Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-09-30
Buyer: Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 30210000 | 44316400 | 48600000 | 48810000: Information systems | 48814000: Medical information systems
Estimated value: 65000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-10-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Countess of Chester Hospital Commercial Procurement Services operates a successful national framework for a healthcare output and content management system that is due to expire on 29.2.2020. This notice concerns the invitation to tender for a new framework, commencing 1.3.2020.
The new framework will provide a healthcare output content management system that will enable participating organisations who call off contracts to access silos of information that typically sit across multiple best of breed clinical systems and various storage media. The system provide a single access point for information and enable migration to an entire digital information platform.
A healthcare output and content management system concerns the provision of hardware and software solutions and services that enable an NHS organisation to manage its output and data silos typically present within its best of breed clinical systems and other support systems. The system can be composed of several modular components which all work together to create a coherent platform for managing output and healthcare content to enrich hospitals’ existing investments in systems, such as, Electronic patient record (EPR) systems and Patient administration systems (PAS).
— user friendly, simple and clean single source access portal which presents data (stored and managed content) from all hospital clinical systems,
—— ability to manage healthcare content throughout its lifecycle, providing auditable information and appropriate security,
—— ability to capture and route new information from analogue and digital sources, including the provision of e-forms,
—— appropriate hardware to facilitate transition to digital patient records and a digital enterprise.
Bidders must offer a solution that encompasses all of the modular elements described in the ITT documents. These elements may be called-off and established individually to enable NHS organisations to adopt this technology with minimal impact to its patient services and available funding. Call-off contracts will include a road map of total or partial adoption. There is no obligation under this agreement for NHS organisations to commit to purchase all available modules. However, for the avoidance of doubt, this framework cannot be utilised to award a managed print/hardware service with no intention to ever adopt other modules provisioned in this framework. The purpose of this is to not distort the already well-established hardware market, which many other framework agreements already service.
1) Browse to the esourcing portal https://www.nhssourcing.co.uk and click on view current opportunities
3) Review the ITT, framework agreement specification, prerequisites and list of eligible users (you may do this without registering);
5) Accept the portal terms and conditions and click 'continue', enter your organisation and user details, note the username you chose and click 'Save' when complete, you will shortly receive an e-mail with your unique password (please keep this secure);
7) Click the 'PQQs/ITTs Open To All Suppliers' link. (These are pre-qualification questionnaires or invitations to tender open to any registered supplier);
9) Click the 'Express Interest' button at the top of the page. This will move the PQQ/ITT into your 'My PQQs/My ITTs' page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only). You can now access any attachments by clicking 'Buyer Attachments' in the 'PQQ/ITT Details' box;
10) Responding to the ITT. Click 'My Response' under 'PQQ/ITT Details', you can choose to 'Create Response' or to 'Decline to Respond' (please give a reason if declining). You can now use the messages function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification. Note the deadline for completion, then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the ITT There may be a mixture of online and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available). You must then submit your reply using the 'Submit Response' button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the online help, or contact the eTendering help desk.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the framework agreement is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the framework agreement is entered into the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).


Award value: 65000000