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Contract Notice

Digitisation of Lloyd George Medical Records for GP Practices across NHS Lancashire and South Cumbri

  • First published: 17 December 2019
  • Last modified: 17 December 2019

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Contents

Summary

OCID:
Published by:
NHS Morecambe Bay CCG
Authority ID:
AA78385
Publication date:
17 December 2019
Deadline date:
13 January 2020
Notice type:
Contract Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

This procurement for Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group is part of a larger digitisation programme and the first of 5 phases covering the 5 integrated care providers for Lancashire and South Cumbria. There will be potential to roll out to the rest of Lancashire and South Cumbria. This includes a further 200 practices across 4 Trusts and 7 clinical commissioning groups totalling circa 1 300 000 records.

Morcambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group covers 33 GP Practices with a typical practice size of circa 7 200 patients. Practices vary in size from around 1 000 patients to a larger practice of over 63 000 patients. Morecambe Bay has a dispersed population of 350 000 spread over 310 km2 and the list size stands at 394 073 Lloyd George Envelopes containing essential historical medical records for every patient.

Each Lloyd George envelope has a broad range of detailed personal information stored inside and maintaining the security and accuracy of these legacy records are vital. Many paper records are over 60 years old and in a state of decay and becoming unreadable, this is both clinically unsafe and legally non-compliant. Practices are required to retain good patient records and, where these are historic paper records, maintain them within the Lloyd George envelope. These files can be very paper-heavy and take up huge amounts of storage space on a practice site or in secondary storage areas, sometimes at significant costs to practices.

Lancashire and South Cumbria integrated care system are leading the procurement on behalf of clinical commissioning groups and integrated care partnerships in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Participating clinical commissioning groups and integrated care partnerships include:

— NHS Morecambe Bay CCG,

— NHS Greater Preston Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS Fylde and Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group.

The contract for scanning and the initial cloud solution will reside with the CCG.

This programme of work will deliver the following critical success factors:

Right time and quantity — delivery within the timescale, facilitated through excellent mobilisation and implementation, so as to avoid additional ad-hoc collections and processing.

Right quality and place — all Lloyd George/A4 records across the Lancashire and South Cumbria footprint (Morecambe Bay for phase 1) are scanned, uploaded to e-cloud solution, retained and destroyed in line with national British standards and as per requirements outlined in the specification.

Efficiency — Minimal disruption and burden to GP Practice staff and clinicians in delivering the contract

Full notice text

Contract notice

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name and addresses

NHS Morecambe Bay CCG

Preston

UK

Contact person: Garry Mitchell

E-mail: commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net

NUTS: UKD

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.morecambebayccg.nhs.uk

I.1) Name and addresses

NHS Greater Preston Clinical Commissioning Group

Leyland

UK

Contact person: Garry Mitchell

E-mail: commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net

NUTS: UKD

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.healthierlsc.co.uk

I.1) Name and addresses

NHS Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group

Leyland

UK

Contact person: Garry Mitchell

E-mail: commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net

NUTS: UKD

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.healthierlsc.co.uk

I.1) Name and addresses

NHS Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group

Blackburn

UK

Contact person: Garry Mitchell

E-mail: commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net

NUTS: UKD

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.healthierlsc.co.uk

I.1) Name and addresses

NHS East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group

Nelson

UK

Contact person: Garry Mitchell

E-mail: commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net

NUTS: UKD

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.healthierlsc.co.uk

I.1) Name and addresses

NHS Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group

Blackpool

UK

Contact person: Garry Mitchell

E-mail: commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net

NUTS: UKD

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.healthierlsc.co.uk

I.1) Name and addresses

NHS Fylde and Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group

Wakefield

UK

Contact person: Garry Mitchell

E-mail: commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net

NUTS: UKD

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.healthierlsc.co.uk

I.1) Name and addresses

NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group

Ormskirk

UK

Contact person: Garry Mitchell

E-mail: commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net

NUTS: UKD

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.healthierlsc.co.uk

I.2) Joint procurement

The contract involves joint procurement

The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body

I.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home


Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address


Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to 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

Digitisation of Lloyd George Medical Records for GP Practices across NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICS

II.1.2) Main CPV code

79999100

 

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

Lancashire and South Cumbria integrated care system have been part of the national NHSX teams acceleration programme in which they have secured funding to enable Morcambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group to fully digitise their Lloyd George medical records. This is in accordance with the General Medical Services Contract Reform 2019 to digitise all Lloyd George records in a phased approach across the integrated care system footprint by 2023.

This procurement for Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group is part of a larger digitisation programme and the first of 5 phases covering the 5 integrated care providers for Lancashire and South Cumbria. There will be potential to roll out to the rest of Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Morecambe Bay has funding to fully digitise their Lloyd George medical records to a cloud solution which will not only create efficiencies within general practice but free up much needed space within the practice.

II.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: 4 200 000.00  GBP

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.2) Description

II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

79996100

72512000

60000000

92512100

72317000

63121100

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UKD


Main site or place of performance:

UKD North West England, UKD1 Cumbria, UKD4 Lancashire.

