Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
162 City Rd
London
UK
E-mail: commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net
NUTS: UKI
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/
Address of the buyer profile: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home
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
Provision of Electronic Eyecare Referral System to Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement London Region
II.1.2) Main CPV code
72000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
NHSX have created a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to enable the rapid transformation of new referral management pathways for ophthalmology patients.
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have awarded a contract for an Electronic Eyecare Referral System on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement London Region. The Electronic Eyecare Referral System will provide Optometrists access to modern eye care electronic referral services that are capable of supporting the current and future needs of ophthalmologist and other eye care professionals.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
379 727.92
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
72200000
72210000
72212000
72260000
48510000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKI
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
NHSX have created a Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) to enable the rapid transformation of new referral management pathways for ophthalmology patients. Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have awarded a contract for an Electronic Eyecare Referral System via the DPS on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement London Region.
This procurement process is looking to address and improve the connectivity that links primary care optometry and the hospital eye service which is seen as key to improving eye care services in England.
The ambition is to have numerous trained and well-equipped primary care optometrists with the ability to make clinical decisions based on quantitative and imaging clinical data. This will provide significant opportunities to use digital connectivity to improve eye care.
NHSX considers digital solutions that increase connectivity between different providers of eye care horizontally and vertically, and across primary and secondary care, to be a key enabler for the national outpatient transformation programme. This will rapidly restore and ensure continuation of eye care services during Covid-19 and transform how services are delivered in the future.
There are 17 major trust providers covering over 31 sites in London and 936 optical practices across 5 Integrated Care Systems (North East, South East, South West, North West and North Central London). Each Integrated Care System (ICS) has its own configurations of optical practice software and ophthalmology IT systems with some optical practices and ophthalmology departments still using paper records.
This procurement process was facilitated by the NHS England National and Commercial Procurement Hub (commissioned from the SCW CSU) on behalf of the Commissioners.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
/ Weighting: N/A
Price
/ Weighting:
N/A
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
Option to extend for up to 2 years at 12 monthly intervals.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
Year 1 will focus on a proof of concept on North Central London. At full deployment across London contract value would total GBP 1 811 573 annually.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Restricted procedure
IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
A dynamic purchasing system was set up
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2020/S 230-568420
Section V: Award of contract
Title: Provision of Electronic Eyecare Referral System to Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust On behalf of NHS London Region
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
31/03/2021
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 8
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 7
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 8
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Evolutio Care Innovations Ltd
Newtown House, Newtown Road
Henley on Thames
RG9 1HG
UK
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
URL: https://www.evolutio-ophthalmology.co.uk/about-us/
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 379 727.92
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
London
EC1V 2PD
UK
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
London
EC1V 2PD
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
As described in VI.3, deadline for lodging of appeals should be in accordance with Regulation 87 and Regulation 91 of the 2015 Regulations.
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
London
EC1V 2PD
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
27/04/2021