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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.

Description Essex Record Office (ERO) is seeking to engage with the market to understand available solutions and supplier capabilities that can support the modernisation of its archive management, digital preservation and public access services. ERO is undertaking this Preliminary Market Engagement (PME) exercise to inform future procurement activity and ensure that any proposed solutions align with the organisation's statutory responsibilities, service requirements and long-term digital preservation ambitions. ERO is looking to understand the market's ability to provide solutions that can deliver the following outcomes: • Replacement of the current in-house developed Archive Management System (SEAX), which underpins over 80% of ERO's operations and public-facing services, including income-generating online services. • The archive management system will need to: o facilitate viewing the catalogue on-site at Essex Record Office locations and online o provide free access to digital and digitised collections on-site at Essex Record Office locations o provide online access, outside of ERO locations, to digital and digitised collections via a subscription service o facilitate the creation of user accounts with role dependent security/access levels o provide a paywall to access certain collections o manage the personal data of users of the service, including taking payments from them • Support for statutory archive, records management and civil registration functions. • Secure, scalable and standards-compliant digital preservation capabilities to support the long-term preservation, integrity and accessibility of digital records. We require a solution for preserving digital records with retention periods of 100 years or more, as well as potentially shorter retention periods. The solution must be able to deal with a variety of file formats including proprietary software files and a range of sound and moving image files. • Progression towards National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Level 4 digital preservation maturity. Specifically, we require: o For digital records storage: three copies in at least two geographic locations (storage will need to be in the UK or EU) o A means of controlling, auditing, and recording file permissions o A means of recording sufficient metadata about the files using an appropriate metadata standard e.g. METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard), PREMIS (PREservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies), BagIt (BagIt File Packaging Format) and/or Dublin Core o Periodic integrity checking and disaster simulation, and a means of regularly updating the results of these checks o A means of recording details of people and software that have accessed or taken preservation actions on files. • Improved management and discovery of digital assets through modern digital asset management capabilities. • Enhanced public access, search and discovery through modern online archive and catalogue services. • Improved customer journeys and increased public engagement. • Support for current income generating services and potential for enhanced income generation opportunities. • Integration capabilities with existing and future corporate platforms and digital services. • Modern, intuitive and user-friendly interfaces for both staff and public users. As a minimum, we will need: o The ability to allow members of the public to access suitable digital preservation files o A means of providing redacted access copies of the content where necessary o A means of recording when files have been accessed and by whom o A means of ensuring the content is protected from unauthorised changes and any loss • Scalable architecture capable of supporting current digital holdings of 88.8TB and significant future growth over the coming decades. • Strong governance, audit, compliance and security features to support statutory and regulatory requirements, including the Public Records Act, Freedom of Information legislation and Data Protection requirements. Background Archive Management System It is estimated that over 80% of the work of the ERO is currently managed through an in-house developed tool called SEAX. SEAX was created by Essex County Council as a bespoke system. It was created over 25 years ago in a now archaic programming language. Seax Explorer was written in VB (Visual Basic) and uses forms to create the different screens of its various modules (e.g. Catalogue Manager, Accession Manager, etc.). These forms have been written in a custom language based loosely around XML and are stored within the Seax Explorer database. The online element of the system is known internally as Seax PAM and to the public as Essex Archives Online. This includes our online catalogue and income-generating subscription service and income-generating single-image service. Seax PAM was written using .NET framework and C# and is currently using an old version of .NET framework. We are seeking a modern, sustainable and future-proofed solution for managing our requirements for accessioning, cataloguing, storage locations, document production, reader management and user access (at the ERO and online). The ERO has a staff of around 25 people. Up to 12 users are likely to require login access to the staff side of the AMS, including generic logins for Searchroom staff, document production staff, volunteers, etc. Digital Preservation As of July 2026, the ERO has 88.8TB of digital data. This figure is expected to grow at an estimated rate of 5TB per year. Within the 88.8TB of data, 3.3TB consists of born-digital records; the other 85.5TB being content the ERO has digitised from its manuscript, image, sound and video collections. This data is all currently stored on Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage. Most of the content is listed in basic form on a spreadsheet. Detailed metadata at file level is being added as resources allow. Further documentation about rights is kept in separate filing and on our archive management system (alongside information about our paper and analogue collections). The ERO has a dedicated ingest PC through which we process digital collections as they arrive. We are able to take images of disks using ISO Buster software, transfer files as they are or transfer them to a file format with greater longevity. Transfers can be made using Teracopy software and we can interrogate the files we receive using TNA’s Droid software. The main element of NDSA (National Digital Stewardship Alliance) Digital Preservation Level 1 we are not currently achieving is the requirement to have two complete copies of our digital content in separate locations. Our aim is to progress through the NDSA digital preservation levels to meet NDSA Level 4. Areas of Interest ERO is particularly interested in understanding solutions relating to: • Archive Management Systems (AMS) • Digital Preservation Management Systems (DPMS) • Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) • Preservation storage and hosting solutions • Public catalogue and online archive access platforms • Migration services from legacy archive systems • Integration and API capabilities Contract Considerations At this stage, ERO is seeking supplier feedback on: • Appropriate contract lengths and commercial models • Implementation and migration timelines • SaaS, cloud-hosted and hybrid delivery models • Opportunities for phased delivery across AMS, DPMS, DAMS and public access capabilities • Scalability to support long-term digital preservation requirements. The information gathered through this PME will help shape ERO's future procurement strategy, solution design and business case development.

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.