Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-11-05
Buyer: NHS National Services Scotland
Country: UK
Region: SCOTLAND
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 48814400 | 72000000
Estimated value: 15000000 GBP
Award criteria: Quality, Price

Technical requirements: Quality
Price
We wish to procure a Scottish National multi-supplier HEPMA (Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicine Administration) Framework for IT systems. HEPMA systems facilitate and enhance the communication of a prescription or medicine order, aiding the choice,administration and supply of a medicine through knowledge and decision support and providing a robust audit trail for the entire process. Initially this will be at Hospital level.
The Multi-supplier HEPMA Framework needs to meet both the standard of functionality and the level of safety required by systems in the NHS in Scotland while leaving open the maximum choice of vendor to Health Boards.
We intend the Framework to be a multi-supplier framework and where some specific Scottish requirements are not initially met by Bidders they will be given the opportunity to modify their systems to meet our requirements. As each successful Bidder meets all of Scottish requirements they will become active on the framework and available for Boards to call off. Boards will be able to call off as soon as the first supplier(s) are available on the framework and need not wait for others to become active.
Further Contractors may be added should they re-submit their system for testing against our requirements within a year from the date this notice is published.
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: The Authority will notify economic operators who submitted a tender or (where no de-selection notification has previously been made) applied to be selected to tender, of its decision to award the framework agreement which notification will contain among other information, a summary of the reasons why the economic operator was unsuccessful. The notification will incorporate a ‘standstill period’ of a minimum of 10 clear calendar days (or a minimum of 15 if the communication method used is not electronic) between the date on which the Authority despatches the notice(s) and the date on which the Authority proposes to conclude the relevant framework agreement. The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority during the standstill period will automatically continue the prohibition on entering into the framework agreement until the court proceedings are determined, discontinued or disposed of, or the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition. The remedies that may be awarded by the courts before the framework agreement has been entered into include the setting aside of the decision to award the framework agreement to the winning tenderer(s). The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority after the framework agreement has been entered into will not affect the framework agreement unless grounds for the imposition of special penalties under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006 can be established. Otherwise the remedies that may be awarded by the courts where the framework agreement has been entered into are limited to the award of damages. Economic operators are entitled to write to the Authority after receipt of the notification should they require further clarification. The Authority will respond within 15 days of such a written request, but it should be noted that receipt by the Authority of such request during the standstill period may not prevent the Authority from awarding the framework agreement following the expiry of the standstill period. Where an economic operator is dissatisfied with the Authority's response to its request for clarification, or considers that the framework agreement has been concluded in breach of The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2006, such economic operator is advised to promptly seek independent legal advice.


Winner: Aberdeen City Council
Number of bids: 5