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The Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) is seeking to appoint a Strategic Digital Delivery Partner to support the delivery of its Digital Transformation Programme. This procurement is for the provision of managed digital delivery services and does not include the replacement of CITB's strategic web content management platform. CITB has adopted Umbraco as its strategic CMS and has invested significantly in modern digital capabilities built on Umbraco and Microsoft technologies. The successful supplier will provide the multidisciplinary delivery capability, specialist expertise, governance, support and continuous improvement services required to maximise this investment and deliver CITB's strategic objectives. The supplier will operate as a long-term strategic partner, supporting the design, delivery, operation, enhancement and optimisation of CITB's public-facing digital services. For more information about this opportunity, please visit the eSourcing portal at: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Peterborough:-Systems-consultancy-services./39PJ4C3E2D To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/39PJ4C3E2D

Norfolk County Council (NCC) is seeking to award a contract for Technology Enabled Care (TEC) and Virtual Care. NCC is integrating Technology Enabled Care (TEC) and Virtual Care into care planning, meeting the requirements of the Care Act 2014 to strengthen prevention, promote independence, and deliver person‑centred, strengths‑based support, shifting the focus from providing long-term care packages to providing solutions that improve outcomes for residents. The new service will support residents, through the use of technology, to stay independent in the place they call home. Full details of the requirement can be found in the Service Specification, which forms a Schedule to the Terms and Conditions.

Stowmarket Town Council invites tenders for ICT Managed and Consultancy Services The invitation to tender is for a comprehensive range of ICT services comprising: • ICT Managed Services covering the full delivery and support of ICT solutions, including supply and installation, system configuration and management, ongoing support (both on-site and remote), health checks, MIS support, and staff training. • ICT Consultancy Services providing expert advice and specialist expertise across the full spectrum of ICT strategy and delivery, from connectivity, cloud solutions, safeguarding, and cyber security, through to project management, cost modelling, risk management, digital strategy development, disaster recovery, and innovation. The services provided by the supplier shall ensure that the Town Council can access both hands-on ICT service provision and expert consultancy support to meet the Town Council's strategic and operational needs in fulfilling its Digital Strategy.

Future Employment Support will be a major new national programme. It will be designed to support unemployed Universal Credit claimants into sustained employment through personalised support, stronger employer engagement, local integration, and specialist provision. It will respond to individual needs and regional labour market priorities. Seetec are taking an inclusive two-stage approach to building strong local partnerships. We are inviting organisations to complete stage one of a two stage process. This first stage is a light-touch Expression of interest (EOI), designed to help us to understand your organisation, your local presence, your specialist capability and your interest in working with us. The second stage will be a more detailed Request for Information (RFI) for shortlisted organisations, which will be weighted and scored to support partner selection, supply chain design and future co-design activity. At Seetec, we recognise the time and resource commitment that partner engagement processes can place on organisations, particularly SMEs, VCSEs, and specialist providers. We have therefore separated this process into two stages so that all interested organisations can express interest without needing to complete a full scored submission at the outset. We are inviting organisations of all sizes to register their interest in partnering with Seetec. We are particularly interested in organisations with strong local connections, specialist expertise, trusted stakeholder relationships and innovative approaches to supporting people into work. This initial EOI is intentionally light-touch and has been designed to understand your organisation, your local presence, and specialist expertise. Whether you are an SME, VCSE, charity, social enterprise, specialist provider, or larger delivery organisation, we want to hear from you. If you share our ambition to deliver locally integrated, high-quality support, we look forward to learning more about your organisation. Please complete our EOI here: https://forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=c2N7y57PGkCegWGpBbQ6ZmiYKMiLN-5Dk2-aKNgiT99UMkxaTVFCSDZEMktJUkZIV1lZWUxXOVlLNC4u&route=shorturl EOI Submission deadline: 6pm on 7th September

Suffolk County Council (Public Health and Communities) is undertaking soft market testing to inform a potential future procurement of an AI-enabled digital solution to support the Feel Good Suffolk (FGS) service. FGS is a lifestyle service supporting residents to stop smoking, manage a healthy weight and increase physical activity. The current digital offer is primarily static and does not provide personalised, adaptive support to users. The Council is exploring opportunities to enhance the digital front door through the introduction of an AI-enabled solution which may include: • A chatbot embedded within the existing FGS website to support user navigation, provide evidence-based information and improve access to services • AI-driven functionality to support pathway personalisation, including predicting user engagement, adherence and outcomes • Ongoing digital support to maintain behaviour change through tailored follow-up, prompts and engagement tools The proposed solution should support improved user engagement, provide personalised and accessible support, generate data-driven insights and align with relevant data protection, safeguarding and ethical AI requirements. This soft market testing exercise is exploratory and non-evaluative. It is intended to inform the Council's understanding of market capability, delivery models, timescales and indicative costs within an anticipated budget envelope of approximately £113,000 for an initial pilot period of up to 12 months. Subject to future requirements and approvals, there may be an option to extend the contract for up to a further 6 months. This notice does not constitute a call for competition or a commitment to procure.

Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (CUH) seeks to engage with potential suppliers via this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise to seek feedback and information to inform the forthcoming procurement of a comprehensive Digital Pathology Solution for the Department of Histopathology and Diagnostic Cytology and Haemato-oncology departments at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge Biomedical Campus. CUH is part of the Mid-East-5 Pathology Network, which also includes North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust and Bedfordshire NHS Foundation Trust. The network is interested in how closer collaboration over Histopathology can be achieved and are considering potential for jointly approaching this procurement to enable a closer working model to be achieved through common digital technology and interoperability. CUH is a Comprehensive Cancer Centre (CCC) and one of the largest NHS teaching hospital trusts in England. The Department processes approximately over 2000 slides per working day, including H&E, immunohistochemistry (IHC), in-situ hybridisation (ISH), special stains and an 8% annual growth rate projected. The laboratory is working towards running a fully automated pre-analytical and microtomy workflow including the Inpeco Flexpath system; Dainippon Seiki AT-192 trimmer and AS-410M sectioner distributed by Axlab UK, IHC platforms (Leica BOND-III,Leica BOND-PRIME and Ventana BenchMark Ultra Plus), HE staining equipment (Leica Spectra ST and CV), and Epic Beaker as its LIMS. The current digital pathology system includes the Philips SG300, Objective imaging Glissando and the Philips Image management System. The anticipated requirements include: • Whole Slide Imaging (WSI) scanner fleet achieving a minimum aggregate throughput of 400 slides per hour at 40x equivalent resolution or better (0.25 um/pixel minimum) for CE/UKCA-cleared primary diagnostic use, compatible with H&E, IHC, ISH, special stains and cytological preparations • Image Management System (IMS) providing primary diagnostic reporting, zero-footprint web viewer, bidirectional Epic Beaker integration, and an open AI integration framework for future CE/UKCA-cleared third-party AI algorithm integration without proprietary marketplace lock-in. IMS allowing integration of Macro/Block photography and associated to the Epic Beaker accession number for specimen/block/ slide comparison • AI-enabled Quality Control (QC) module operating pre-release to the reporting worklist, covering H&E, IHC, and special stains with stain-specific configurable thresholds, integrated rescan workflow and CE/UKCA IVD-MD SaMD regulatory clearance • Scalable petabyte-class whole slide image storage with UK data residency throughout the contract term, Minimum 1.2 PB usable capacity at contract start, scalable to 7 PB by Year 7. Suppliers may propose on-premise, cloud (UK data centres only), hybrid or nationally managed storage solutions. Solutions that provide or connect to national NHS digital pathology storage programmes are encouraged to describe this capability and the terms of access • Secure, standards-based whole slide image sharing to support: (a) intra-NHS sharing across pathology services enabling rapid second opinion and regional MDT collaboration, without requiring bilateral configuration with each receiving organisation; (b) external sharing to national and international second-opinion centres, academic institutions and clinical trial sponsors via DICOM or encrypted time-limited links without VPN access; (c) receipt and viewing of inbound images from external senders. All transfers must be encrypted with access audit logging and link expiry controls. Suppliers providing or connecting to national NHS digital pathology image exchange programmes are encouraged to describe this capability and the interoperability standards supported; (d) de-identified image sharing with annotation for research purposes; (e) Ability to audit access of shared images/ cases • Workload management and analytics dashboard: scanner throughput monitoring against a fleet target of >=400 slides/hr, pathologist workload allocation, TAT analytics, error logs and SLA management • AI Diagnostic Integration Framework: open vendor-neutral API enabling future procurement and integration of CE/UKCA-cleared diagnostic AI algorithms without full platform replacement. Note: diagnostic AI algorithms are not being procured under this notice The Authority welcomes responses from all supplier types including individual vendors and consortia, established major providers of digital technology solutions, Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) and niche innovators. Suppliers may respond to the full scope or to individual component areas. The Authority does not pre-determine the delivery model and is open to end-to-end solutions, modular proposals, and solutions that leverage established national NHS infrastructure, provided all requirements set out in this notice are demonstrably met. The Authority wishes to engage the market on the following specific points: • Market capability for high-throughput WSI scanning at >=400 slides/hour at 40x for CE/UKCA primary diagnosis, including emerging entrants • Market capability for specialist scanner with the capability for minimum 60x scanning, polarisation and full z-stack scanning • CE/UKCA IVD-MD primary diagnosis regulatory status of IMS platforms in the UK and timeline for platforms where clearance is in progress • Capability to integrate with national NHS digital pathology storage and image exchange programmes via DICOM standards including whether proposed IMS and storage solutions support interoperability with established national NHS infrastructure without mandating a specific viewer or IMS platform at the receiving end • Open AI framework maturity: vendor-neutral for CE/UKCA third-party diagnostic AI integration; confirmed partner integrations with Paige, Ibex, Visiopharm, PathAI or equivalent; multi-algorithm-per-slide support • Epic Beaker integration maturity: confirmed bidirectional HL7/FHIR at scale; existing Epic Beaker reference sites • UK field service and support infrastructure for 7-year contract: engineer response times; parts availability guarantee; preventive maintenance programme • Available commercial models: capital purchase, managed service, pay-per-scan, reagent-rental equivalent; indicative pricing for 7-year contract at stated volumes • Social value commitments and NHS Net Zero aligned carbon reduction pathways

As part of the evaluation of existing digital, online and virtual mental health services for children and young people in Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire Children and Young People's Mental Health System (CYPMHS) is running this premarket engagement session to understand the current marketplace. Providers are invited along to share their knowledge and expertise, including information about upcoming initiatives and developments in order to devise an indicative tender specification which will enable future provisions of this type.