Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-11-10
Buyer: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30237110 | 48000000 | 72212732
Submission deadline: 2018-12-10
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Framework Agreement for the Provision of Enabling Technology to support a NW London Cross-Organisation NHS Radiology Platform 8.11.2018
The North West London Radiology Network (NWL) acting through Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (Authority) comprising of the following Trusts: London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust).
The Framework Agreement will be for a period of 4 years with an option to extend for 1 year, from which contracts will be for a primary period of 4 years with option to extend e.g. 4 years + 3 years + 3 years, extension periods will be decided by the Trust via the Authority and maximum contract length will be for 10 years.
At the sole discretion of the participating organisation should no award be made the participating organisations will not be liable for any bid or aborted costs and reserve the right not to make any contractual award.
The NW London Radiology Network (The Network), consists of 6 Trusts; London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Chelsea and Westminster
NHS Foundation Trust, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Foundation Trust.
The Network is seeking to procure a technology platform (The Service) which will enable a new sector-wide clinical and operating model. The Service will facilitate the development of a collaborative approach to imaging, reporting provision, training and research across the area. Making radiology images available across The Network will enable the more efficient use of resources, reduce clinical pathway times and increase clinical safety.
The Service: The Network is looking to procure a Cloud Hosted solution which connects existing and future radiology applications. It must use open standards to ensure the maximum flexibility in local systems in the future.
It must also serve to facilitate intelligent planning of reporting capacity, add a robust and reliable method of alerting Users to critical requirements and bring cross-organisational resources together in Networked MDT meetings.
The Network understands that meeting the full Statement of Requirements may require development from a supplier and anticipate a phased approach to deployment, working with a supplier to engage clinical and administrative staff in a progressive rollout of functionality. Attention should be paid to the categorisation of requirements into Phase 1 (immediate deployment) and Phase 2 (secondary deployment).
Key Functional Goals: suppliers should present a solution which can help The Network to achieve the following:
— access to a unified imaging record of current and historical images for all patients across the Network to support clinical decision making in enhanced reporting and MDT workflows,
— management of clinical risk and care quality by implementing a clear alerting solution for key clinical pathways, critical and unexpected findings.
— radiology reporting which is not reliant on location and will allow for Radiologists to report on assigned cases from any location within the Network,
— assignment and management of worklists across The Network to provide an efficient insourcing model using all available resources,