Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-08-31
Buyer: Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48600000 | 48983000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 731885 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
The authority has appointed a provider to support two strands of research work in respect of engineering support for research database build, training and capacity building to explore ophthalmic images using artificial intelligence systems as a means of deploying valuable clinical insights to better understand and stratify ophthalmic or related diseases. The authority has two key strategic research collaborations, and although both have similar requirements, the contractual relationships are similar, as are the outputs, however the authority has adopted a two (2) lot approach for this procurement. One lot will support the one project and the other lot will support the other.
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MEH) has appointed a suitably experienced and qualified Service provider to provide services relating to the Insight Project (Lot 1) and Collaboration (Lot 2).
The authority and University College London Institute of Ophthalmology formulated a research informatics strategy to bring in to focus the importance of a robust data infrastructure for the research ambitions of the authority and to identify the infrastructure requirements to build capacity.
In September 2019 the Authority entered a partnership agreement that launched “Insight” – Health Data Research Hub for Eye Health. Insight is one of seven Hubs under the national programme funded and operated by Health Data Research UK (HDRUK). Insight is an exciting and ground-breaking partnership between:
Insight is focused on eye health and its connection to wider health issues, including diabetes and dementia. It will use anonymised, large-scale data and advanced analytics, including artificial intelligence, to develop new Insights in disease detection, diagnosis, treatments and personalised healthcare. Further information about Insight is available via: https://www.insight.hdrhub.org/
• provide the Moorfields user community with an interface to allow them to query, search and access the data;
• produce INSIGHT’S combined data/datasets, a metadata catalogue and a means for external users and potential users to see the data/datasets available;
• make the INSIGHT data discoverable and accessible via the HDRUK Innovation Gateway (https:// www.hdruk.ac.uk/infrastructure/gateway/);
An Open OJEU tender process has been run for the provision of services relating to the Technical Insight Support. This procurement has been run as two separate Lots, under one procurement process. The details for Lot 1 is as follows:
Lot 1 — INSIGHT Project — INSIGHT required the development of the research data platform and cloud infrastructure with UHB.
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MEH) has appointed a suitably experienced and qualified service provider to provide services relating to the INSIGHT Project (Lot 1) and Collaboration (Lot 2).
The authority and University College London Institute of Ophthalmology formulated a research informatics strategy to bring in to focus the importance of a robust data infrastructure for the research ambitions of the authority and to identify the infrastructure requirements to build capacity.
In September 2019 the authority entered a partnership agreement that launched ‘Insight’ – health data research hub for eye health. Insight is one of seven Hubs under the national programme funded and operated by Health Data Research UK (HDRUK). Insight is an exciting and ground-breaking partnership between:
INSIGHT is focused on eye health and its connection to wider health issues, including diabetes and dementia. It will use anonymised, large-scale data and advanced analytics, including artificial intelligence, to develop new insights in disease detection, diagnosis, treatments and personalised healthcare. Further information about INSIGHT is available via: https://www.insight.hdrhub.org/.


Winner: Softwire Technology Ltd
Award value: 731885
Number of bids: 4