Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-06-15
Buyer: The Health and Social Care Information Centre (known as NHS Digital)
Country: UK
Region: YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 32400000 | 32412100 | 32413100 | 32415000 | 32416000
Estimated value: 120000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-07-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The procurement seeks to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of telecommunications network services across a range of public sector organisations including Health, Local Government, Police, Fire & Rescue and Transport. The scope of which shall include the design, implementation (including migration and transition), provision and management of telecommunications network services.
The procurement seeks to establish a Framework Agreement for the provision of telecommunications network services across a range of public sector organisations including Health, Local Government, Police, Fire & Rescue and Transport. The scope of which shall include the design, implementation (including migration and transition), provision and management of telecommunications network services which:
For the purposes of this procurement the "Yorkshire and Humber Region" means any location within the following Sustainability and Transformation Plans ("STP") Footprints as defined by NHS England (https://www.england.nhs.uk/stps/) as defined at the date of this Contract Notice:
As at the publication of this Contract Notice the latest list of these Contracting Authorities can be found in the Office for National Statistics' Public Sector Classification Guide (see the ‘Central Government’ and ‘Local Government’ worksheets in the ‘Public Sector Classification Guide) — January 2017 spreadsheet found at: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/uksectoraccounts/datasets/publicsectorclassificationguide classification guide (updated from time to time).
The Contracting Authority intends to invite 6 candidates to tender on the basis of the order of the highest ranking candidates at the SQ stage, and as described in the SQ. The Contracting Authority reserves its right to extend this to up to 9 candidates if the scoring between 6th and 9th placed candidates is very close and/or to ensure a genuine competition and/or in other circumstances at the Contracting Authority's discretion. During the SQ stage submissions will be assessed and marked following which, and based on the order of ranking, the Contracting Authority will exercise its sole and absolute discretion to determine the number of candidates to be invited to negotiate.
Note that, in accordance with Government's policies on transparency, the Contracting Authority intends to publish the Invitation to Negotiate (ITN) documents, and the text of any Contract awarded (to include the Framework Agreement, and any subsequent Call-Off Agreements entered into thereunder), subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.
Economic and financial standing will be evaluated and will result in a ‘pass’ or ‘fail’ for each Tender as set out in the SQ. In order to progress to the next stage, a Tender must pass this hurdle.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.To gain access you must first be registered with Delta eSourcing who can be contacted at https://www.delta-esourcing.com/.
An Access code of MM4AF48W3U will need to be entered at https://www.delta-esourcing.com/ to view the documents which shall include an Selection Questionnaire (SQ).
In the event of difficulty gaining access to the documents queries should first be directed to Delta eSourcing. If access can still not be gained contact should then be made via hscn.access@nhs.net quoting the procurement title in the subject of the email.
The Authority will be holding a supplier event to provide information relating to the HSCN YHPSN procurement. Following the event, this information will be made available on the Delta eSourcing web site details of which are provided above. Innopsis are facilitating the event. If any supplier wishes to attend the event then please register using the link below:
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs).
However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
The Framework Agreement will be accessible for use by all Public Sector bodies including their Arm's Length Bodies and agencies; Non-Ministerial Department and Executive Agencies; and the Wider Public Sector (and any future successors to these organisations) located within, or providing services to individuals or other participating organisations located within the Yorkshire and Humber Region.
Entities which are not public sector bodies may also use the Framework Agreement if the Contracting Authority is satisfied that such entity is calling off goods or services directly, solely and exclusively in order to satisfy contractual obligations to 1 or more public sector bodies or such other entities as may be entitled to receive the benefit of goods or services under the terms of the Framework Agreement (‘End Users’), all of which are entitled to use the Framework Agreements on their own account; and all Services to be called-off by it are to be used directly, solely and exclusively by such End Users; and it will pass the benefit of the Call-Off Contract to such End Users directly in full. The Framework Agreement will also be accessible to charitable and other third sector organisations engaged in the provision of health and social care related services within the Yorkshire and Humber Region.


Award value: 120000000