Official UK procurement notice
Implementation and Support Services Agreement for the COVID-19 Population Risk Assessment
Authority: Department of Health & Social Care (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionImplementation and Support Services for the QCovid® model which is embedded and incorporated in a service provided by NHS Digital and also for wider related use cases.
CPV: Software support services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1In May 2020 a project to stratify the public based on their risk from COVID-19 was…Awarded
In May 2020 a project to stratify the public based on their risk from COVID-19 was commissioned from NERVTAG (New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group) by the office of the Chief Medical Officer for England. NERVTAG established the parameters and brought together an academic team to add to their own expertise. This team was led by Oxford University Innovation Ltd.The title of the research project was “Development and evaluation of a tool for predicting risk of short-term adverse outcomes due to COVID-19 in the general UK population” and as part of this Oxford University Innovation Ltd developed the QCovid® model. The Grant award was published at the following link fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/COVID-19-Risk%… ↗ University Innovation Ltd were the owners of the Intellectual Property Rights for the QCovid® model, created following the Grant Award above. This contract could only be awarded to Oxford University (Oxford University Innovation Limited) as they hold the IPR.The initial scope of the contract is for support services to cover England only, but with the expectation that this will be extended to cover devolved authorities and crown dependencies in future.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 17 Mar 2021, 13:16 GMT
- Last source update
- 17 Mar 2021, 13:16 GMT
- Authority reference
C23431- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-005411- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights
- Published justification
In May 2020 a project to stratify the public based on their risk from COVID-19 was commissioned from NERVTAG (New and Emerging Respiratory Virus Threats Advisory Group) by the office of the Chief Medical Officer for England. NERVTAG established the parameters and brought together an academic team to add to their own expertise. This team was led by Oxford University and included researchers from the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, Queen Mary’s London, Swansea, Leicester and Nottingham with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University College London, NHS Digital and NHS England. The Grant Award was published at the following link fundingawards.nihr.ac.uk/award/COVID-19-Risk%… ↗ Software Support Contract could only be awarded to Oxford University Innovation Limited as they hold the Intellectual Property Rights required to provide the support on this project.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxford University Innovation Limited | £157,248 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 005411-2021-1 · Oxford University Innovation Limited
- Signed
- 5 Feb 2021
- Value
- £157,248
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids · 0 electronic | 1 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtMediation bodyReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Oxford University InnovationAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.