Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-01-28
Buyer: Velindre University NHS Trust (as hosts of NHS Wales Informatics Service)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 48814000: Medical information systems | 71900000
Estimated value: 22000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-02-27
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Velindre University NHS Trust acting as hosts of the NHS Wales Informatics Service is seeking to procure a national Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) service to underpin the development of NHS Pathology Services in Wales
Velindre University NHS Trust acting as hosts of NHS Wales Informatics Service are procuring a national Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) service to underpin the development of NHS Pathology Services in Wales.
The LIMS service is to be delivered across NHS Wales’ network infrastructure (currently provided by the Welsh Government's PSBA network). Bidders are required to deliver an innovative approach to the delivery of an ‘All Wales’ LIMS service.
1) All NHS Pathology laboratories across Wales and including, as a minimum, the following disciplines: andrology, haematology, biochemistry, immunology, blood transfusion and tracking, histopathology, cytology, mortuary and microbiology;
2) Integration to the ‘All Wales’ national technical platform, other national pathology systems, pathology analysers and equipment;
The LIMS service must enable the configuration and management of the LIMS to be delivered on a national basis through a single instance. All sites would be connected via a Wide Area Network (WAN) linked to a single application and database. The bidder will configure the LIMS to Wales requirements in a standardised way with some flexibility to meet warranted variation.
The LIMS service should allow information to be shared across the whole network with standardised and comparable data and report formats across all laboratories.
2) The provision, customisation, configuration, installation, implementation, ongoing development and upgrade of application software, communications, training and service management to required standards;
Original contract term is 7 years with the option to extend for 2 years in increments of 12 months or on a longer term basis up to the maximum contract term of 9 years.
The authority intends to invite appropriate candidates to participate in the dialogue on the basis of the ranking of their responses to the pre-qualification stage (reduce to 6 suppliers) and the invitation to participate in dialogue stage (reduce to 3 suppliers) in accordance with the criteria and processes set out in the tender documents.
The authority may purchase from the successful bidder software for electronic test requesting and other LIMS related services.
A draft set of terms and conditions (master services agreement) are provided in the pre-qualification questionnaire document set.
The contracting authority will not accept completed pre-qualification questionnaires after the stated closing date.
All tender costs and liabilities incurred by bidders shall be the sole responsibility of the bidders.
The contracting authority reserves the right to award the contract in whole, in part or annul the tendering process and not award any contract.


Award value: 22000000