Award

Development of Blood Mangement System to Allow Use of Historic Red Cell Phenotyping Results

  • NORTHERN IRELAND BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE

F15: Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

Notice identifier: 2024/S 000-030369

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-049d0c

Published 23 September 2024, 4:03pm



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

NORTHERN IRELAND BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE

Belfast City Hospital,Lisburn Road

BELFAST

BT97ER

Contact

Matt Gillespie

Email

matt.gillespie@nibts.hscni.net

Telephone

+44 2890531414

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKN06 - Belfast

Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Not on any register

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.nibts.hscni.net

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

Development of Blood Mangement System to Allow Use of Historic Red Cell Phenotyping Results

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

Development of Buisness critical NIBTS blood managment system, Pulse, to facilitate use of Historic Red Cell Phenotyping results to reduce the need for repeat donor testing.

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: £41,150

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKN - Northern Ireland

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Provison of devlopment of the buisness critical NIBTS Pulse system

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Negotiated without a prior call for competition

  • The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:
    • protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights

Explanation:

The overall architecture of the system is based on ltanium-based servers running the OpenVMS operating environment. A Mimer database system provides the core data management environment, with an n-tier approach of a Windows business layer server and Windows client applications providing access to the system to end users. The nature of the relationship with NHSBT, access to source code for the ongoing development of the system, and the capability to support the overall system in an end-to-end manner results in all support an development work on the NIBTS Pulse system being exclusively delivered by Savant.

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

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes


Section five. Award of contract/concession

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract/concession

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

23 September 2024

five.2.2) Information about tenders

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire

Savant Ltd

Carnforth

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UK - United Kingdom
Companies House

02077844

The contractor/concessionaire is an SME

Yes

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot/concession (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: £41,150


Section six. Complementary information

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

The Royal Courts of Justice

Belfast

Country

United Kingdom