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

This procurement for Morecambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group is part of a larger digitisation programme and the first of 5 phases covering the 5 integrated care providers for Lancashire and South Cumbria. There will be potential to roll out to the rest of Lancashire and South Cumbria. This includes a further 200 practices across 4 Trusts and 7 clinical commissioning groups totalling circa 1 300 000 records.

Morcambe Bay Clinical Commissioning Group covers 33 GP Practices with a typical practice size of circa 7 200 patients. Practices vary in size from around 1 000 patients to a larger practice of over 63 000 patients. Morecambe Bay has a dispersed population of 350 000 spread over 310 km2 and the list size stands at 394 073 Lloyd George Envelopes containing essential historical medical records for every patient.

Each Lloyd George envelope has a broad range of detailed personal information stored inside and maintaining the security and accuracy of these legacy records are vital. Many paper records are over 60 years old and in a state of decay and becoming unreadable, this is both clinically unsafe and legally non-compliant. Practices are required to retain good patient records and, where these are historic paper records, maintain them within the Lloyd George envelope. These files can be very paper-heavy and take up huge amounts of storage space on a practice site or in secondary storage areas, sometimes at significant costs to practices.

Lancashire and South Cumbria integrated care system are leading the procurement on behalf of clinical commissioning groups and integrated care partnerships in Lancashire and South Cumbria.

Participating clinical commissioning groups and integrated care partnerships include:

— NHS Morecambe Bay CCG,

— NHS Greater Preston Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS Blackburn with Darwen Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS East Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS Blackpool Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS Fylde and Wyre Clinical Commissioning Group,

— NHS West Lancashire Clinical Commissioning Group.

The contract for scanning and the initial cloud solution will reside with the CCG.

This programme of work will deliver the following critical success factors:

Right time and quantity — delivery within the timescale, facilitated through excellent mobilisation and implementation, so as to avoid additional ad-hoc collections and processing.

Right quality and place — all Lloyd George/A4 records across the Lancashire and South Cumbria footprint (Morecambe Bay for phase 1) are scanned, uploaded to e-cloud solution, retained and destroyed in line with national British standards and as per requirements outlined in the specification.

Efficiency — Minimal disruption and burden to GP Practice staff and clinicians in delivering the contract

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

II.2.6) Estimated value

Value excluding VAT: 4 200 000.00  GBP

II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Start: 26/03/2020

End: 31/03/2021

This contract is subject to renewal: Yes

Description of renewals:

Option to extend up to the end of March 2023.

II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited

II.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: Yes

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: Yes

Description of options:

Option to extend up to the end of March 2023.

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

This procurement for Morecambe Bay CCG is part of a larger digitisation programme and the first of 5 phases covering the 5 integrated care providers for Lancashire and South Cumbria. There will be potential to roll out to the rest of Lancashire and South Cumbria. This includes a further 200 practices across 4 Trusts and 7 clinical commissioning groups totalling circa 1 300 000 records.

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

III.1) Conditions for participation

III.1.2) Economic and financial standing

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents


III.1.3) Technical and professional ability

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents


III.2) Conditions related to the contract

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Restricted 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.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date: 13/01/2020

Local time: 12:00

IV.2.3) Estimated date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

Date: 03/02/2020

IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

EN

IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

Duration in months: 6 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: No

VI.3) Additional information

Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the ‘current tenders’ list on the eProcurement system inTend, available on the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home

In order to submit a bid, you will need to be registered on the eProcurement system and ‘express an interest’ and then complete a response as specified within the procurement documents.

On registration, please include at least 2 contacts to allow for access to the system in times of absence.

The services are deemed to be subject to the full regime of current EU procurement legislation and as such this tender will be conducted in accordance with and governed by, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This contract will therefore be awarded in accordance with the provisions applicable in Section 5 (sub-section 7) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

The contracting authority intends to observe the provisions and 10 day standstill period described in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Unsuccessful bidders and applicants will receive scores and reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the bidder/applicant was unsuccessful. Deadlines for lodging appeals should be in accordance with the Regulations.

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

NHS Morecambe Bay CCG

Preston

UK

E-mail: mlcsu.customercarelancashire@nhs.net

VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures

NHS Morecambe Bay CCG

Preston

UK

E-mail: mlcsu.customercarelancashire@nhs.net

VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained

NHS Morecambe Bay CCG

Preston

UK

E-mail: mlcsu.customercarelancashire@nhs.net

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

13/12/2019

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
92512100 Archive destruction services Archive services
72317000 Data storage services Data-processing services
72512000 Document management services Computer-related management services
79996100 Records management Business organisation services
79999100 Scanning services Scanning and invoicing services
63121100 Storage services Storage and retrieval services
60000000 Transport services (excl. Waste transport) Transport and Related Services

Delivery locations

ID Description
100 UK - All

Alert region restrictions

The buyer has restricted the alert for this notice to suppliers based in the following regions.

ID Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

About the buyer

Main contact:
commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
N/a

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