Published date: 3 July 2018

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: 1 August 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

  • Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber

Value of contract

£0 to £10,300,000

Procurement reference

CGHNKWITN1

Published date

3 July 2018

Approach to market date

1 August 2018

Contract start date

1 April 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Procedure type

Other: Future opportunity

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

NHS Calderdale CCG (as primary contract holder) on behalf of - (Calderdale, Greater Huddersfield, North Kirklees and Wakefield) intends to commission a range of information technology services for the 4 CCG's and their GP practices.

The service is anticipated to need a range of flexibility in terms of scope to meet the developing technological maturity of the NHS and changing requirements of the General practice landscape over the life of the contact. It is anticipated that the supplier will hold a contract for up to 5 years, and include General IT supporting functions of a comprehensive range of services and support innovation and transformation to meet a defined set of outcomes and performance measures.

The services to be provided will include (among others);
1. Services for Clinical commissioning Groups headquarter corporate functions
2. Services for General Practice clinical

And will need to include Service desk, desktop management, infrastructure, server, Network services and management and cyber security services, NHS Registration card service provision and Email services and NHSMail management, Data storage, a range of innovation and development services, software web developments and project management, business change and clinical training services

The contract and winning bids will be partially determined through the process being undertaken. The value should be treated as essentially near approximations, but the overall contract value is expected to be been £10.3 million over the 5 years.

The purpose of this PIN is to initiate market interest.

The PIN is intended to:

Inform the market of the potential future procurement process for IT services in Calderdale Greater Huddersfield, North Kirklees and Wakefield (and therefore enable the market to begin to plan for this.
It is expected that the contract will be awarded to a single legal entity for the entirety of the service provision.


More information

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice
Financial year Budget
2019/2020 £2,060,000

Additional text

NHS Calderdale Commissioning Group is acting in its capacity as Lead Commissioner for the 4 CCG's. The list of CCGs participating in this collaborative contract is as follows:

• Calderdale CCG
• Greater Huddersfield CCG
• North Kirklees CCG
• Wakefield CCG

This prior information notice does not commit the CCGs to undertake the procurement of the provision of the IT / Network Services. The CCGs have a right to withdraw this notice.

The tender opportunity will be available on the Bravo E-procurement Portal, please express your interest by registering on the BRAVO e-procurement portal website https://www.nhssourcing.co.uk. Once registered potential providers will be able to complete their submission.

It is anticipated that this procurement will open late summer 2018, for further information please contact: brenda.powell@greaterhuddersfieldccg.nhs.uk


About the buyer

Contact name

Brenda Powell

Address

5th Floor, F Mill
Dean Clough Mills
HALIFAX
HX35AX
England

Telephone

01484 464262

Email

brenda.powell@greaterhuddersfieldccg.nhs.uk

Website

www.calderdaleccg.nhs.uk