Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-07-08
Buyer: NHS Business Services Authority
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 72000000
Estimated value: 25000000 GBP

Technical requirements: The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to inform the market operators of a Supplier Bootcamp which the NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is hosting on 3rd to the 5th August 2016 related to the procurement of a contract for the provision of Managed Technical Infrastructure Services.
The NHSBSA is a Special Health Authority and an Arm's Length Body of the Department of Health. It provides a range of critical central services to NHS organisations, NHS contractors, patients and the public. The NHSBSA is responsible for processing £32bn of health and related expenditure across a diverse range of services.
The progression of the proposed Managed Technical Infrastructure Services procurement will be subject to Cabinet Office approval of the NHSBSA's Outline Business Case for its Information Technology Infrastructure Sourcing (ITIS) Programme. The ITIS Programme aims to secure the provision of IT infrastructure and IT service for the NHSBSA; putting in place new IT infrastructure, new service arrangements, new supply contracts, new governance and new ways of working for the NHSBSA's retained IT function.
The Supplier Bootcamp is one of the NHSBSA's preliminary market consultation activities, its purpose is to give the market a broad indication of the Managed Technical Infrastructure Services opportunity which the NHSBSA intends to offer and to receive feedback from the market as to the NHSBSA's proposed strategy to procure these services.
At the Supplier Bootcamp the NHSBSA will present and then offer all suppliers the opportunity of an individual meeting with members of the ITIS Programme Team.
These meetings will take place on the afternoon of the 3rd August and all day on both 4.8.2016 and 5.8.2016. Once suppliers register for the Supplier Bootcamp a request can be made for an individual meeting. Suppliers should be aware that the discussions at the individual meetings will be documented, and the resulting documents will be made publicly available as part of the Supplier Bootcamp Materials (see VI.2).
The NHS Business Services Authority will be holding a Supplier Bootcamp in Newcastle upon Tyne on the 3.8.2016, 4.8.2016 and 5.8.2016. If you would like to attend and receive additional related information, we will require you to RSVP by the 22nd July 2016. Please contact Saima Wahid via the Bravo E-Tendering System Supplier Mailbox using the following link: https://nhsbsa.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml
This notice is published to support the NHSBSA's preliminary market engagement for our planned Managed Technical Infrastructure Services. It is not a call for competition. It is currently intended that a contract notice will be published as a call for competition once the NHSBSA's proposed strategy is fully developed. An indicative timeline regarding the call for competition will be provided at the Supplier Bootcamp.
Additional related information provided and produced by the NHSBSA at the Supplier Bootcamp, including the slide packs indicative timeline, anonymised summary of the Q & A arising from the individual supplier meetings (see II.4) and the questions asked and answers given during the general sessions (the Supplier Bootcamp Materials) will be made available on the NHSBSA's website at https://nhsbsa.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml.
Interested suppliers who are unable to attend the Supplier Bootcamp should nevertheless register (using the details provided at II.8) in order to be notified when the Supplier Bootcamp Materials are available.
The anticipated high level scope of the NHSBSA's Managed Technical Infrastructure Service requirements is detailed in the following summary.
This summary is provided as an indication only as to the profile of the possible services, so as to allow potential bidders to determine their interest in attending the Supplier Bootcamp and/or receiving the Supplier Bootcamp Materials:
The NHSBSA IT Infrastructure, with the exception of the Pensions Service, is currently provided on a managed service basis through a single managed service with Capita Business Services Ltd.
The Government's strategy for public sector organisations is to disaggregate large, single supplier IT contracts and adopt a multi-sourcing model. In line with this strategy, the NHSBSA is planning for a future multi sourced IT operating model.
— To take on and manage the existing and future services and transition from the incumbent supplier data-centres.