Planning

Enterprise Architecture Tools Suite

  • University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

F01: Prior information notice (prior information only)

Notice identifier: 2022/S 000-015814

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-03446b

Published 8 June 2022, 5:12pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

B15 2WB

Email

matthew.kelsall@uhb.nhs.uk

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UKG3 - West Midlands

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/home.htm

Buyer's address

https://nhs.bravosolution.co.uk/nhs_collaborative/web/login.html

one.3) Communication

Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned 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

Enterprise Architecture Tools Suite

Reference number

PROC.08.0386

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 48000000 - Software package and information systems

two.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

two.1.4) Short description

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is seeking to engage with suppliers interested in its requirement for an Enterprise Architecture Tools Suite.

Suppliers who are able to offer solutions relevant to this requirement are invited to express an interest and respond to a market engagement questionnaire. Further details on how to do this are contained within the additional information section of this notice

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 48100000 - Industry specific software package

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKG3 - West Midlands

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is seeking to engage with suppliers interested in its requirement for an Enterprise Architecture Tool Suite.

UHB comprises four hospitals and community services across Birmingham, and has more than 700 IT systems, ranging from bespoke data capture applications used by individuals to medical device integrations and enterprise-wide resource planning solutions. The estate comprises over 900 servers (physical and virtual) and 20,000 desktop and mobile computer devices spread over multiple locations including cloud, using various connectivity/security technologies.

The trust wishes to develop an improved understanding of its assets and the inter-dependencies between these, and its business processes and the data the organisation collects, stores and shares.

The trust has existing access to some third-party discovery tools to identify hardware and software assets and has some existing architecture artefacts. These include a partial systems inventory, and a limited number of system diagrams, network topology diagrams and data flow diagrams.

The trust wishes to consolidate these architecture artefacts into a single repository to form an Enterprise Continuum and develop this further with additional data and diagrams.

A wide variety of stakeholders within the trust will need to interrogate this repository for analysis and planning to improve application portfolio management, technology risk management, post-merger IT integration, and overall business transformation.

Suppliers who are able to offer solutions relevant to this requirement are invited to express an interest and respond to a market engagement questionnaire. Further details on how to do this are contained within the additional information section of this notice.

This exercise is intended to provide potential bidders with the opportunity to review the Authority's Briefing Document and to provide information regarding the services they can offer that could meet these outline requirements. This builds on the Authority's commitment to engage with the market, by sharing information and seeking input from the market to enable us to develop the final specification and determine the appropriate route to market in a fair and transparent manner.

two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice

1 September 2022


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

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

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

Suppliers wishing to participate in this market engagement exercise and express an interest in this requirement should respond to the questionnaire via the online form on the Bravo Portal by 13:00 on Friday 1st July 2022.

Bravo reference of online form:

“pqq__28692 Enterprise Architecture Tools Suite - Market Engagement”

Direct link to response form:

https://nhs.bravosolution.co.uk/go/36202228018143FF977B