Planning

Infection Control System

  • NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)

F01: Prior information notice (prior information only)

Notice identifier: 2022/S 000-016800

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-034845

Published 20 June 2022, 1:11pm



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)

4-5 Charnwood Court,, Heol Billingsley, Parc Nantgarw

Cardiff

CF15 7QZ

Email

hywel.jones9@wales.nhs.uk

Telephone

+44 1443848585

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code

UK - United Kingdom

Internet address(es)

Main address

http://nwssp.nhs.wales/ourservices/procurement-services/

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.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

Infection Control System

Reference number

AW 088

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 48000000 - Software package and information systems

two.1.3) Type of contract

Supplies

two.1.4) Short description

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership are looking to procure a networked All Wales Infection Prevention and Control Case Management, reporting and surveillance system for use across NHS Wales Health Boards and Trusts.

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
  • UKL - Wales

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership are facilitating a procurement on behalf of Public Health Wales NHS Trust (PHW). The requirement is for national Infection Prevention and Control case management, reporting and surveillance software, fully networked across NHS Wales Health Boards and Trusts with functionality to provide an interfaced system across NHS Wales’ clinical systems (including but not limited to laboratory, patient management and theatre) in addition to the provision of a national level repository for surveillance and reporting.

PHW are seeking to explore alternatives to their current commercially supported system in use since 2016. The purpose of this pre-market engagement exercise is to assess the capabilities of the market and to enable NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership to refine its specification and approach to the procurement of this requirement. Indicative pricing will also be requested as part of this pre-market engagement.

The system must support – and be customisable by – local clinical teams, while also supporting a fully networked, national i.e. All Wales approach to Infection Prevention and Control case management, reporting and surveillance.

The system must support the migration of existing data from the current system, support the import of data from existing NHS Wales clinical systems and interface with downstream systems. The system must support the creation of a single patient record of infection by linking data from these systems.

The system must support bespoke and adjustable organism tagging, alerting and reporting functionality in accordance with a defined specification and support effective workflow management for clinical teams in respect to these organisms.

The systems must support the recording and management of outbreaks and incidents at a local and national level and support effective workflow management for clinical teams in respect to these events.

The system must support local and national level surveillance and reporting at least equivalent to the system currently in use, facilitated via both front end reporting tools and backend access to the underlying database.

NHS Wales has a ‘cloud first’ policy. As such, the preference would be a public cloud-hosted service. However, it is recognised that some suppliers may not yet provide their service over the cloud – in such cases, consideration will be given to an on-premise solution.

two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice

3 October 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: Yes


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

Interested suppliers are invited to attend a virtual engagement day to demonstrate their solutions on 4th June 2022.

If you are interested in demonstrating your solution, please note your interest in this notice and you will be contacted in order to ascertain suitability.

NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the Sell2Wales Web Site at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=122299.

(WA Ref:122299)