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.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
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
Digital Health and Care Wales (“DHCW”) is seeking to create a sole supplier Agile Product Delivery Partner (Discovery, Development, Deployment) Framework Agreement to enable specialist resources to be called off as and when required to support the Digital Services for Patients and the Public (“DSPP”) programme in delivering the NHS Wales App.
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
This opportunity will be tendered via the Bravo e-tender Wales portal- https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk. Suppliers interested in this procurement can attend two supplier briefing sessions on 7th November 2023 and 14th November 2023. To register your attendance please email your confirmation to Nathan Beynon at nathan.beynon3@wales.nhs.uk by the 2nd November 2023.
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £20,000,000
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
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”) is seeking to create a sole supplier Agile Product Delivery Partner (Discovery, Development, Deployment) Framework Agreement to enable specialist resources to be called off as and when required to support 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.
To date the NHS Wales App has been developed by external partners and these agreements are due to expire mid-2024. To support the NHS Wales Apps’ next stage of development and operation DHCW require an agile and flexible means of contracting with an external product delivery partner who has the relevant skills and experience to support DSPP and DHCW with the discovery, development and deployment of applications.
To enable the DSPP programme to call off their requirements on an ad hoc basis in accordance with the iterative technological needs of the programme and NHS Wales’ strategic business needs, it is anticipated the Framework Agreement will be awarded in April 2024.
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
This opportunity will be tendered via the Bravo e-tender Wales portal- https://etenderwales.bravosolution.co.uk. Suppliers interested in this procurement can attend two supplier briefing sessions on 7th November 2023 and 14th November 2023. To register your attendance please email your confirmation to Nathan Beynon at nathan.beynon3@wales.nhs.uk by the 2nd November 2023.
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
4 December 2023
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
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=135879.
(WA Ref:135879)