Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
OUR FUTURE HEALTH
6 Stanley Street
SALFORD
M35GS
UK
Contact person: CURSHAW Ltd, acting on behalf of Our Future Health
E-mail: ourfuturehealth@curshaw.com
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://ourfuturehealth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/OFH-CITRERB.zip
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
Other: Health Research and Development
I.5) Main activity
Other: Health research
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Cloud Infrastructure, Trusted Research Environment, and Researcher Billing Contract
Reference number: OFH-CITRERB-20220303
II.1.2) Main CPV code
72222300
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Our Future Health aims to be the UK's largest ever health research programme. It is designed to help people live healthier lives for longer through the discovery and testing of more effective approaches to prevention, earlier detection and treatment of diseases.
Our Future Health aims to procure:
- secure and scalable public cloud infrastructure to support our health research programme
- a trusted research environment (TRE) to enable registered and approved researchers to access and use data within a secure environment
- a partner to manage the billing of cloud compute and storage costs for researchers using the TRE
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
Yes
Tenders may be submitted for all lots
Maximum number of lots that may be awarded to one tenderer: 3
The contracting authority reserves the right to award contracts combining the following lots or groups of lots:
Regardless of the evaluation outcome, Our Future Health will award two contracts for:\n- Lot 1 (with or without Lot 3)\n- Lot 2 (with or without Lot 3)
II.2) Description
Lot No: 1
II.2.1) Title
Cloud infrastructure
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
72222300
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Our Future Health aims to procure secure and scalable public cloud infrastructure to support a health research programme. The selected supplier will be one of our most important technology partners as we build and scale our systems. The cloud infrastructure will underpin web sites and apps used by our participants, a data store and data processing systems, a trusted research environment (TRE) and associated systems used by researchers from around the world, and underlying systems to operate and monitor the programme.
The selected supplier will provide UK hosting for secure public cloud infrastructure with a comprehensive set of standard compute, storage and infrastructure services. We are interested to work with cloud providers that have good availability of TRE providers already working within their systems.
Estimated value excluding VAT: between £3m and £6.5m over 3 years; £20m over 5 years
We expect costs to increase as participant numbers increase. Total projected costs during years 1-3 of the contractual arrangement would be between £3m and £6.5m and over 5 years we expect a range of £9m - £21m. We will not be able to predict a narrower range until we have more clarity during 2022 about which services will be hosted in our cloud and which with suppliers, as well as more detailed technical and data architecture that will happen following this procurement. Note that these costs include only Our Future Health usage of our cloud, not that of the researchers using the TRE billed separated by the Lot 3 supplier. The total cloud expenditure will therefore be considerably greater than the value of our contract.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 36
This contract is subject to renewal: Yes
Description of renewals:
Extensions of up to 12 months (per renewal) subject to a maximum Term of 5 years in total
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:
No
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
The contract includes options to provide additional services which are detailed in the procurement documents
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
To respond to this opportunity please email ourfuturehealth@curshaw.com stating in the subject line that this tender relates to Lot 1
Lot No: 2
II.2.1) Title
Trusted research environment
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
72222300
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Our Future Health is planning to procure a trusted research environment (TRE) to enable registered researchers to access and use data within a single secure environment to conduct approved research studies. The success of Our Future Health rests on the research that is done with the data and the cohort, together with our commitment to robust security, strict governance and participant confidentiality. A TRE is an environment, that may be cloud-based, that allows registered researchers working on an approved study to conduct analysis on de-identified or pseudonymised datasets in a secure manner, where export of results data is permitted but exports of individual level data is not permitted. It is expected that a TRE will create a separate partitioned workspace for each approved study, allow registered researchers to use a variety of common tools for data science, analysis, and research (including large-scale genomic analysis), to upload additional tools and datasets subject to the security restrictions of the environment, to have flexibility in their use of compute and storage resources. A TRE should maintain the access control and secure boundary to prevent unauthorised access to or download of data, and to maintain auditable access and usage logs.
The selected TRE (lot 2) will be expected to run on the selected cloud infrastructure (lot 1), with the selected provider of researcher billing (lot 3) providing services to manage the cost and billing of cloud usage by researchers in the TRE.
We hope to have a beta version of a TRE tested and launched by the end of Q3 2022, and a full version tested and launched by the end of Q4 2022.
Estimated value excluding VAT: between £2m and £3.15m over 3 years; between £3m and £4.75m over 5 years
We are assuming that set-up costs will range between £0.5 and £1m. Any separately charged set-up will be milestone driven and payable on the successful completion of the key steps in the implementation and integration. Total committed costs therefore including set-up and years 1-3 of the contractual arrangement would therefore be between £2m and £3.15m. Costs for years 4-5 are expected to be in the range of £1.0m to £1.6m, driving a total contract value between £3m and £4.75m.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 36
This contract is subject to renewal: Yes
Description of renewals:
Extensions of up to 12 months (per renewal) subject to a maximum Term of 5 years in total
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:
No
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
The contract includes options to provide additional services which are detailed in the procurement documents
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
To respond to this opportunity please email ourfuturehealth@curshaw.com stating in the subject line that this tender relates to Lot 2
Lot No: 3
II.2.1) Title
Researcher billing
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
48444100
72222300
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
In order to provide a scalable and flexible service, where researchers can use the cloud resources that they need, we anticipate a system where researchers pay for their own cloud storage and compute within their TRE workspace. We are therefore planning to procure a partner who can meet the following requirements, working together with the selected provider of public cloud infrastructure (lot 1) or the selected TRE (lot 2):
- Billing of researchers and collection of payments to be handled by a supplier or partner, not by Our Future Health.
- Our Future Health shall not be liable for the costs of researchers' compute and storage within the TRE.
- Our Future Health shall not incur data transfer charges between the primary data store and the TRE.
- Cloud pricing shall be uniform for both Our Future Health's usage and researcher usage.
Bidders cannot bid for Lot 3 alone and must bid for both or either Lot 1 and/or Lot 2.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 36
This contract is subject to renewal: Yes
Description of renewals:
Extensions of up to 12 months (per renewal) subject to a maximum Term of 5 years in total
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:
No
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
The contract includes options to provide additional services which are detailed in the procurement documents
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
To respond to this opportunity please email ourfuturehealth@curshaw.com stating in the subject line that this tender relates to Lot 3
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
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:
2021/S 000-031637
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
28/03/2022
Local time: 12:00
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: 5 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
28/03/2022
Local time: 13:00
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.2) Information about electronic workflows
Electronic invoicing will be accepted
Electronic payment will be used
VI.3) Additional information
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement.
To respond to this opportunity please email ourfuturehealth@curshaw.com stating in the subject line that this tender relates to Lot 1, Lot 2 or Lot 3. If responding to all three Lots, please email separately.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
CURSHAW Ltd c/o Our Future Health
2 New Bailey, 6 Stanley Street
Manchester
M3 5GS
UK
E-mail: ourfuturehealth@curshaw.com
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
04/03/2022