Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-12-10
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, C&C, Other
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48100000 | 48180000 | 48814000: Medical information systems
Estimated value:  GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Software package and information systems, industry specific software package, medical software package, medical information systems. The authority is seeking to procure a digital platform that enables real-time tele-medicine support to deployed surgical teams, from Defence specialists in the UK, utilising Military communication networks and bearers and optimally, cloud connected personal electronic devices.
This platform will allow (24/7) real-time visual and audio interaction between an internationally stationed surgical team within a tented/hard standing/ afloat hospital and UK specialists. This product will provide a ‘Reach-in’ capability, utilising mixed or augmented reality. This will allow the deployed surgeon to visualise annotations or directions overlaid onto the real-time surgical field by the advising surgeon (likely to be in the UK). The product will also allow the real-time overlay of diagnostics in digital form (such as X-rays) onto the surgical field to assist both active and advisory surgeons.
The authority is seeking to procure a digital platform that enables real-time tele-medicine support to deployed surgical teams, from Defence specialists in the UK, utilising Military communication networks and bearers and optimally, cloud connected personal electronic devices.
This platform will allow (24/7) real-time visual and audio interaction between an internationally stationed surgical team within a tented/ hard standing/ afloat hospital and UK specialists. This product will provide a ‘Reach-in’ capability, utilising mixed or augmented reality. This will allow the deployed surgeon to visualise annotations or directions overlaid onto the real-time surgical field by the advising surgeon (likely to be in the UK). The product will also allow the real-time overlay of diagnostics in digital form (such as X-rays) onto the surgical field to assist both active and advisory surgeons.
The digital platform should not require specialist hardware, any IT/AV equipment should be commercial off the shelf (COTS) and readily integrate-able/replaceable. Specialist network hardware will be provided by the authority and will integrate with existing communication systems/bearers.
To ensure accuracy of visualisation the digital platform must provide a minimum visual quality of 480 dots per inch (DPI) to both the deployed and advising surgeon. To ensure ease of integration the platform’s bandwidth requirements are not to exceed 2 Megabits per second (Mbps). The product must be able to operate (without service interruption) with a data packet delay of 600 milliseconds (ms) Round Trip Time (RTT), noting that this will result in an acceptable lag in the service. The platform session must be simple and easy to re-boot in the case of total power failure to the supporting hardware and, optimally, be able to fall back on 2-way Audio when Bandwidth is overly contested.
The data passed by this platform must be encrypted at source, in transit and in storage. Data handling must be GDPR and Caldicott compliant. Any servers providing data storage for the product are to be located within UK sovereign territory.
The initial contract will allow the authority to establish an integration route via MOD information services and support and will enable testing of the product in simulated deployed overseas environments across encrypted/secure military communications systems. If the situation occurs that initial testing precludes the integration of the platform, then the authority reserves the right to end the contract.
There is a pre-qualification questionnaire (PQQ) as part of this contract notice — The access code for the PQQ is W7KN9WQX2B
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Number of bids: 1