Award

Essential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight

  • BELFAST HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST

F15: Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

Notice identifier: 2023/S 000-001299

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-0397e1

Published 16 January 2023, 3:21pm



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

BELFAST HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST

LISBURN ROAD

BELFAST

BT97AB

Contact

Norma Moore

Email

norma.moore@belfasttrust.hscni.net

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKN06 - Belfast

Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Not on any register

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://belfasttrust.hscni.net/

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

one.5) Main activity

Health


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

Essential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight

Reference number

DAC10950

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

Essential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight, transitional arrangement

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: £105,000

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKN - Northern Ireland
Main site or place of performance

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Essential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight - transitional arrangement

two.2.5) Award criteria

Price

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Negotiated without a prior call for competition

  • The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:
    • protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights

Explanation:

Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI) is currently working on the implementation of encompass, an Electronic Health and Care Record (EHCR) that will underpin the service transformation and healthcare needs of the population of Northern Ireland. Encompass will replace multiple aging HSC Trust systems and numerous paper records and manual workflows and the EHCR will deliver significant core functionality across the acute, community and primary care Out of Hours sectors. The contract for the provision of the EHCR solution was awarded to Epic in May 2020. No other reasonable alternative exists for this procurement, this Ophthalmology electronic records system is essential to patient care and service delivery. Medisoft Limited are the sole supplier of this System and have exclusive rights over the software, licences and updates for this system. The functionality of this system is within the core scope of the Encompass procurement. This contract is required to cover the transitional period and a replacement in the short-term is not a reasonable alternative as it would require extensive ICT infrastructure, validation and integration work that would result in significant disruption and lead to disproportionate technical difficulties that would impact on the Trusts ability to provide a an Ophthalmology service. The wider market was consulted when Encompass was procured. The absence of competition is not a result of the artificial narrowing of the parameters of the procurement

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes


Section five. Award of contract/concession

Contract No

DAC10950

Title

Essential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract/concession

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

16 January 2023

five.2.2) Information about tenders

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire

Medisoft Limited

33 Park Place

Leeds

LS1 2RY

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKE42 - Leeds
Companies House

03318478

Internet address

https://www.medisoft.co.uk/

The contractor/concessionaire is an SME

No

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot/concession (excluding VAT)

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot/concession: £105,000

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: £105,000


Section six. Complementary information

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

Belfast

BT8 8BH

Email

norma.moore@belfasttrust.hscni.net

Country

United Kingdom

Internet address

https://belfasttrust.hscni.net/