Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2018-09-13
Buyer: East Of England NHS Collaborative Hub
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 44316400 | 48000000 | 48100000 | 48180000 | 48516000
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP

Technical requirements: National Dynamic Purchasing System for Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) Supporting Systems and Services
East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub are seeking to establish a national Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the procurement of Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) Supporting Systems and Services. This DPS, once established, will allow organisations to procure supporting hardware and software to ensure that the FMD is implemented in an expedient way.
Hardware is required for FMD decommissioning use cases and the barcode scanning hardware must comply with the FMD Scanning Specification as defined by NHS Digital. The Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) delegated regulation requires those who supply medicinal product to verify their authenticity via a decommissioning process. Decommissioning involves reading (scanning) a unique 2D barcode printed on every manufactured medicinal product pack and checking that each pack is known and available for decommissioning within a system of interconnected FMD “hubs” known as National Medicines Verification Systems (NMVS).
Secure software is required specifically to connect to the National Medicines Verification System (NMVS) for organisations to submit a verification or decommission request. Organisations must also be able to receive its request status back from the national system in a timely manner.
Integrated software and hardware systems are required for Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) decommissioning use cases and the barcode scanning hardware must comply with the FMD Scanning Specification as defined by NHS Digital. Secure software is required specifically to connect to the National Medicines Verification System (NMVS) for organisations to submit a verification or decommission request. Organisations must also be able to receive their request status back from the NMVS in a timely manner. These systems may exist in the form of proposed future development of systems already in place in the pharmacy sector, or could be in the form of standalone systems which might interlink into the existing pharmacy systems, and into the proposed FMD central database (UK NMVS).
The requirement is for support services to aid organisations in implementing the requirements of the Falsified Medicines Directive regulation. This support service could be in the form of support with hardware and software implementation including connectivity to the NMVS, support to organisations in implementing the necessary requirements of the regulations e.g. staff training and standard operating procedure development.
Maintenance services to support the hardware and software requirements of the Falsified Medicines Directive
The requirement is for maintenance services for the hardware and software systems required to implement the requirements of the Falsified Medicines Directive regulation.
The purpose of this Prior Information Notice is to elicit expressions of interest from suppliers who feel they have products which could be used to deliver the FMD functionality in the UK. Such products could include hardware, software, implementation and maintenance services. The products may exist in the form of proposed future development of systems already in place in the pharmacy sector, or could be in the form of standalone systems which might interlink into the existing pharmacy systems, and into the proposed FMD central database (UK Medicines Verification System).
We plan to hold a pre-market event the week commencing 24.9.2018 with suppliers, who have expressed an interest in this opportunity.
This notice is for information only and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to not proceed to tender. Additionally, the Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the tendering process and not to award the contract. The information contained in this notice, including information relating to the nature and scope of the Authority's requirements, the service classification of this requirement, the list of CPV codes or the lot categories is only indicative of current thinking and is neither exhaustive nor binding and the Authority reserves the right at its absolute discretion to amend it at any time of issue of any further notices or at any other time.
The publication of this notice in no way obliges the Authority to commence any competitive tender process.


Award value: 10000000