NHP Health Care Planning Tool SaaS Licence

Description

NHS England (NHSE) has entered into a 12-month Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) contract for an enterprise Healthcare Planning Tool to support Wave 1 schemes within the New Hospital Programme (NHP). The platform will provide a secure, structured and centrally governed environment for the management of Schedule of Accommodation data, Room Data Sheets, equipment planning information and industrialisation demand data across multiple hospital developments. The solution will support the delivery of Hospital 2.0 through programme-wide standardisation, data governance, auditability, role-based access controls, interoperability with BIM and design systems, automated validation and enhanced assurance processes. The contract will ensure continuity of an existing digital capability currently being provided through one of NHSE’s delivery partners to NHP, and will enable the contracted platform to operate under direct control of NHP from 19 October 2026. Access by NHP to the service will support ongoing planning, design development, assurance and standardisation activities across Wave 1 hospital schemes. The scope of the contract is limited to SaaS platform licences together with standard software support, maintenance, security updates and product enhancements. Implementation, configuration, user adoption and training activities are not within the scope of the contract. As set out through the Transparency Notice published 24 August 2026 (ref: UK-14009), and subsequently, a Contract Award Notice published 22 September 2026 (ref: UNHS England UK-14484), NHS England (NHSE) concluded that the conditions in Paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the Procurement Act 2023 are satisfied. Due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only the identified single supplier can provide the healthcare planning tool services required by the New Hospital Programme (NHP). NHSE has concluded that there are no reasonable alternatives to the services being procured. While other suppliers may offer software products operating in the same market, dRofus is the only solution that can meet the programme scale requirements essential to this national programme, enforcing Hospital 2.0 across many schemes: aggregation and impact analysis across schemes, programme-wide assurance reporting, version control and audit, open API integration, and scalable multi-scheme deployment. In addition, the supplier owns and operates the HCPT software platform, associated data model, system architecture, configuration, functionality and proprietary intellectual property upon which the capability is based. The requirement is for continued access to, and use of, that specific platform and its associated functionality rather than for a generic healthcare planning software solution. The platform contains programme-specific data structures, workflows, controlled templates, validation rules, governance controls and interoperability capabilities that have been developed and configured, by the supplier via the current contract with an NHSE delivery partner, to support the requirements of NHP and Hospital 2.0. These capabilities are proprietary to the supplier's platform and are not available from alternative suppliers. NHS England therefore considers that, due to an absence of competition for technical reasons, only this single supplier can supply the services required and that there are no reasonable alternatives to those services. NHSE intends to undertake further assessment over the course of the 1-year contract duration to ascertain if there are alternative technical solutions or providers becoming available.