Published date: 9 March 2023

Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.


Closing: 7 December 2022, 8am

Contract summary

Industry

  • Telecommunications services - 64200000

Location of contract

England

Value of contract

£171,170 to £200,000

Procurement reference

KENTNHS001-DN640764-89604877

Published date

9 March 2023

Closing date

7 December 2022

Closing time

8am

Contract start date

1 February 2023

Contract end date

30 January 2026

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust required a service provider to provide a bulk SMS messaging service, that integrates with their clinical applications to send out messages such as; appointment confirmation and appointment reminders forty-eight (48) hours in advance. The service further included sharing clinical test results and highly sensitive information with patients via SMS.

The procurement for the Provision of SMS Messaging Service was run as a further competition under the NHS SBS Patient/Citizen Communication & Engagement Solutions Framework, Lot-3 SMS (Reference Number: SBS10175).

As the tender was run as a mini competition off a Framework, there was no requirement to issue a Tender Notice and all eligible suppliers on the framework were invited to tender, as per PCR 2015.

The Authority used the Due North e-tendering portal at https://procontract.due-north.com/Login ("the e-Tendering Portal").

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

PR001 - Provision of SMS Messaging Service

  • Awarded contract
  • Published 26 January 2023

Award information

Awarded date

23 January 2023

Contract start date

30 January 2023

Contract end date

30 January 2026

Total value of contract

£171,170

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

Healthcare Communications UK Ltd

Address

IMI Mobile PLC
5 St John's Lane
London
EC1M 4BH

Reference

None

Supplier is SME?

No

Supplier is VCSE?

No

About the buyer

Contact name

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trinity House, 110/120 Upper Pemberton
Kennington, Ashford
Kennington, Ashford
TN25 4AZ
England

Email

richard.lawrence@nhs.net

Website

http://www.kentcht.nhs.uk