Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, as hosts of NHS London Procurement Partnership
Ground Floor, 200 Great Dover Street
London
SE1 4YB
UK
Contact person: Mr Neil Robertson
E-mail: neil.robertson@lpp.nhs.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.lppsourcing.org
Address of the buyer profile: https://procontract.due-north.com/Procurer/Advert/View?advertId=ba3f4ce6-6d08-eb11-8105-005056b64545&fromAdvertEvent=True
I.2) 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://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=ba3f4ce6-6d08-eb11-8105-005056b64545&p=c8bf4a67- eab2-e611-8118-000c29c9ba21
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=ba3f4ce6-6d08-eb11-8105-005056b64545&p=c8bf4a67- eab2-e611-8118-000c29c9ba21
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
Clinical Digital Professional Services (CDPS) Framework Agreement
Reference number: DN500756
II.1.2) Main CPV code
72000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
A new framework agreement covering the full suite of clinical digital professional services, including services pertaining to both proprietary solutions and opensource solutions. All standalone, clinical system focused professional services, will be covered.
The authority intends to award this framework via four lots as follows:
Lot 1: General Clinical Digital Professional Services,
Lot 2: Cloud Hosting, Environment Build, Operation and Maintenance Professional Services,
Lot 3: Design, Development, and Deployment Professional Services,
Lot 4: Support Professional Services.
The framework agreement will allow for further competition and direct award to all awarded suppliers. In order to facilitate direct award, this framework will require the submission of national list pricing that will be published in a catalogue to all potential drawdown authorities in full and unrestricted.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
Yes
Tenders may be submitted for all lots
II.2) Description
Lot No: 1
II.2.1) Title
General Clinical Digital Professional Services
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
72590000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Suppliers must have significant experience in the provision of professional services pertaining to proprietary (i.e. closed-source) clinical software solutions for use in healthcare environments. These professional services must relate to the identification and/or requirements design and/or deployment and implementation of proprietary clinical systems/software solutions.
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: 48
This contract is subject to renewal: No
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:
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
Cloud Hosting, Environment Build, Operation and Maintenance Professional Services
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
72421000
72422000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Suppliers must have previous experience in the following areas working in a large-scale healthcare environment. An example of a large-scale healthcare environment may be an environment hosting over 10 m discrete person records with growth of up to 1m per month, with over 700 contributing GP organisations, over 10 contributing acute trusts and other types of health and social care providers using transactional real-time messaging and bulk data transfers. Total stored data may exceed 70 TB, on average over 20 database servers and over 80 application servers, all of which may be anticipated to increase over time:
— hosting services,
— monitoring services,
— access management services,
— service management services.
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: 48
This contract is subject to renewal: No
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:
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: 3
II.2.1) Title
Design, Development, and Deployment Professional Services
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
72263000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Suppliers must have previous experience in the following areas working in a large-scale healthcare environment. An example of a large-scale healthcare environment may be an environment hosting over 10 m discrete person records with growth of up to 1m per month, with over 700 contributing GP organisations, over 10 contributing acute trusts and other types of health and social care providers using transactional real-time messaging and bulk data transfers. Total stored data may exceed 70 TB, on average over 20 database servers and over 80 application servers, all of which may be anticipated to increase over time:
— analysis, architecture, and design services,
— clinical informatics and data modelling expertise,
— software development services,
— assurance, testing, and clinical safety services,
— technical custodian services,
— deployment of new publisher and subscriber feeds,
— population health and SQL services,
— project delivery services,
— business analyst and technical specification services.
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: 48
This contract is subject to renewal: No
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:
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: 4
II.2.1) Title
Support Professional Services
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
72250000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Suppliers must have previous experience in the following areas working in a large-scale healthcare environment. An example of a large-scale healthcare environment may be an environment hosting over 10 m discrete person records with growth of up to 1 m per month, with over 700 contributing GP organisations, over 10 contributing acute trusts and other types of health and social care providers using transactional real-time messaging and bulk data transfers. Total stored data may exceed 70 TB, on average over 20 database servers and over 80 application servers, all of which may be anticipated to increase over time:
— publisher and subscriber interface management services,
— end user and external organisation support,
— software fault identification and resolution.
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: 48
This contract is subject to renewal: No
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:
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.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement with several operators.
Justification for any framework agreement duration exceeding 4 years:
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
16/11/2020
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
16/11/2020
Local time: 12:00
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.3) Additional information
The framework agreement can be accessed via agreement by LPP and shall include the following organisations in the United Kingdom and their respective statutory successors and organisations created as a result of structural re-organisations or organisational changes:
• Central government departments and their executive agencies (a list of such departments and executive agencies can be found at http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/government-business/government-ministers-responsibilities.aspx);
• Non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) (a list of NDPBs can be found at Annex A to the Public Bodies Directory 2007 published by the cabinet office) which can be found at https://www.gov.uk/guidance/public-bodies-reform
• National Health Service (NHS) bodies, including Clinical Commissioning Groups, NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts, a special health authority and a local health board in England and Wales and other constituent bodies in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland including but not limited to the Scottish ambulance service.
Lists of all of such NHS bodies can be found at:
— http://www.nhs.uk/Servicedirectories/pages/nhstrustlisting.aspx
— http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure
— https://www.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/
— http://www.hscni.net/index.php?link=hospitals
• All Local Authorities, a list of such authorities being available at: http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Dl1/Directories/Localcouncils/AToZOfLocalCouncils/DG_A-Z_LG
• All Combined Authorities, a list of such authorities being available at: https://www.local.gov.uk/topics/devolution/combined-authorities
• Police forces and other emergency services, including fire and rescue services, the maritime and Coast guard agency and other rescue authorities a list of police authorities and fire and rescue services can be found respectively at the following:
— http://www.police.uk/forces.htm
— https://www.fireservice.co.uk/information/ukfrs/
• Educational establishments i.e. schools maintained by local authorities; academies; city technology colleges; further education establishments, and universities.
https://www.gov.uk/check-a-university-is-officially-recognised/recognised-bodies
• Registered social landlords (RSLs), a list of such authorities being available at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/current-registered-providers-of-social-housing
• Registered charities, as detailed at http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/
• Devolved and other administrations within the British Isles, including those detailed at:
— (in the case of Scotland) http://scotland.gov.uk/Home and http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/
— (in the case of Wales) http://new.wales.gov.uk/?llang=en,OJ/S
• Healthcare providers in the Channel Islands
— https://gov.gg
— https://www.gov.je
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
London
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
12/10/2020