. It is not an invitation to tender or invitation to offer an agreement and will not result in an award of a contract. If you do not wish to take part in this RFI exercise, it will not affect any current or future business with the NHSBSA. Participation in this RFI exercise will not qualify you to provide any services or products to the NHSBSA and will not guarantee an invitation to submit an offer as part of any future procurement exercise. The NHSBSA will not accept any liability for costs incurred by you in participating in this RFI exercise. This invitation has been published on the Find my Tender Service and on Contracts Finder.

Classification

  • CPV48000000 — Software package and information systems
  • CPV48450000 — Time accounting or human resources software package
  • CPV72260000 — Software-related services

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
ocds-h6vhtk-05e893
Status
planning
Above Threshold
Yes
Main Procurement Category
services

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Communication

Future Notice Date
2 Mar 2026, 23:59

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
planning

Suitability

Sme
Yes

Contract period

Ends
17 Jan 2032, 23:59
Starts
18 Jan 2027, 00:00

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UK
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
48000000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Software package and information systems
Entry 2
Id
48450000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Time accounting or human resources software package
Entry 3
Id
72260000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Software-related services

Planning and budget

Documents

Entry 1
Id
076949-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
25 Nov 2025, 15:19

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Status
scheduled
Due
19 Dec 2025, 23:59
Description
The full scope of the engagement is set out within the Scope of this Notice.

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-PPON-PRLZ-1599-JGTT
Name
NHS Business Services Authority

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKC22
Country
GB
Locality
Newcastle upon Tyne
Postal Code
NE15 8NY
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Stella House, Goldcrest Way, Newburn Riverside

Details

Classifications

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

Identifier

Id
PRLZ-1599-JGTT
Scheme
GB-PPON

Contact

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Newcastle upon Tyne · UKC22 · NE15 8NY · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UK · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

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