Published date: 14 June 2022
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Data services - 72300000
Location of contract
North West
Value of contract
£1 to £850,000
Procurement reference
NICEAIMS21
Published date
14 June 2022
Closing date
4 June 2021
Closing time
5pm
Contract start date
1 November 2021
Contract end date
30 April 2025
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
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
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is seeking to procure an Access and Identity Management Service (AIMS) consisting of both an Identity Provider (IdP) and Access Management Federation (AMF). The service will authenticate users and authorise access to content, verifying eligible users based on user or organisational entitlement. The aim of the service is to establish and maintain a managed service ensuring continual availability and access to content for more than 314,000 eligible users following the end of the current service contract on 30 April 2022.
AIMS will provide eligible users with access to content: digital knowledge resources purchased from publishers such as databases, journals, evidence summaries, e-books and point of care tools. This content may be purchased nationally or regionally by Health Education England (HEE), as well as locally or collectively (consortia) by individual NHS Trusts or healthcare related organisations. Eligible users are UK healthcare professionals working in the NHS, social care and other eligible organisations in line with the national eligibility criteria.
The suppliers Identity Provider (IdP) will be responsible for providing identifiers for users looking to interact with the system; asserting to the system that the identifier presented by a user is known to the publisher; and providing other information about the user via specified in Data attributes. The service must include a web browser-based interface for user self-registration and account management and an API to support these functions.
The suppliers Access Management Federation (AMF) must use SAML2 protocols and/or must be a participating member of an existing identity federation (with registered SAML IdP and SP entities) that all publishers are part of or can join.
The service must also be supported by a web-browser based interface to allow service management of accounts, access to content, audit functionality and statistics by a network of staff.
Suppliers must demonstrate working relationships with publishers of health and social care resources. This procurement is not seeking to build an AIMS system, NICE is seeking existing systems including the AMF.
More information
Previous notice about this procurement
Access and Identity Management System
- Opportunity
- Published 14 April 2021, last edited 21 April 2021
Attachments
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- AIMS Tender Pack for Publication.zip
- Bidding documents
- AIMS Tender Pack
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- 03_Invitation to Tender _Response Document_FINAL_Amended.docx
- Bidding documents
- Bidders response document with corrected date error
Award information
Awarded date
27 May 2022
Contract start date
1 November 2021
Contract end date
30 April 2025
Total value of contract
£825,000
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
JISC SERVICES LIMITED
Address
4 Portwall Lane
BRISTOL
Avon
BS1 6NB
GBReference
Companies House number: 02881024
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
Attachments
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- NICE 177_Redacted.pdf
- Signed contract
About the buyer
Contact name
Irene Walker
Address
Level 1A City Tower
Piccadilly Gardens
Manchester
M1 4BT
England
Telephone
0161 870 3198
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Closing: 4 June 2021, 5pm