Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
Digital Health and Care Wales
Ty Glan yr Afon, 21 Cowbridge Road East
Cardiff
CF11 9AD
Contact
Nathan Beynon
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UK - United Kingdom
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/Search_AuthProfile.aspx?ID=AA0221
one.2) Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
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
Agile Product Delivery Partner (Discovery, Development, Deployment) Framework Agreement
Reference number
P879
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
The Authority is seeking to establish a sole supplier Framework Agreement for an Agile Product Delivery Partner (discovery, Development, Deployment) for Digital Health and Care Wales.
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: £20,000,000
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKL - Wales
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
Digital Health and Care Wales (DHCW), a Special Health Authority which creates digital solutions needed to improve health and care in Wales, About Digital Health and Care Wales – Digital Health and Care Wales (https://dhcw.nhs.wales) is seeking to establish a sole supplier Framework Agreement for an Agile Product Delivery Partner (Discovery, Development, Deployment) to enable specialist resources to be called off as and when required to support DHCW and the Digital Services for Patients and the Public (“DSPP”) programme in delivering the NHS Wales App. The DSPP Programme has been established to deliver the following vision:
i. Using transformational digital services to increase people’s involvement in the management of their health and wellbeing to engender more positive health and social care outcomes for the people of Wales.
ii. Opening up channels to capture and share information relating to people’s health and wellbeing:
- Greater visibility of and access to the information that the NHS holds at an individual level.
- Ability for the patient to collect and share information with carers, medical professionals and others of their choosing.
- Create a technical and cultural environment that can extend beyond traditional NHS boundaries and into social care and the third sector.
iii. Providing Information sharing under clear models for consent, data provenance, and audit including controlled proxy access and accountability for actions based on available information at a given point in time.
iv. This vision for information sharing includes:
- Transactional information such as appointment bookings.
- Communications including correspondence, messages and video calling and conferencing.
- Personalised health and wellbeing information presented in a context that is understandable, allowing a user to navigate between multiple sources of supporting information and service information with relative ease.
The scope of the Framework Agreement is for the provision of services via a “call off mechanism” to support DHCW in delivering the NHS Wales App across four key areas:
1. Discovery
2. Development
3. Operations
4. Support & Service Management
A commercial/contractual partnership agreement is envisaged between the Parties to efficiently and effectively deliver the evolving requirements to meet the organisation’s and programmes Corporate Strategy so an agile and robust approach is essential. The successful supplier will be required to provide access to suitably skilled and experienced resources that are flexible, highly skilled, and able to provide a proactive approach to underpin the service delivery of the Agreement. The successful supplier will need to demonstrate a track record of delivering comparable successful UK public sector Apps, preferably within healthcare. In addition, an excellent working knowledge of the Welsh Public Sector and NHS Wales is desirable, as is experience in Healthcare.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion - Name: Quality / Weighting: 60%
Quality criterion - Name: Social Value / Weighting: 10%
Price - Weighting: 30%
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
Open procedure
four.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
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: 2023/S 000-036896
Section five. Award of contract
Contract No
P879
A contract/lot is awarded: Yes
five.2) Award of contract
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
3 April 2024
five.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 4
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 4
Number of tenders received from tenderers from other EU Member States: 4
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 4
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Kainos
4-6 Upper Crescent
Belfast
BT71NT
Telephone
+44 7770742236
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: £20,000,000
Section six. Complementary information
six.3) Additional information
(WA Ref:140475)
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
High Court
Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
Telephone
+44 2079477501
Country
United Kingdom