Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-04-30
Buyer: Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33190000 | 48000000 | 72000000 | 72200000 | 72210000: Software programming services
Submission deadline: 2016-05-27

Technical requirements: (SM — LYPFT) — mHabitat Programme. Development and Application of Digital Technology to Improve Health, Care and Public Services.
This ITT has been issued by Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Its purpose is to invite tenders from suitably experienced and qualified supplier(s) of digital technology development and application solutions.
The services sourced under this agreement will directly support the Trust's mHabitat (Mobile Health) Team in improving health, care and other public services; specifically through the use of technology/digital innovation.
This process will establish a framework agreement in accordance with the Specification(s) within the attached documents, and in line with NHS Framework terms and conditions of contract.
The framework shall have a term of up to 4 years, (initial term of 2 years with the option to extend for a further 2 x 12 month periods).
Based on the predicted work-flow, and in line with Government guidelines focussing on agile methodology, we require a number of providers to work flexibly to meet our requirements, as dictated by the diverse nature of a digital workload within health, care and social environments.
Within this lot, we require contractors who specialise in web design and development. Requirements will range from responsive websites with relatively static content and basic interactivity; through to completely interactive clinical web services that may store patient data.
We will also require contractors who can provide the ‘whole build’ process, from the initial scoping work and prototyping; through to user testing, building and deployment. This may also include individual elements of this process being delivered as separate projects.
Importantly, providers will have a demonstrable commitment to user-centred methods of design and a collaborative approach to development.
Based on the predicted work-flow and in line with Government guidelines focussing on agile methodology; we require a number of providers to work flexibly to meet our requirements, as dictated by the diverse nature of a digital workload within a health, care and social environments. We require mobile application developers with experience of developing and deploying native and web based applications across multiple platforms; specifically for IOS, Android and Windows operating systems.
Providers will have proven experience in all aspects of application development; from undertaking initial scoping and exploratory work, to producing basic functional prototypes and design specifications and user testing. You must also have the knowledge and resources to carry out the full end-to-end process (including build and deployment) as required.
— Commitment to meeting the standards set out by the British Standards Institution: — please reference the 2015 document ‘PAS 277 Health and wellness apps Quality criteria across the life-cycle Code of practice’.
Based on the predicted work-flow and in line with Government guidelines focussing on agile methodology, we require a number of providers to work flexibly to meet our requirements as dictated by the diverse nature of a digital workload within a healthcare environment.
We require mobile application developers with specific experience of developing and deploying applications that are classified as ‘Medical Devices’ by the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Build requirements will include native applications across multiple platforms (specifically for IOS, Android and Windows operating systems) that will provide a full mobile application build process; from the initial scoping work, through to building and deployment.

Eligibility requirements: — Suppliers must be a registered entity for tax purposes. — PAS 277:2015 Code Of Practice For Wellness Apps. — IG Toolkit Compliant — www.igt.hscic.gov.uk