Published date: 18 September 2023

Last edited date: 6 October 2023

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 18 September 2023

Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

  • Miscellaneous software package and computer systems - 48900000

  • Miscellaneous software development services and computer systems - 72212900

    • Software-related services - 72260000

Location of contract

WS2 9PR

Value of contract

£200,000 to £600,000

Procurement reference

CF-1872600D0O000000rwimUAA

Published date

18 September 2023

Approach to market date

18 September 2023

Contract start date

19 September 2023

Contract end date

17 October 2023

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?

Yes

Description

Refer to attachment for further info.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is home to both acute and community services. The acute side of the Trust already has a well-established Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and use System C's CareFlow. But the community side of the Trust does not have a community wide EPR in place.
A review has been undertaken to identify the full requirements and an Output Based Specification has now been completed and signed off.
The indicative number of users for the service is 350.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

WHPC00806 - OBS Community

  • Future opportunity
  • Published 18 September 2023

Attachments

Additional text

The trust is looking for indicative costs, this is a process of early engagement with the market.

The values on this notice is currently an estimate. The value will be dependent on the contract length which will be in the tender documents once released.

The trust has an indicative date in January 2025 to publish the tendering documents.

Our business case is being developed at present by our stakeholders and when finalised this will be presented to our board at the trust.

To implement this contract, the stakeholder has estimated it will take 18 months from the award of the contract to fully implement the solution.

If this is of any interest please contact the below:

craig.pollard2@nhs.net
cara.hodgen1@nhs.net

About the buyer

Contact name

Craig Pollard

Address

Moat Road
Walsall
WS2 9PR
England

Email

craig.pollard2@nhs.net