Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-26
Buyer: BSO C/O Procurement and Logistics Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 48100000 | 48151000 | 48180000 | 48422000 | 48517000
Submission deadline: 2018-07-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Integrated Electronic Health and Care Record for Health and Social Care Northern Ireland ("the encompass programme")
The Business services organisation (BSO) on behalf of Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI) wishes to procure the delivery, implementation and on going support and development of a fully integrated electronic health and care record solution across acute, community, social and primary care settings to provide a single health and social care record for every citizen in Northern Ireland.
It is envisaged that the Contract will be awarded by April 2019. The duration of the Contract will be 10 years with the option for the term to be extended by a further 5 years in 1 year increments. In addition there are a number of optional functionalities which BSO may consider. Please see Section VI.3 for further details on these options.
In Section 1.2 it is stated that this procurement is a joint procedure. Please note this is not a joint procedure. The Contracting Authority is BSO as stated in I.1 awarding on behalf of HSCNI as described in Section VI.3. Please see section VI.3 for full details of the encompass requirement
Estimated value excluding VAT is 90 000 000 GBP — 120 000 000 GBP in respect of the core solution. The core will include:
— Population health, screening and registry management and advanced reporting/analytics capabilities.
In addition to the core functionality referred to above, the solution should be capable of extension to provide functionality currently provided by other specialist systems or new functionality. As the Contracts for existing systems expire, HSCNI may seek to incorporate their functionality into the core electronic health and care record solution rather than replace them directly with new standalone systems. HSCNI wish to explore in the procurement process the potential optional replacement of the following:
Further detail is contained in the Memorandum of information available with the procurement documents on eTendersNI. The proposed contract will be entered into by BSO for the solution to be implemented as a single instance across Northern Ireland for use by those involved in the delivery of care on behalf of HSCNI. HSCNI means Health and Social care services in Northern Ireland being acute and community services provided by the 5 health trusts, ambulance trust, general practitioner surgeries and clinics, health boards and agencies and central government healthcare services organisations. BSO will incorporate a standstill period at the point information on the award of the Contract is communicated to tenderers. The 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 suppliers to challenge the award decision before the Contract is entered into. The Public Contract Regulations as amended 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). To apply for this opportunity bidders must be registered on the eTendersNI platform. To register please go to https:\\etendersni.gov.uk Help and Supplier Walkthrough Guides are available from the eTendersNi home page. A telephone helpline is also available from the home page or you may contact the helpdesk via email, ni-eproc-helpdesk@eurodyn.com.