University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) trust is looking for a commercial partner to transform IT and communications for itself and other local health service organisations.

It has published a framework tender worth up to £600m over 15 years for a "managed business partner for IM&T transformation". Its own IT spending of £13m a year would account for nearly a third of this, although the deal will extend to its unified communications and extra transformational work. It does not currently have a major ICT provider.