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    ContractsVirtual Hospital Programme - Digital Development Services Contract
    Awarded contract

    Virtual Hospital Programme - Digital Development Services Contract

    Awarded
    £9.9m
    Published 9 Oct 2026

    Contract to develop digital infrastructure and services for the NHS Virtual Hospital programme, enabling remote delivery of planned specialist care across England.

    🇬🇧United KingdomPublished 9 Oct 2026· 5 days agoviaContracts Finder
    Awarded
    £9.9m
    Published 9 Oct 2026

    Decision brief

    4 fields
    • Contract value
      £9,900,000
      Pounds sterling
    • Tender closed
      29 Jun 2026
      3 months ago
    • Sector
      IT & Software
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    • Location
      🇬🇧United Kingdom

    Suppliers

    1 supplier
    • KS
      KAINOS SOFTWARE LIMITED
    Lead contractor

    Lifecycle

    Awarded

    Contract awarded. Originally published 5 days ago.

    9 Oct 2026Today29 Jun 2026

    Brief

    The NHS is seeking a contractor to provide comprehensive digital development services for the Virtual Hospital (VH) programme Alpha Development Phase 2. Required services include: Digital Definition, DevOps, End to End Development, and Data Management Services. The contract may also support additional short-term, time-bound, or outcome-based work streams across related NHS initiatives. Context: The Virtual Hospital Programme is establishing a new, NHS-owned national digital provider dedicated to delivering elective (planned) care services virtually across England. This initiative directly supports the NHS Elective Reform Plan and 10 Year Plan objectives to improve planned care performance and drive productivity. The programme will create a digital-first service that delivers specialist elective care remotely, unconstrained by geography. This approach enables better alignment of clinical capacity with patient demand, optimises existing workforce utilisation through flexible working arrangements, and leverages modern technologies to provide standardised, timely patient care. Suppliers should be experienced in healthcare digital transformation, cloud infrastructure (DevOps), end-to-end software development, and secure health data management systems.

    Track record

    35 awards · 30 winners
    Open field

    No single supplier dominates the field.

    In it software, NHS ENGLAND has awarded 35 contracts to 30 suppliers.

    Who wins here
    1. CGI IT UK LIMITED3× · 9%
    2. Bloomsbury Health Limited2× · 6%
    3. Netcompany UK limited2× · 6%
    4. Dundee University2× · 6%
    5. MCKINSEY and COMPANY INC UNITED KINGDOM1× · 3%
    6. UK Haemophilia Centre Doctors Organisation Ltd1× · 3%

    +24 more suppliers

    Across it software, the most active winners are SOFTCAT PLC, PHOENIX SOFTWARE LTD, INSIGHT DIRECT UK LIMITED — the field to beat, or your route in as a partner.

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    Publisher
    UK Cabinet Office
    Licence
    OGL v3.0
    Source
    contractsfinder.service.gov.uk
    Record ID
    08a214f5-3ee0-4014-9489-cfed7c3ff431-917190

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