Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Health Innovation North East and North Cumbria
Biomedical Research Building, Campus for Ageing and Vitality, University of Newcastle, Nuns Moor Road
Newcastle-upon-Tyne
NE4 5PL
Contact
Mrs Liz Brown
businessdevelopment@healthinnovationnenc.org.uk
Telephone
+44 1912081326
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://healthinnovationnenc.org.uk/
Buyer's address
https://healthinnovationnenc.org.uk/
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Other type
Company limited by guarantee
one.5) Main activity
Health
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Data Harmonisation and System Interoperability – Phase 3
Reference number
DN708253
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 79000000 - Business services: law, marketing, consulting, recruitment, printing and security
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
Innovation pipeline data, plus outcome and impact data, is currently collected using different tools, stored differently, and has various definitions across partner organisations. This means that understanding the pipeline is complicated and needs to be improved.
The Innovation, Research, Life Sciences and Transformation Strategy (IRLSS) group has ambitions to improve its horizon scanning and demand signalling (HS & DS) capability and to align different and disparate data sources better to enable data-driven decision-making. We are aiming to align these different datasets with a view to creating an innovation repository. The repository would combine data from the Health Innovation organisations (HI's), the NHS Innovation Service and other sources (including awards, such as the NHS Innovation Accelerator (NIA)) to provide intelligence about innovations moving along the innovation pathway and their impact. For obvious reasons, we are not necessarily looking to create a single data source from the current disparate sources. Still, we need to align our datasets pragmatically to give a more coherent view of the market in a particular area, accessed more easily. The resulting data views will be used to support HS & DS, to identify technologies that do not offer additional benefits, and recognise where there are barriers to development and where there are issues with progress along the pipeline which could influence policy. This information will also support the NHS in understanding, prioritising, and preparing for incoming innovations.
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: £131,040
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UK - United Kingdom
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
Innovation in digital technologies, greater use of data and technology-enabled transformation are ways to support the NHS in addressing the pressures it is currently facing. Many innovative solutions are coming onto the market all the time, all in different states of market readiness. In recent years, through the creation of the Accelerated Access Collaborative, the AI funding awards and other initiatives, including most recently the intention to re-licence the AHSNs (now called Health Innovation networks), the NHS has developed the infrastructure needed to enable the NHS to adopt innovation more widely. However, this is a complex landscape, and we currently need a means of tracking innovations as they move along the innovation pathway, from demand signalling and horizon scanning to ideation and development, approval, adoption and spread. This means the NHS has an incomplete view of the innovations available to support a particular need and is frequently unsighted on the timescales within which innovations are likely to come to market.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion - Name: Technical response / Weighting: 50%
Quality criterion - Name: Social Value / Weighting: 15%
Price - Weighting: 35%
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: No
two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
Restricted procedure
four.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the setting up of a dynamic purchasing system
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No
four.2) Administrative information
four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number: 2023/S 000-015073
Section five. Award of contract
Contract No
DN708253
Lot No
2
A contract/lot is awarded: Yes
five.2) Award of contract
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
9 February 2024
five.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Channel 3 Consulting Ltd
Southwark
SE1 1LB
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UK - United Kingdom
The contractor is an SME
Yes
five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot: £131,040
Section six. Complementary information
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
Health Innovation NENC
Newcastle upon Tyne
Country
United Kingdom