Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Business Services Organisation
Centre House, 79 Chichester Street
Belfast
BT1 4JR
UK
Contact person: Cathy Fegan
E-mail: cathy.fegan@hscni.net
NUTS: UKN0
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.hscbusiness.hscni.net/
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.hscbusiness.hscni.net/
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
Purchase of Support and Maintenance Cover, Service Desk, Engineering and Training Services Specific to 123 GP Practices using the Vision 3 Clinical System
Reference number: STA 8078
II.1.2) Main CPV code
72000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Purchase of support and maintenance cover, service desk, engineering and training services specific to 123 GP practices using the Vision 3 clinical system as previously provided through the GPsoC Lot 2 Framework.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Lowest offer:
1 300 000.00
GBP/ Highest offer:
2 300 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKN0
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
This procurement is for the purchase of the support and maintenance cover, service desk, engineering and training services specific to 123 GP practices using the Vision 3 clinical system which was previously provided through the GPsoC Lot 2 Framework.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price
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
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition
Justification for selected award procedure:
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason: absence of competition for technical reasons
Explanation
To enable the Vision system to meet the needs of the practices, it must be interoperate with other specific hardware and software – such as patient check-in and patient call systems.
This ‘additional’ hardware and software, previously supplied by Vision under the ‘GPSoC Lot 2 Additional GP IT Services’ agreement, must be compatible with Vision if it is to function correctly. The procurement and use of hardware and software provided by anyone other than Vision introduces significant risk of failure and disruption to practices due to the high potential for incompatibility between this hardware and software and the Vision system.
Further, Vision is currently responsible for the Vision clinical system and for the specific hardware and software. The responsibility for resolving any issues of interoperability between these components rests solely with Vision. The supply of such hardware and software by an additional 3rd party would introduce risk and uncertainty into the support process where it is likely that both suppliers would blame each other for any failures, so delaying resolution and prolonging disruption to practices.
This pairing of Vision with the specific hardware and software is in place in the 123 practices. To ensure that the equipment continues to operate as intended, the supply of replacement hardware components, as well as relevant engineering services, is required. The supply of incompatible components or the provision of engineering services by non-Vision engineers significantly increases the risk of failure and prolonging disruption to practices.
Given the close alignment of the specific hardware and software with the Vision clinical system, training on these can only be provided by Vision.
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:
2019/S 235-576914
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: STA 8078
Title: Purchase of Support and Maintenance Cover, Service Desk, Engineering and Training Services Specific to 123 GP Practices Using the Vision 3 Clinical System
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
22/01/2020
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Vision
London
SW8 3QJ
UK
NUTS: UKI
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
Lowest offer:
1 300 000.00
GBP
/ Highest offer:
2 300 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Business Services Organisation
2 Franklin Street
Belfast
BT2 8DQ
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
29/01/2020