Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-03-06
Buyer: York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48983000
Estimated value: 400000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-04-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The required work will be enhancements of our existing clinical systems, including our electronic patient care record, in particular enhancements to our endoscopy reporting system. The contract is for a 6 month period initially and further work may be awarded under this contract, up to a maximum of 36 months or expiry of the contract whichever comes first. This contract will expire on the 31.5.2022.
Person specification: The work will require a highly skilled oracle developer(s) with at least five (5) years oracle development experience. Including as a minimum:
— creation, storage and rendering of rich text documents, utilising healthcare interoperability standards,
The required work will be enhancements of our existing outpatient system, specifically in relation to the creation of clinical documentation aligned to NHS transfers of care specifications. It is expected that the requirement will be for approximately 50 days of development. Due to the nature of this work, these days will not be contiguous. It is expected that resource will be provided in blocks of 10-15 days over a 6-9 month period. Exact dates will be agreed with the supplier. These are expected to be between April and November 2019. The contract is for a 12 month period initially and further work may be awarded under this contract, up to a maximum of 36 months. This contract will expire on the 31.5.2022.
Person specification: The work will require a highly skilled Oracle Developer(s) with at least 5 years Oracle Development experience. Including as a minimum:
— creation, storage and rendering of rich text documents, utilising healthcare interoperability standards,
We have the requirement for a highly skilled and experienced Oracle Developers(s) to develop systems using Oracle APEX and support our in-house software development team at York Hospital. The majority of the development can be undertaken remotely, but there is an expectation of regular attendance on site. The frequency of on-site presence will vary based on the needs within the project, but is expected to be at least 2 days per month. Development takes place in an agile, user focused environment and as such requirements are still emerging. Fully detailed development specifications will not be supplied. The successful bidder will work with our development team and other stakeholders to finalise the specifications, and so should be fully experienced in all aspects of the software development process. The required work will be:
1) Migration of existing Oracle Forms functionality to Oracle APEX (version 18) 2. Upgrade of existing APEX functionality to use the Oracle Universal Theme 3. Design and consultancy of ORDS environment to publish REST API’s 4. Enhancement of APEX modules to consume REST API’s 5. Building of new APEX modules The contract is for a 150 developer days initially. In order to meet the expected timescales this will require 2 developers for some of this time. Further work may be awarded under this contract, up to a maximum of 36 months. This contract will expire on the 31.5.2022.
Skills specification: The work will require a highly skilled Oracle Developer(s) with at least 5 years Oracle Development experience. Including as a minimum:


Award value: 400000