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Contract Award Notice

MEH Technical INSIGHT Support

  • First published: 31 August 2020
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Summary

OCID:
Published by:
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Authority ID:
AA78743
Publication date:
31 August 2020
Deadline date:
-
Notice type:
Contract Award Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MEH) has appointed a suitably experienced and qualified Service provider to provide services relating to the Insight Project (Lot 1) and Collaboration (Lot 2).

The authority and University College London Institute of Ophthalmology formulated a research informatics strategy to bring in to focus the importance of a robust data infrastructure for the research ambitions of the authority and to identify the infrastructure requirements to build capacity.

In September 2019 the Authority entered a partnership agreement that launched “Insight” – Health Data Research Hub for Eye Health. Insight is one of seven Hubs under the national programme funded and operated by Health Data Research UK (HDRUK). Insight is an exciting and ground-breaking partnership between:

• the NHS, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) and the Authority;

• Academia (University of Birmingham);

• Charities (Action Against Age-related Macular Degeneration) and

• Industry partners.

Insight is focused on eye health and its connection to wider health issues, including diabetes and dementia. It will use anonymised, large-scale data and advanced analytics, including artificial intelligence, to develop new Insights in disease detection, diagnosis, treatments and personalised healthcare. Further information about Insight is available via: https://www.insight.hdrhub.org/

The authority’s tasks and responsibility in the Insight partnership are to:

• develop a research data platform for the storage, processing and sharing of Moorfields data;

• provide the Moorfields user community with an interface to allow them to query, search and access the data;

• work closely with the UHB Informatics team to develop UHB’s aligned datasets;

• produce INSIGHT’S combined data/datasets, a metadata catalogue and a means for external users and potential users to see the data/datasets available;

• set up the cloud platforms for the storage of Moorfields, UHB and combined Insight data;

• make the INSIGHT data discoverable and accessible via the HDRUK Innovation Gateway (https:// www.hdruk.ac.uk/infrastructure/gateway/);

• make the anonymised INSIGHT data available where there has been approval granted.

An Open OJEU tender process has been run for the provision of services relating to the Technical Insight Support. This procurement has been run as two separate Lots, under one procurement process. The details for Lot 1 is as follows:

Lot 1 — INSIGHT Project — INSIGHT required the development of the research data platform and cloud infrastructure with UHB.

Full notice text

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 Road

London

EC1 V2PD

UK

E-mail: rf.ppstenders@nhs.net

NUTS: UKI

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.lppsourcing.org

Address of the buyer profile: https://www.lppsourcing.org

I.2) Joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body

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

MEH Technical INSIGHT Support

Reference number: DN468512

II.1.2) Main CPV code

72000000

 

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

The authority has appointed a provider to support two strands of research work in respect of engineering support for research database build, training and capacity building to explore ophthalmic images using artificial intelligence systems as a means of deploying valuable clinical insights to better understand and stratify ophthalmic or related diseases. The authority has two key strategic research collaborations, and although both have similar requirements, the contractual relationships are similar, as are the outputs, however the authority has adopted a two (2) lot approach for this procurement. One lot will support the one project and the other lot will support the other.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: Yes

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement

Value excluding VAT: 731 885.00  GBP

II.2) Description

Lot No: 1

II.2.1) Title

INSIGHT Project

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

48000000

48600000

48983000

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UK

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MEH) has appointed a suitably experienced and qualified Service provider to provide services relating to the Insight Project (Lot 1) and Collaboration (Lot 2).

The authority and University College London Institute of Ophthalmology formulated a research informatics strategy to bring in to focus the importance of a robust data infrastructure for the research ambitions of the authority and to identify the infrastructure requirements to build capacity.

In September 2019 the Authority entered a partnership agreement that launched “Insight” – Health Data Research Hub for Eye Health. Insight is one of seven Hubs under the national programme funded and operated by Health Data Research UK (HDRUK). Insight is an exciting and ground-breaking partnership between:

• the NHS, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) and the Authority;

• Academia (University of Birmingham);

• Charities (Action Against Age-related Macular Degeneration) and

• Industry partners.

