Published date: 25 April 2025
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Contract summary
Industry
Data capture services - 72313000
Location of contract
England
Value of contract
£0 to £5,328,000
Procurement reference
C293267
Published date
25 April 2025
Closing date
10 November 2024
Closing time
11:59pm
Contract start date
1 April 2025
Contract end date
31 March 2026
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Restricted procedure (above threshold)
A two-stage procedure, where the first stage is used to select suppliers, who are then invited to bid in the second stage.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
Point of Care (PoC) suppliers deliver technical systems that operate in clinical environments to capture patient, vaccination type, and vaccine batch data for each vaccination event undertaken in that health setting.
The beneficiaries of the vaccination data captured and flowed by these PoC systems include: NHS-Vaccine Digital Services (VDS), which uses the data to set the Preventative Health strategies, update DPS and the PDS/Spine systems, as well as wider use cases through UKHSE, DHSC and various health research programmes.
This procurement sought supplier engagement to a 12-month contract for provision of PoC systems and services for vaccination data captured in Community Pharmacy (CP) settings. A maximum number of 5 contracts would be awarded which would allow awarded suppliers to operate in a competitive and transactional manner, with the available CP market shared between them and payments made based on the actual number of CPs using each respective supplier PoC system in a month.
Market engagement was undertaken through an open and anonymous webinar held on 27th June 2024; after which 26 parties registered their interest via the e-procurement portal, Atamis, through which the procurement was run.
The market engagement was followed on 27th August 2024 with the release of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQ) and PQQ instructions documents. The PQQ asked interested parties to provide information under business operation, and, clinical and technical system capabilities parameters.
Submission of the PQQ responses was required by 17:00 on 30th September; there were 6 responses received to the PQQ phase.
PQQ responses were evaluated against numerical and weighted scoring parameters, as defined in the PQQ instructions, for business operation (40% of total), clinical capabilities (20% of total), technical capabilities (40% of total), in order to arrive at a score out of 100% for each respondent. Parties achieving at least the minimum threshold of 70% were qualified to progress to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) phase.
The ITT documents, which consisted of Instructions, Technical capabilities, Clinical capabilities, Social Value, Contractual/Commercial and GDPR questionnaires, were published to qualifying suppliers on 16th October 2024; all responses were required for submission by 23:59 on 10th November 2024.
Five responding parties progressed through to the ITT phase and in accordance with the ITT evaluation instructions, all parties were then offered a contract. However, one supplier decided not to progress through the contracting phase and exited the market.
Therefore, four contracts were awarded to all remaining fully qualified suppliers: EMIS(Optum), Sonar, Cegedim and Positive, to allow for their provision of vaccination data capture systems and services in Community Pharmacy settings, subject to passing clinical, operational and technical assurance standards (as published via the NHS Digital Services Catalogue).
More information
Previous notice about this procurement
Point of Care Vaccination Data Capture & Flow
- Future opportunity
- Published 19 June 2024, last edited 17 July 2024
Attachments
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- PoC Contract for Vaccination Services in Community Pharmacy settings_FINAL AWARD_06.12.2024.pdf
- Contract notice
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The contract was awarded as standard and non-negotiable, therefore all suppliers are operating on the same terms.
These contracts intend suppliers to operate in a competitive and transactional manner, with the available CP market shared between all awarded suppliers and payment made based on the actual number of CPs using each respective supplier PoC system in a month.
Award information
Awarded date
12 December 2024
Contract start date
1 April 2025
Contract end date
31 March 2026
Total value of contract
£5,328,000
This contract was awarded to 4 suppliers.
SONAR INFORMATICS LTD
Address
9 Goldhawk Road
W12 8QQ
GBReference
Companies House number: 05580587
Supplier is SME?
Yes
Supplier is VCSE?
No
EGTON MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS LIMITED
Address
Yeadon
LS19 7BY
GBReference
Companies House number: 02117205
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
CEGEDIM DATA SERVICES LIMITED
Address
Moss Side Industrial Estate
PR26 7QN
GBReference
Companies House number: 03375866
Supplier is SME?
Yes
Supplier is VCSE?
No
POSITIVE SOLUTIONS (NORTHERN) LIMITED
Address
LIVERPOOL ROAD
BB12 6HH
GBReference
Companies House number: 03847138
Supplier is SME?
Yes
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Contact name
Victoria Barker-Smith
Address
Wellington House
LONDON
SE16LH
England
Telephone
020 7333 6154
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