Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-08-27
Buyer: University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 72212482
Submission deadline: 2019-09-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The business intelligence platform requires design and build of a data warehouse, hosting and BI tools.
Full details can be found in the procurement documentation and additionally at VI.3 Additional Information in this notice.
The BI tools will be available to all members of staff across the organisation, although it is expected that only a proportion of these will actively use the system. User volumes will start off low and increase over the life of the project, with up to 1 000 daily users anticipated.
The specification for this Lot is listed within the ‘Lot 1 BI Tools Detailed Requirements’ section (linked to here on page 3), however in summary they will allow users to analyse and drill down in to data from across all of the data we have from source systems with appropriate security in place to restrict access where necessary.
There will be a range of visualisations supporting analysis, trends, mapping and predictive analytics in a high performing environment. The tools will be intuitive, easy to use and available from a PC, laptop and mobile device. Users will be able to set up personalised analyses and alerts and share useful information with others. They will also be able to subscribe to reports to be delivered to at least their email at a time and day of their choosing.
The development of core dashboards and other visualisations will be carried out by the UHS in-house BI development team, but it is expected that other teams within the organisation will also have the ability to create content. The tools will need to enable UHS to have a quality assurance process for dashboards and visualisations prior to their release to others. The BI tools will need to allow us to use ‘templates’ to apply the UHS style to enable quick development and consistent look and feel.
The BI tools will most likely be hosted in an industry grade cloud solution provided under Lot 2 of this procurement, although SaaS (Software as a Service) or on premises implementation will be considered.
(b) Bidders will then be invited to tender (ITT) for the lot/s for which they have successfully passed the evaluation questions of the SQ.
(b) the top 3 scoring bids for each of the lots will then be invited to take the technical assessment test (as detailed in ‘Bidder Task — Lots 1 and 3 — Evaluation Scoring’).
(a) bidders take the relevant technical assessment test/s and are evaluated against the provided references/visit to the bidder’s client and the bidder’s submitted pricing (see ‘Commercial Schedule – Evaluation Scoring’).
(b) bidders are allocated a total score against all 4 of the evaluation criteria, as detailed below in Table 1: Evaluation Breakdown.
Full details of the evaluation criteria can be found in the following documents. Before submitting your response, it is the bidder’s responsibility to make sure they have studied and made reference to all of the following:
3) ‘Specification and Tender Response Document’. This document also contains sections that detail the following:
As referred to in the project timescale and description above it is required that any invited bids for Lots 1, 2 and 3 will be evaluated against a range of technical criteria, of which there is the requirement for the provision of both an implementation plan and deliverables.
Specifically, within the ‘Tender Overview Technical Specification and Tender Evaluation’ document there is the technical requirement that for Lot 1 ‘BI Tools’ and Lot 2 ‘Data warehouse and Hosting’, points 1.88 and 2.88 respectively that;

Eligibility requirements: Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents.