Published date: 28 September 2022

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


Closing: 1 July 2022, 12pm

Contract summary

Industry

  • Content or data standardization and classification services - 72330000

Location of contract

LS1 4AP

Value of contract

£400,000

Procurement reference

CF-1100100D0O000000rwimUAA

Published date

28 September 2022

Closing date

1 July 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

12 September 2022

Contract end date

11 September 2023

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Call-off from a dynamic purchasing system

A mini-competition or direct purchase from a pre-established dynamic purchasing system.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

The NHS website includes thousands of articles on symptoms, conditions and treatments as well as hundreds of articles on healthy living. It aims to help people make good choices about their health and use of NHS health and care services.
The content has been created using the best available evidence and is presented in a balanced manner so that users can understand and act on it.
As a minimum each piece of content is reviewed at least once every 3 years to ensure it is clinically and factually accurate based on the latest clinical guidance.
For the last 18 months our content team has been focussed on delivering COVID-19-related products and services, which has created a backlog of reviews. This has meant we have not been achieving the 3-year review deadline for some topics.
We recruited a supplier earlier this year to pilot a process where they would check the information presented is clinically accurate based on the latest evidence (the evidence check). This pilot is now complete and we would like to move on to the next phase of the project.

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Award information

Awarded date

14 September 2022

Contract start date

12 September 2022

Contract end date

11 September 2023

Total value of contract

£400,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

The Economist Group

Address

​20 Cabot Square London E14 4QW

Reference

None

About the buyer

Contact name

Abigail Osuhon

Address

7 and 8 Wellington Place
Leeds
LS1 4AP
GB

Email

a.osuhon@nhs.net