Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-18
Buyer: NHS Commissioning Board (known as NHS England) (for whom the Health and Social Care Information Centre (known as NHS Digital) is acting as agent)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 48000000 | 48180000 | 48200000 | 48515000 | 72000000
Estimated value: 75000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2021-01-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Υπηρεσίες τεχνολογίας των πληροφοριών: παροχή συμβουλών, ανάπτυξη λογισμικού, Διαδίκτυο και υποστήριξη
NHS England and NHS Improvement are seeking to establish a new Digital First Online Consultation and Video Consultation framework (DFOCVC), which will operate under the existing digital care services catalogue.
This new framework will replace elements of the existing Dynamic Purchasing System (OJEU contract notice reference: 2020/S 063-151950) and GP IT Futures Framework (OJEU contract notice reference: 2019/S 097-235142) as the preferred framework vehicle for customers to purchase the in-scope services.
In addition to primary care, other health and social care organisations that purchase services via this framework may include, but are not limited to, secondary care providers, community pharmacies, urgent care providers, ambulance trusts, optometry and dentistry providers.
NHSE/I intend to add the provision of general practice medical services to the DFOCVC framework at a later date. See section II.2) for more information.
North East (ENGLAND), Yorkshire and the Humber, North West (ENGLAND), East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London
NHS England has responsibility for delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan commitment that patients will have the right to digital first primary care by 2023/2024. This work includes the commitment to support online consultation in general practice which began under the GP Forward View.
NHS England is seeking suitably experienced and qualified suppliers to join the Digital First Online Consultation and Video Consultation framework, which will operate under the existing digital care services catalogue. Further information on the catalogue can be found at the following URL: https://buyingcatalogue.digital.nhs.uk/
NHSE/I intend to add the provision of general practice medical services to the DFOCVC framework at a later date under the contractual change process. The addition of the medical services will have the following features:
1) medical services will only be able to be supplied by a supplier to a service recipient that is in receipt of their online and/or video consultation services;
2) the medical services will be subject to additional terms and conditions that are appropriate to their provision;
3) suppliers will be required to provide utilisation reports regarding the provision of the medical services to NHSE/I.
The framework will support NHS England in its delivery of the NHS Long Term Plan commitment that every patient will have the right to be offered digital-first primary care by 2023/2024. The framework will build on from the online consultation programme, which was originally introduced under the GP Forward View and which has been expanded under NHS England’s Dynamic Purchasing system and through digital care services GPIT futures framework. Alignment of the new framework within digital care services catalogue will support NHS England’s ambition to have a sole procurement route for primary care, which will provide a unified set of centrally understood standards.
To support the development of the new framework, the digital care services catalogue authority have developed new capabilities and standards to more accurately reflect the requirements of online and video consultation solutions. Supplier solutions will be required to meet the requirements of the capability and standards model as set out at the following URL: https://gpitbjss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DFOCVCL/overview?homepageId=5132484853
In addition to primary care, other health and social care organisations that purchase services via this framework may include, but are not limited to: secondary care providers, community pharmacies, urgent care providers, ambulance trusts, optometry and dentistry providers.


Award value: 75000000