Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-11-17
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (‘NSS’)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 48180000 | 48814000: Medical information systems | 48814400 | 72000000 | 72200000
Estimated value: 216000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-12-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
NHS National Services Scotland is establishing a single supplier framework on behalf of all NHS Health Boards in Scotland for the replacement of their Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). The implementation of a common, modern LIMS is required to help realise the aims of NHS Scotland’s digital strategies and also to be a key enabler for the National Laboratories Programme to deliver NHS Scotland’s strategic aim for clinical laboratory services in the form of a Distributed Service Model (DSM).
The intention is that the new LIMS will meet the requirements of all core laboratory disciplines (Blood Sciences including Blood Transfusion, Cellular Pathology, and Microbiology) including Genetics.
This procurement facilitates the programme in delivering standardisation of processes, workflow and coding, to enable multidisciplinary multi board team working, to facilitate accurate, quicker, easier and timely sharing of laboratory data across Scotland, and to ensure that no matter where health care is delivered in Scotland, patients will have equitable access to efficient, effective, sustainable and affordable laboratory services.
The services will include the software, development, implementation, training, support and maintenance of the software. It may also include the hosting of the system and software.
The framework agreement by NSS will provide LIMS services to the specification of a consortium of 11 NHS Health Boards and will provide a window of 5 years for all NHS Health Boards to replace their current LIMS services.
It is the intention of each NHS Health Board to enter into a ten-year call off contracts (plus 2 x 36 month extension options) pursuant to which LIMS and related services will be delivered.
The contract will deliver services to entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 as amended, Integration Joint Boards established pursuant to the Public Bodies (Joint Working)(Scotland) Act 2014 and any local authorities established pursuant to the Local Government, etc. (Scotland) Act 1994.
A genetics system may be provided under this framework agreement. Hosting of the services may be provided under individual call-off contracts.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Suppliers are required to provide statement of accounts or extracts relating to their business for the previous 3 years.
Where any are risks identified by the authority as part of the due diligence carried out on the above information the authority may require bidders to provide additional information to demonstrate financial standing. Additional information can include but not be limited to:
Bidders who cannot provide suitable evidence of a secure financial standing may be excluded from the procurement.
The turnover of the economic operator in respect of its most recent two full financial years must have been equal to or more than GBP 2 500 000 per annum.
It is a requirement of this contract that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commence of any subsequently awarded contract, the types and levels of insurance indicated below:

Eligibility requirements: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Award value: 216000000