Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-04-07
Buyer: University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Region: Inner London
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive dialogue
CPV classification: 32250000 | 32400000 | 32412000 | 32420000 | 32424000
Estimated value: 150000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-05-09
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: UCLH are seeking a Strategic Technology Partner (STP) that can work with the Trust to enhance its unified ICT Service model so that it fully supports the Trust's business objectives and vision for ICT, which is to ‘Create a digitally enabled organisation that provides staff and patients with access to the right systems, at the right place, at the right time to enable the delivery of efficient and effective patient cares’. The critical outcomes of the selection of an STP are to:
— Establish Digital Services as an ‘Intelligent Customer’ in how it can better source and manage commercial ICT services;
— Attain innovative technologies in support of the Trust's Strategic objectives and Transformation agenda;
— Deliver ‘value for money’ services i.e. delivering savings while maintaining and improving services;
We expect any contract awarded as a result of this procurement to run for up to 10 years (120 months) with 2 possible 12 month extensions.
Consortium bids are accepted but the authority may require the consortium to nominate a prime contractor and provide an appropriate form of company guarantee. For further details see the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire.
UCLH intend to restrict the maximum number of bidders due to the resource required by a Competitive Dialogue procedure and the time-scales in which the Trust wishes to reach a preferred bidder.
All PQQ documents can be accessed by registering with and logging into Multi-quote: https://suppliers.multiquote.com/Page/Login.aspx and quoting the Contract Reference CA3391. All clarification questions in relation to this Contract Notice and PQQ documents should be submitted to the Trust via the Multi-quote system.
The overall functional scope of the services of the Digital Services future landscape to be managed by a Strategic Technology Partner includes:
The intent of this procurement is to select a single provider for the entire scope of services under a Managed Service Agreement. The use of sub contractors is permitted but a prime contractor must be nominated.
— IS and IT services verification and validation including ensuring adherence to National and Local standards for clinical safely and patient care;
All of the above services are potentially in scope for the strategic technology partner, but the precise scope of services to be awarded to the successful bidder will be determined during the dialogue and prior to contract signature.
UCLH reserves the right not to contract for some or all of the services within the scope of this contract notice. UCLH reserves the right to phase the contracting for and/or implementation of the various services within this contract notice. In addition UCLH reserves the right to exit at any time (subject to contract provisions) from various services contracted for as a result of this procurement.
UCLH wishes to ensure that the principles of open book accounting, transparency, benchmarking and auditability are included within any contract resulting from this procurement.
UCLH reserves the right to procure services on behalf of any NHS body within the North Central London digital footprint under any contract resulting from this procurement, at any point in the future. Please see https://www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechnology/info-revolution/digital-roadmaps/footprints/london/#north for more information. It is not anticipated that these NHS Trusts will be a beneficiary of any services provided from contract award and their specific requirements have not been included within this procurement.

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