Published date: 2 December 2025

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 9 July 2025, 5pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • IT software development services - 72212517

Location of contract

LS1 4AP

Value of contract

£305,295.79

Procurement reference

CF-3226600D0O000000rwimUAA

Published date

2 December 2025

Closing date

9 July 2025

Closing time

5pm

Contract start date

10 July 2025

Contract end date

9 July 2028

Contract type

Not applicable

Procedure type

Call-off from a framework agreement

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established framework agreement.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Re-procurement of Health Language software licences & support.

NHS England develops, maintains, distributes and licences the UK OPCS-4 procedure statistical classification as the UK national release centre on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
OPCS-4 is used by NHS front line organisations to classify hospital interventions and surgical procedures into alphanumeric codes. The coded data is designed to support and assist in the management of healthcare services at a local level and enable informed analysis of medical data at a large scale for national trends it also provides the underpinning data for hospital reimbursement

NHS England licenses the authoring platform so the classifications team can undertake authoring, maintenance and release of the national OPCS-4 codes. The team are part way through the latest 3yr lifecycle for the authoring of the categories and subcategories to deliver the latest release of OPCS-4 that enable statistical presentation for data comparability and hospital reimbursement.

Award information

Awarded date

21 November 2025

Contract start date

10 July 2025

Contract end date

9 July 2028

Total value of contract

£508,826.32

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Akhter Computers Limited

Address

1-3 Marshgate Business Centre, Harlow Business Park, Harlow CM19 5QP

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

Yes

About the buyer

Contact name

NHSE Contract Management

Address

7 & 8 Wellington Place
Leeds
LS1 4AP
GB

Email

nhsdcontractmanagement@nhs.net