Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-06-25
Buyer: National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
Country: UK
Region: Greater Manchester
Contract type: Supplies
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 1 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-08-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NICE are looking to procure an Identity Provider (IdP) and Access Management Federation (AMF) Service that provides secure authentication and authorisation for users who are eligible and are seeking access to online licensed information resources (such as bibliographic databases, e-journals and e-books) purchased for the NHS.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is the national organisation that sets the standard for high-quality health and social care. We support health and social care professionals to ensure that the care they provide is of the highest quality and offers the best value for money. We produce authoritative, evidence based guidance on the most effective ways to diagnose, treat and prevent disease and ill health, and we set Quality Standards which can be used to drive quality improvement in a particular area of care. NICE are looking to procure an Identity Provider (IdP) and Access Management Federation (AMF) Service that provides secure authentication and authorisation for users who are eligible and are seeking access to online licensed information resources (such as bibliographic databases, e-journals and e-books) purchased for the NHS. This content could be purchased by individual Trusts, individual organisations, multiple organisations collectively (consortia), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Local Education Training Boards and Health Education England, on behalf of all, eligible staff. Further information will be provided in the Invitation to Tender documents posted as part of the Contract Notice, which can be a accessed at: www.gov.uk/contracts-finder
NICE will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day stand still period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenders. This Period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be requested from the contracting authority named in section l.1) If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales EN Standard form 02 — Contract notice 12 / 16 and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly (generally within 3 months). Where a contract has not been entered into, the Court may order the setting aside of the award decision or order the authority to amend any document and may award damages. If the contract has been entered into the Court may only award damages.

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Award value: 1