Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Business Services Organisation
2 Franklin Street
BELFAST
BT28DQ
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKN - Northern Ireland
Internet address(es)
Main address
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
Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 72250000 - System and support services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
HSC Business Services Organisation intends to enter into an agreement with First Data Bank (FDB) UK for the provision of FDB Multilex. Multilex is FDB UK's proprietary software which provides medicines optimisation and clinical decision support for medicines management for the purposes of embedding within the encompass Programme Epic electronic health and care record.
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: £5,644,000
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 48100000 - Industry specific software package
- 48422000 - Software package suites
- 48517000 - IT software package
- 48800000 - Information systems and servers
- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKN - Northern Ireland
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Epic product that has been procured to deliver the encompass Programme across HSCNI requires the purchase and configuration and embedding of a drug knowledge base which meets the following standards:
• a NICE accredited clinical decision support module
• a drug dictionary that is compliant with the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) standard (SCCI0052)
• includes GS1 barcodes to enable compliance with the Falsified Medicines Directive (Directive 2011/62/EU). (Note: Northern Ireland is still expected to comply with this Directive under the Northern Ireland Protocol following EU Exit).
Key functionality required by encompass and delivered by the embedding of a drug knowledge base includes:
o A drug dictionary that is compliant with the dm+d standard (SCCI0052).
o NHS Indicative Pricing
o EAN/GS1 Barcodes
o British National Formulary Warnings (Mandatory Instructions)
o Drug - drug interactions
o Sensitivity checking
o Duplicate therapy checking
o Patient condition checking (Contraindications and Precautions)
o Warnings
o Dose range check (DRC)
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
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below
- The services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:
- absence of competition for technical reasons
Explanation:
First Data Bank (FDB) UK is the provider of Multilex. The FDB Multilex drug knowledge base embeds with existing Epic workflows to enable bar coded medicines administration, clinical decision support and inventory management. FDB Multilex drug knowledge base is used in all UK Epic installations and is the only drug knowledge base product available with the core functionality required by encompass. The Authority is relying on Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) as the contract can only be supplied by FBD UK as competition is absent for technical reasons.
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes
four.2) Administrative information
four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number: 2021/S 000-002747
Section five. Award of contract
Contract No
DAC9363
Title
Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record
A contract/lot is awarded: Yes
five.2) Award of contract
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
26 March 2021
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
First Data Bank UK
Exeter
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKK4 - Devon
The contractor is an SME
No
five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot: £5,644,000
Section six. Complementary information
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
Business Services Organisation
2 Franklin Street
Belfast
BT2 8DQ
Country
United Kingdom