Official UK procurement notice
ISFE Extension During re-Procurement
Authority: NHS England (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNo description was published on the notice. See the official documents.
CPV: Accounting and auditing services · Accounting services · Administration services · Compilation of financial statements services · Contract administration services · Development of transaction processing and custom software · Financial analysis and accounting software development services · Financial analysis and accounting software package · Financial analysis software package · Financial information systems · Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services · Invoicing services · +3 more
How this framework works
From the published notice- Framework period
8 yrs from 1 Apr 2013, The ISFE re-procurement project is a large and complex project which will deliver a replacement for the current service. During the planning stages for the reprocurement it was identified that short term uncertainties regarding Group structure posed significant challenge to finalising a tender specification during 2019 with a review to implementing a replacement service by April 2021. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has meant that the project team and other key colleagues have had to focus their resource on keeping critical business processes running and work on the procurement of the new contract has inevitably been delayed.The extension allows enough time for a robust governance and procurement process and provides enough time for design and implementation.
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1ISFE is a service currently provided through NHS SBS, which is a joint venture between…
ISFE is a service currently provided through NHS SBS, which is a joint venture between Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) and Sopra Steria. ISFE enables NHS England to prepare consolidated accounts.The service is mandated across the NHS England group and NHS Improvement, and is wholly funded by NHS England and NHS Improvement. Users of the current service are commissioners (CCGs, Regions), national teams and CSUs. As part of the service NHS SBS provide a “back office” function which facilitates the handling of transactions through a workflow management process and provide daily and monthly reconciliations to the group.ISFE is a national service that is used to manage the financial requirements of the NHS England Group and NHS Improvement. The service includes a reporting package known as Business Intelligence in addition to the core modules and is used by commissioning bodies to administer their financial key management and statutory obligations.
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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).
- “ISFE Extension During re-Procurement” 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- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- 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
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 16 Apr 2021, 15:04 BST
- Last source update
- 16 Apr 2021, 15:04 BST
- Authority reference
BC-09198- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-008081- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02a702Find a Tender
Publisher note: Regulation 72 (1) (b) allows modifications to accommodate additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor, which have become necessary but were not included in the initial procurement, where a change of contractor cannot be made for economic or technical reasons and would cause significant inconvenience and substantial duplication of costs for the contracting authority and any increase in price also does not exceed 50% of the value of the original contract.As outlined within this notice NHS England & Improvement there are a number of reasons why a new procurement process has not been possible until now, including the national pandemic which has diverted resources. Clearly a new procurement process is needed but requires sufficient time to plan for the next contract, run a new compliant procurement and then, once a new supplier is awarded the new contract, time to transition and implement the replacement contract. The new ISFE re-procurement project is a large and complex project which we expect will deliver a transformed service when compared to the current service. A change of contractor at this stage would cause significant inconvenience and have substantial duplication of cost implications as in order to compliantly replace the contractor now would require two concurrent procurement processes to be run for the same service. It would therefore be both impractical and uneconomic. The total value of this modification does not exceed 50% of the original contract value.
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
1 Apr 2013 → 16 Apr 2021 · 2 dates- Contract starts1 Apr 2013, 00:00 BST
- Notice published16 Apr 2021, 15:04 BST
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Integrated Single Financial Environment
- Signed
- 1 Apr 2021
- Value
- £185,700,000
- Period
- 1 Apr 2021 – 31 Mar 2023
- Status
- active
- Change The contract term will be extended from 01/04/2021 to 31/03/2024 at an additional cost of £59.2 million. There is no significant change to the overall scope or the services proposed under this modification., Need for additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor/concessionaire: Regulation 72 (1) (b) allows modifications to accommodate additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor, which have become necessary but were not included in the initial procurement, where a change of contractor cannot be made for economic or technical reasons and would cause significant inconvenience and substantial duplication of costs for the contracting authority and any increase in price also does not exceed 50% of the value of the original contract.As outlined within this notice there are a number of reasons why a new procurement process has not been possible until now, including the national pandemic which has diverted resources. Clearly a new procurement process is needed but requires sufficient time to plan for the next contract, run a new compliant procurement and then, once a new supplier is awarded the new contract, time to transition and implement the replacement contract. See VI.3.0.1 Additional information for further information.
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- NHS Shared Business Services LtdFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.