Prior information notice
This notice is for prior information only
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)
4-5 Charnwood Court,, Heol Billingsley, Parc Nantgarw
Cardiff
CF15 7QZ
UK
Telephone: +44 1443848585
E-mail: hywel.jones9@wales.nhs.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://nwssp.nhs.wales/ourservices/procurement-services/
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0221
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Health
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Infection Control System
Reference number: AW 088
II.1.2) Main CPV code
48000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Supplies
II.1.4) Short description
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership are looking to procure a networked All Wales Infection Prevention and Control Case Management, reporting and surveillance system for use across NHS Wales Health Boards and Trusts.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
48100000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKL
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership are facilitating a procurement on behalf of Public Health Wales NHS Trust (PHW). The requirement is for national Infection Prevention and Control case management, reporting and surveillance software, fully networked across NHS Wales Health Boards and Trusts with functionality to provide an interfaced system across NHS Wales’ clinical systems (including but not limited to laboratory, patient management and theatre) in addition to the provision of a national level repository for surveillance and reporting.
PHW are seeking to explore alternatives to their current commercially supported system in use since 2016. The purpose of this pre-market engagement exercise is to assess the capabilities of the market and to enable NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership to refine its specification and approach to the procurement of this requirement. Indicative pricing will also be requested as part of this pre-market engagement.
The system must support – and be customisable by – local clinical teams, while also supporting a fully networked, national i.e. All Wales approach to Infection Prevention and Control case management, reporting and surveillance.
The system must support the migration of existing data from the current system, support the import of data from existing NHS Wales clinical systems and interface with downstream systems. The system must support the creation of a single patient record of infection by linking data from these systems.
The system must support bespoke and adjustable organism tagging, alerting and reporting functionality in accordance with a defined specification and support effective workflow management for clinical teams in respect to these organisms.
The systems must support the recording and management of outbreaks and incidents at a local and national level and support effective workflow management for clinical teams in respect to these events.
The system must support local and national level surveillance and reporting at least equivalent to the system currently in use, facilitated via both front end reporting tools and backend access to the underlying database.
NHS Wales has a ‘cloud first’ policy. As such, the preference would be a public cloud-hosted service. However, it is recognised that some suppliers may not yet provide their service over the cloud – in such cases, consideration will be given to an on-premise solution.
II.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice:
03/10/2022
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Interested suppliers are invited to attend a virtual engagement day to demonstrate their solutions on 4th June 2022.
If you are interested in demonstrating your solution, please note your interest in this notice and you will be contacted in order to ascertain suitability.
NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at http://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=122299.
(WA Ref:122299)
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
20/06/2022