Vaccination Programme Notification Service

Official notice

Authority: Digital Health & Care Wales (Central government)

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Sectors: Postal and telecommunications services (64) Delivery: UK

Awarded value£2,500,000published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 30 Sept 2022no call for competition

Awarded to The Cabinet Office

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW) has executed an Agreement to continue the use of UK Gov Notify – the government’s messaging platform. The platform has been developed by Central Government for use by all parts of the public sector to deliver urgent messages/texts. It has been a vital platform in in managing the messages for the Covid vaccination from each Health Board in Wales to its patients since December 2020.

Given that the vaccination and booster programmes are still ongoing and likely to continue for as a minimum the next twelve (12) months, it was essential that continued contract coverage was in place.

CPV: Postal and telecommunications services · Short Message Service (SMS) services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1Awarded

Delivery: UK · Various sites across NHS Wales

64212100 Short Message Service (SMS) services

Procedure terms & legal framework

From the official record · publisher note attached

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: 5 Oct 2022, 15:17 BST
Last source update: 5 Oct 2022, 15:17 BST
Authority reference: P642.19B
FTS notice number: 2022/S 000-027990
Classification (CPV): Postal and telecommunications servicesShort Message Service (SMS) services
Delivery area: UK
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-037332 Find a Tender

Why no open competition: New works/services, constituting a repetition of existing works/services and ordered in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the directive
Published justification: Given the criticality to provide continued access to a proven COVID Vaccine IT System, DHCW executed another agreement with UK Gov Notify by October 2022. Since December 2020, the system has enabled transactional communications (letters, emails and text messages) to be sent in large numbers, as required to support the Vaccination programme.

Publisher note: (WA Ref:125205)

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £2,500,0001 contract exc. VAT

Bids received 1

Contracts signed 1latest 30 Sept 2022

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
The Cabinet Office	£2,500,000 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Contract 027990-2022-P642.19B-1 · The Cabinet Office
Signed
30 Sept 2022
Value
£2,500,000
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
1bids · 1 electronic	0	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Digital Health and Care Wales

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth Ty Glan yr Afon, 21 Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff, UK, CF11 9ADContact name, email

Dispute resolution & review bodies

High CourtReview body LondonContact phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

The Cabinet OfficeAwarded supplierC/o Government Digital Service White Chapel Building, 10 Whitechapel High Street, London, UK, E1 8DX

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.