Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-05-05
Buyer: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service (CCS)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 800000000 GBP

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as the Authority intends to put in place a Pan Government Collaborative Agreement for use by NHS Digital and other public sector health and social care bodies for the provision of digital outcomes and supporting services. The scope of the agreement will cover the following:
Crown Commercial Service, as the Authority, intends to put in place an agreement for the provision of digital capability for health for use by NHS Digital and other public sector health and social care bodies for the provision of digital outcomes and supporting services. The agreement is being developed with NHS Digital as the Operator, who requires digital capability to meet specific needs of the health and social care sector. NHS Digital requires suppliers to invest in understanding their specific organisational needs and to bespoke delivery of their services to meet requirements.
This framework will have a manageable number of suppliers (approximately 12 suppliers) with whom NHS Digital can develop strategic relationships over a sufficient period of time, to warrant up-front investment in framework level supplier agnostic competition, whilst maintaining effective and efficient competition at call-off.
Typical digital development will follow Government Digital Service (GDS) life cycle: discovery, alpha, beta and so on, outlined in the government service design manual (https://www.gov.uk/service-manual).
Digital resource augmentation is required to supplement existing NHS Digital Capability and may be formed from NHS Digital and up to two other suppliers as ‘rainbow squads’.
The framework is intended to address the evolving technical ‘stacks’ associated within the different pillars of NHS Digital, including:
Crown Commercial Service, as the Authority, intends to put in place an agreement for the provision of digital capability for health for use by NHS Digital and other public sector health and social care bodies for the provision of digital outcomes and supporting services. The agreement is being developed with NHS Digital as the operator, who requires digital capability to meet specific needs of the health and social care sector. NHS Digital requires suppliers to invest in understanding their specific organisational needs and to bespoke delivery of their services to meet requirements.
This framework will have a manageable number of suppliers (approximately 12 suppliers) with whom NHS Digital can develop strategic relationships over a sufficient period of time, to warrant up-front investment in framework level supplier agnostic competition, whilst maintaining effective and efficient competition at call-off.
Typical digital development will follow Government Digital Service (GDS) life cycle: discovery, alpha, beta and so on, outlined in the government service design manual (https://www.gov.uk/service-manual).
Digital resource augmentation is required to supplement existing NHS Digital Capability and may be formed from NHS Digital and up to two other suppliers as ‘rainbow squads’.
The framework is intended to address the evolving technical ‘stacks’ associated within the different pillars of NHS Digital, including:
This prior information notice is to signal an intention to commence market engagement with those within the software application development market in order to raise supplier awareness of the framework, test supplier capability and resources to meet award criteria and to generate interest in the market.
Crown Commercial Service intends to hold a market engagement session during May 2020 with NHS Digital and suppliers interested in potentially bidding for the resulting commercial agreement. If you are interested in attending the market engagement session please express your interest by emailing cloud_digital@crowncommercial.gov.uk
Your email must clearly state: the name of your organisation, and contact details for the individual(s) who will participating in the market engagement, along with the following details:


Award value: 800000000