Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-11-15
Buyer: The Chancellor, Masters and Scholars of the University of Cambridge
Country: UK
Region: East Anglia
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Accelerated negotiated procedure
CPV classification: 72000000 | 79400000
Submission deadline: 2016-12-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The University wishes to appoint companies to provide services associated with the design, and implementation a system for e-Consent.
Providing accessible but secure identifiers against which data and consents can be safely recorded in a way that safeguards PID.
Providing channels for data transfer between systems and any reformatting of transferred data required for its aggregation or use by studies.
The University acting on behalf of the Cambridge NIHR BioResource, has a requirement for a design and build of a system for e-Consent for use in various Research studies.
Today the consent process is managed ‘on paper’ which results in a safe process but 1 which is inflexible, extensive and difficult to administer. This work is part of a series of activities which will (by 2022):
— Provide a common safe and secure service for a variety of research studies delivered on a variety of devices in different contexts;
— Support a safe, secure bridge service across identifiable data sets and systems within the NHS and various anonymised data environments;
— Deliver a service capable of scaling to 1m subjects, integrated, synchronised and accessible from both the N3 network and the Internet.
The scope is so broad that it is not possible to write a detailed specification at present so we wish to see what the market has to offer. This is an new opportunity which has just been identified and it is imperative that a solution is found and implemented before the funding runs out in March 2017.
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