Official UK procurement notice
Digital Pathways Framework · UK public procurement notice
Authority: NHS England (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS England is establishing a framework agreement for the provision of Digital Pathways solutions and associated capabilities for primary care IT, and which utilises a refreshed set of solution capability requirements.<br/><br/>The scope of the Digital Pathways services and systems covers the following Capabilities (as more particularly described gpitbjss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DPL/over… ↗<br/>
- Care Navigation – supporting the ability to get patients the right support at the right time to help manage a range of needs.<br/>
- Online Consultations and Online Patient/Service User Request Reporting – supporting the provision of data collection, reporting and display (‘dashboard’).<br/>
- Online Patient/Service User Request – supporting the ability to raise and respond to administrative requests from Patients (or their representative) or a Service User.<br/>
- Online Patient/Service User Consultation – supporting the interaction between a patient (or their representative) and a Service User, including requests for support, capturing information on behalf of a patient and verifying their details.<br/>
- Cross-Organisational – Appointment Booking – enabling appointments for patients and service users to be booked by health/care professionals across organisational boundaries.<br/>
- Prescription Ordering – Citizen – enables Patients to request for a repeat medication (recorded in the ‘Prescribing’ capability) to be issued online.<br/>
- Video Consultation – enables Health or Care Professionals to conduct secure live remote Video Consultations with individual or groups of Patients/Service Users, ensuring they can receive support relating to healthcare concerns when a Video Consultation is most appropriate.<br/>
- View Record – Citizen - enables Citizens to view content from their Electronic Patient Record (EPR) online (to integrate with ‘Patient Information Maintenance - GP Solution’ capability).<br/>
- Communication Management – supports the delivery of communications to recipients.<br/><br/>The Atamis project reference for this opportunity is C193795.<br/><br/>To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗.<br/><br/>The full tender suite is available via the portal once registered.<br/><br/>Should Tenderers have any problems using the portal, they should contact Helpdesk at:<br/><br/>Phone: 0800 9956035<br/><br/>E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk
CPV: Medical software package · Software package and information systems
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
- 4 yrs from 24 Jan 2024, This will not exceed 4 years
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1Open ProcedureRenewalPublished value£297,600,060
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Digital Pathways Framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Goods
- Notice status
- Closed
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 18 Oct 2023, 13:33 BST
- Last source update
- 18 Oct 2023, 15:23 BST
- Award evaluation window
- 17 Nov 2023 – …
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-030795- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-040d0fFind a Tender
- Performance terms
Please refer to contract documents
Publisher note: The Digital Pathways Framework Agreement may be used by the following: <br/><br/> the Ministry of Justice and its executive agencies;<br/> the Ministry of Defence and its executive agencies;<br/> entities from any divisions of the Home Office;<br/> Health Service of Northern Ireland;<br/> Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (Northern Ireland);<br/> Health and Social Care Board of Northern Ireland;<br/> Health Agencies in Northern Ireland;<br/> the Business Services Organisation;<br/> any entity constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act<br/> 1978 (i.e. all NHS Scotland Health Boards, Special Health Boards and the Common<br/> Services Agency), independent contractors to NHS Scotland (i.e. general medical<br/> practitioners (GPs)) and the Scottish Prison Service detailed at<br/> http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/index.aspx;<br/> NHS Bodies in Wales and these include (without limitation) the 7 Local Health<br/> Boards and the 3 NHS Trusts in Wales; or<br/> GP Practices in Wales (http://howis.wales.nhs.uk/whtn/)<br/><br/>Please note that NHS England reserves the right to amend any of the dates and other aspects of the procurement process, as described in section 5.2.2 and 5.2.9.18 of the ITT.
How it was run
Official noticeTender documents are also served through a separate tool: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ↗
- Appointment period ends
- 16 Nov 2023
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bid validity
- 180 days from the deadline
- Bids opened
- 17 Nov 2023, 14:00 GMT
Timeline
18 Oct 2023 → 24 Jan 2024 · 4 dates- Notice published18 Oct 2023, 15:23 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown16 Nov 2023
- Bids opened17 Nov 2023, 14:00 GMT
- Contract starts24 Jan 2024
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1)
Please note the link in the short description is https://gpitbjss.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DPL/overview
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court and Court of Appeal of England and WalesReview bodyReview contact point
Official documents & specifications (2)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria