Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-10-16
Buyer: Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, as hosts of NHS London Procurement Partnership
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 72250000: System and support services | 72263000: Software implementation services | 72421000 | 72422000
Submission deadline: 2020-11-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
A new framework agreement covering the full suite of clinical digital professional services, including services pertaining to both proprietary solutions and opensource solutions. All standalone, clinical system focused professional services, will be covered.
The framework agreement will allow for further competition and direct award to all awarded suppliers. In order to facilitate direct award, this framework will require the submission of national list pricing that will be published in a catalogue to all potential drawdown authorities in full and unrestricted.
Suppliers must have significant experience in the provision of professional services pertaining to proprietary (i.e. closed-source) clinical software solutions for use in healthcare environments. These professional services must relate to the identification and/or requirements design and/or deployment and implementation of proprietary clinical systems/software solutions.
Suppliers must have previous experience in the following areas working in a large-scale healthcare environment. An example of a large-scale healthcare environment may be an environment hosting over 10 m discrete person records with growth of up to 1m per month, with over 700 contributing GP organisations, over 10 contributing acute trusts and other types of health and social care providers using transactional real-time messaging and bulk data transfers. Total stored data may exceed 70 TB, on average over 20 database servers and over 80 application servers, all of which may be anticipated to increase over time:
Suppliers must have previous experience in the following areas working in a large-scale healthcare environment. An example of a large-scale healthcare environment may be an environment hosting over 10 m discrete person records with growth of up to 1 m per month, with over 700 contributing GP organisations, over 10 contributing acute trusts and other types of health and social care providers using transactional real-time messaging and bulk data transfers. Total stored data may exceed 70 TB, on average over 20 database servers and over 80 application servers, all of which may be anticipated to increase over time:
The framework agreement can be accessed via agreement by LPP and shall include the following organisations in the United Kingdom and their respective statutory successors and organisations created as a result of structural re-organisations or organisational changes:
• Central government departments and their executive agencies (a list of such departments and executive agencies can be found at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/government-business/government-ministers-responsibilities.aspx);
• Non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) (a list of NDPBs can be found at Annex A to the Public Bodies Directory 2007 published by the cabinet office) which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-bodies-reform
• National Health Service (NHS) bodies, including Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, a special health authority and a local health board in England and Wales and other constituent bodies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland including but not limited to the Scottish ambulance service.
• All Local Authorities, a list of such authorities being available at: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/AToZOfLocalCouncils/DG_A-Z_LG
• All Combined Authorities, a list of such authorities being available at: https://www.local.gov.uk/topics/devolution/combined-authorities
• Police forces and other emergency services, including fire and rescue services, the maritime and Coast guard agency and other rescue authorities a list of police authorities and fire and rescue services can be found respectively at the following:
• Educational establishments i.e. schools maintained by local authorities; academies; city technology colleges; further education establishments, and universities.