Contract

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

  • NORTHERN IRELAND BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2024/S 000-032433

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

Published 9 October 2024, 1:53pm



Section one: Contracting authority

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

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.2.5) Award criteria

Price

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below

  • The 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

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2024/S 000-030369

four.2.9) Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice

The contracting authority will not award any further contracts based on the above prior information notice


Section five. Award of contract

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

9 October 2024

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 1

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

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Savant Ltd

Carnforth

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UK - United Kingdom
Companies House

02077844

The contractor is an SME

Yes

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

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £41,150

Total value of the contract/lot: £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