Insight is focused on eye health and its connection to wider health issues, including diabetes and dementia. It will use anonymised, large-scale data and advanced analytics, including artificial intelligence, to develop new Insights in disease detection, diagnosis, treatments and personalised healthcare. Further information about Insight is available via: https://www.insight.hdrhub.org/

The authority’s tasks and responsibility in the Insight partnership are to:

• develop a research data platform for the storage, processing and sharing of Moorfields data;

• provide the Moorfields user community with an interface to allow them to query, search and access the data;

• work closely with the UHB Informatics team to develop UHB’s aligned datasets;

• produce INSIGHT’S combined data/datasets, a metadata catalogue and a means for external users and potential users to see the data/datasets available;

• set up the cloud platforms for the storage of Moorfields, UHB and combined Insight data;

• make the INSIGHT data discoverable and accessible via the HDRUK Innovation Gateway (https:// www.hdruk.ac.uk/infrastructure/gateway/);

• make the anonymised INSIGHT data available where there has been approval granted.

An Open OJEU tender process has been run for the provision of services relating to the Technical Insight Support. This procurement has been run as two separate Lots, under one procurement process. The details for Lot 1 is as follows:

Lot 1 — INSIGHT Project — INSIGHT required the development of the research data platform and cloud infrastructure with UHB.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion: Quality / Weighting: 80 %

Price / Weighting:  20 %

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No

Lot No: 2

II.2.1) Title

Collaboration Project

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

48000000

48600000

48983000

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UK

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (MEH) has appointed a suitably experienced and qualified service provider to provide services relating to the INSIGHT Project (Lot 1) and Collaboration (Lot 2).

The authority and University College London Institute of Ophthalmology formulated a research informatics strategy to bring in to focus the importance of a robust data infrastructure for the research ambitions of the authority and to identify the infrastructure requirements to build capacity.

In September 2019 the authority entered a partnership agreement that launched ‘Insight’ – health data research hub for eye health. Insight is one of seven Hubs under the national programme funded and operated by Health Data Research UK (HDRUK). Insight is an exciting and ground-breaking partnership between:

• the NHS, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) and the authority;

• Academia (University of Birmingham);

• Charities (Action Against Age-related Macular Degeneration) and

• Industry partners.

INSIGHT is focused on eye health and its connection to wider health issues, including diabetes and dementia. It will use anonymised, large-scale data and advanced analytics, including artificial intelligence, to develop new insights in disease detection, diagnosis, treatments and personalised healthcare. Further information about INSIGHT is available via: https://www.insight.hdrhub.org/.

The authority’s tasks and responsibility in the Insight partnership are to:

• develop a research data platform for the storage, processing and sharing of Moorfields data;

• provide the Moorfields user community with an interface to allow them to query, search and access the data;

• work closely with the UHB Informatics team to develop UHB’s aligned datasets;

• produce Insight’s combined data/datasets, a metadata catalogue and a means for external users and potential users to see the data/datasets available;

• set up the cloud platforms for the storage of Moorfields, UHB and combined Insight data;

• make the Insight data discoverable and accessible via the HDRUK Innovation Gateway (https://www.hdruk.ac.uk/infrastructure/gateway/);

• make the anonymised Insight data available where there has been approval granted.

An Open OJEU tender process has run for the provision of services relating to the technical INSIGHT support. This procurement has been run as two separate lots, under one procurement process. The details for lot 2 is as follows:

Lot 2: Collaboration project — required the development of resources required to support the collaboration between the authority and a technical industry partner.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion: Quality / Weighting: 80 %

Price / Weighting:  20 %

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

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 056-134572

Section V: Award of contract

Lot No: 1

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

V.2 Award of contract

V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

01/08/2020

V.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 4

Number of tenders received from SMEs: 3

Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 0

Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0

Number of tenders received by electronic means: 4

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Softwire Technology Ltd

Gallery Court, 28 Arcadia Avenue

London

N3 2FG

UK

NUTS: UK

Internet address(es)

URL: https://www.lppsourcing.org

The contractor is an SME: Yes

V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot: : 731 885.00  GBP

V.2.5) Information about subcontracting

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

The High Court of Justice

The Royal Court of Justice, the Strand

London

UK

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

26/08/2020

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
48600000 Database and operating software package Software package and information systems
48983000 Development software package Programming languages and tools
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support Computer and Related Services
48000000 Software package and information systems Computer and Related Services

Delivery locations

ID Description
100 UK - All

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ID Description
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About the buyer

Main contact:
rf.ppstenders@nhs.net
Admin contact:
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Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

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