Dictating Machines Tenders and Contracts

Many notices in this category are for digital dictation systems rather than standalone handheld recorders: software and hardware that let staff record spoken correspondence and have it typed up, often alongside speech recognition and outsourced transcription services.

Stotles brings together dictation tenders and contracts from 100+ portals into one search, so you do not have to check each portal separately, and you can set alerts for new opportunities across the UK and Ireland.

If you want to search the government portals directly, Find a Tender carries higher-value contracts across the UK and Contracts Finder carries lower-value contracts in England. Public Contracts Scotland, Sell2Wales and eTendersNI cover Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, Ireland's eTenders covers Irish public bodies, and many councils, NHS bodies and housing associations publish on their own e-tendering portals such as ProContract. Digital dictation and speech recognition are often bought through NHS and Crown Commercial Service software frameworks, and renewals of an existing system are frequently direct awards.

Dictation and speech recognition systems handle patient and personal data, so they must comply with UK data protection law and NHS data security standards where used in health. Tenders usually set minimum insurance cover, check financial standing and ask for evidence of similar contracts at selection stage. Under the Procurement Act 2023, suppliers can be excluded for certain criminal convictions, insolvency or failure to pay tax.

Some awards are made under existing public sector frameworks covering digital dictation, speech and voice recognition and outsourced transcription, with buyers running further competitions or direct awards rather than standalone open tenders.

NHS trusts and health boards are frequent buyers, replacing dictation and transcription systems for clinical correspondence and discharge letters. Central government departments, courts and police forces also run smaller contracts for speech recognition and accessibility software.

Read electronic patient record programmes, clinical documentation strategies, licence renewal dates for existing dictation systems and market engagement notices for voice technology, which show dictation work coming due ahead of a notice. On Stotles you can track those signals and the buyers behind them, then follow a notice from pre-tender through to award.

Dictation notices carry 48000000 (Software package and information systems) and 30232000 (Peripheral equipment), and transcription services carry 79530000 (Translation services) or 79500000 (Office-support services).