Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-05-21
Buyer: The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care (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 | 72210000: Software programming services | 72230000: Custom software development services | 72262000: Software development services
Estimated value: 500000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-07-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS Digital acting as agent on behalf of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care intends to procure Digital Care Services. The GP IT Futures Framework Agreements together with connected call-off agreements will provide contract vehicles for, amongst others, GPs Practices, CCGs and other NHS providers to purchase systems and services which are assured on the Digital Buying Catalogue in Lot 1, and for the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care or NHS Digital to commission opportunity items on the published Standards Roadmap in Lot 2.
This will replace the current call-off agreements under the now expired Framework Agreements for the provision of GP Systems of Choice and related services procured pursuant to OJEU contract notice 2013/S 101-173284.
The GP IT Futures Framework Agreements will be procured and managed by NHS Digital on behalf of the Secretary of State for health and social care. Call-off ordering parties for the frameworks are detailed in this notice.
The services provided under the GP IT Futures Framework Lot 1 of the digital care services framework will cover the following:
— provision of applications, which will be described as “Catalogue Solutions”, to meet the business requirements of general practice and broader primary care and may incorporate community and adult social care providers.
Catalogue solutions will meet business requirements which are expressed at the highest level as capabilities. Capabilities represent the functions a system needs to be able to undertake.
— foundation capabilities which are functional capabilities that form the minimum, base or foundation set of functional capabilities required to support the day to day operation of general practice, and
— non-foundation capabilities which offer any form or operation of system functionality required by users including GPs, and healthcare professionals in broader primary care, community and social care settings.
— associated services which are services associated with the implementation or optimisation of a catalogue solution, that the call-off ordering parties have the option as to whether to purchase in association with their purchase of the catalogue solution, and
— additional services which are an augmentation of a catalogue solution provided by the supplier that may have its own charges and that may require the purchase of one or more of the associated services applicable to the catalogue solution it augments.
Call-off agreements awarded through the GP IT Futures Framework Lot 1 Framework Agreement may provide services to:
GP practices, GP federations and networks, primary care homes, primary care networks, multi-specialty community providers, other integrated care organisations, integrated care systems and other purchasers of primary care based systems.
Services sold under the GP IT Futures Framework Lot 1 Framework Agreement will generally be sold on the basis of Software as a Service (SaaS) with licences granted to customer users where appropriate.
Organisations seeking to be awarded a GP IT Futures Lot 1 Framework Agreement must confirm in their Tender that they have registered on the Digital Buying Catalogue, have executed a Catalogue Agreement and completed Stage 1 of the prescribed Catalogue On-Boarding Process for all Catalogue Solutions, Additional Services and Associated Services that they are seeking to make available on the GP IT Futures Lot 1 Framework Agreement.
The bodies listed below may potentially award a separate Framework Agreement(s) to suppliers who have been awarded a GP IT Futures Lot 1 Framework Agreement by the Contracting Authority (“Separate Framework Agreements"):


Award value: 500000000