Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-12-22
Buyer: National Health Service Commissioning Board
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30162000 | 30200000 | 32410000 | 32420000 | 32500000
Submission deadline: 2018-02-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Accountable Care System (ACS) and Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP) Development Partner Framework
NHS England is looking to establish a framework agreement to provide Participating Authorities with a route to access relevant goods, services and/or technological solutions to supplement the core capabilities of STPs with more advanced innovations and solutions to deliver meaningful, transformational change for patients as envisaged by the 5 Year Forward View. Requirements include:
— Infrastructure: encompassing EPR and place-based digitalization, local health and care record solutions (incl. strategy, implementation support and infrastructure); and ICT infrastructure support and strategic services (incl. Primary Care IT support and cyber-security),
— Insight: informatics, analytics and digital tools to support system planning, assurance and evaluation, care coordination and management and risk and impactable models,
— Impact and Intervention: transformation and change support, patient empowerment and activation; system assurance support and medicines optimisation support.
The scope of this Lot will include the provision of advice and support on the development and implementation of all aspects of digitizing care records including Electronic Patient Records and provision of clinical systems, hardware, and associated support services.
This Lot will run to a different timetable to the other Lots under this Framework Agreement. Further information on the detailed requirements and timetable for procurement will follow.
It is expected that the Framework Agreement will be refreshed regularly (at least annually). Each refresh will be the subject of a new Contract Notice published in OJEU allowing new organizations to bid for a place on the framework from the refresh date. The first refresh process will commence in October 2018.
Provision of advice and support on the development and implementation of a Local Health and Care Record solution infrastructure and surrounding governance including but not limited to:
— Strategy development: Working with the ACS to develop their local technology architecture and implementation strategy for interoperability and information exchanges including but not limited to governance (including IG advice to ensure all data flows have clearly defined purposes and legal bases), user-centric solution design, making the case for change, engaging key stakeholders, identifying and supporting the commissioner to secure funding, identifying key barriers and designing solutions (for example aligning local processes and adhering to national standards), identifying and mitigating key risks and opportunities, supporting data quality improvement (including but not limited to targeted data quality performance reporting, outreach, education, training and other engagement and support to ensure good data quality practice is applied) and providing a detailed plan for transformation and change.
— Implementation support: Provision of a project management office and dedicated support to ensure that the new Local Health and Care Record infrastructure is implemented effectively. Support includes but is not limited to:
— — information governance support (including but not limited to supporting creation and operation of IG policies,
— — capturing and mapping all information assets ensuring GDPR requirements for processing activities are covered; definition of the purposes of data use,
— — creation of data processing agreements, information sharing agreements, and Fair-Processing/Privacy Notices,

Eligibility requirements: See ITT documentation for further information.