Planned procurement · Notice 095813-2026
Primary Care Support Services: GP Patient Medical Records
- Value
- £243m
- Stage
- Early notice
- Where
- UK-wide
- Lots
- 1
- Suitable for SMEs
- Yes, says the buyer
- Contract
- 1 Jun 2027 – 31 Aug 2035
In plain English
NHS England wants a supplier to manage GP patient medical records nationwide, covering secure transport, digitisation, storage, tracking and eventual destruction of records, plus supporting the transition from the current provider. This is a single large contract running from 1 June 2027 to 31 August 2035, worth an estimated £193,000,000 (excluding up to £50,000,000 of optional services).
Good fit for: Large-scale records management or logistics firms with experience handling sensitive, high-volume document and data services for the NHS.
- Must support transition from the current provider
Supporting transition from the incumbent supplier and maintaining continuity of service throughout Implementation.
- Handles legally mandated and authorised disclosure requests
Supporting authorised disclosure processes by retrieving and making complete GP Patient medical records available to the Authority's authorised service.
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What the buyer says
The GP Patient Medical Records Service covers the end-to-end management of high-volume GP Patient medical records. The Service supports GP practices and authorised parties that require records for continuity of care, patient registration, operational processing or legally mandated access. The Supplier will be responsible for: Providing secure transportation and exchanging of GP Patient medical records between GP practices, storage facilities and authorised recipients. Receiving registration transactions generated through patient registration activity and authorised manual requests. Creating GP Patient medical record movement requests from those registration transactions. Managing GP Patient medical record movements associated with patient registration and authorised manual requests. Providing transparent end-to-end status, location, chain-of-custody and audit information. Identifying, retrieving, reconciling and maintaining the integrity of the complete GP Patient medical record across paper and digital formats. Digitising, quality assuring, indexing and uploading records to the National Document Repository when required. Providing secure digital exchange where the National Document Repository is unavailable in exceptional circumstances or inaccessible to the intended recipient. The supplier is not required to build a separate repository. Maintaining archive storage and undertaking secure destruction in accordance with approved retention and destruction arrangements. Operating the supporting technology, customer contact, tracking, reporting and service-management capabilities. Supporting authorised disclosure processes by retrieving and making complete GP Patient medical records available to the Authority’s authorised service. Managing non-routine requests,…
Procedure: Competitive flexible procedure (Flexible: the buyer sets the stages, often a shortlist first, then bids). Published 9 Oct 2026.
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