Published date: 15 May 2024

Last edited date: 17 May 2024

This notice was replaced on 23 January 2025

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 23 January 2025)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Software package and information systems - 48000000

Location of contract

South West

Value of contract

£15,000,000

Procurement reference

BWPCIT001692-1

Published date

15 May 2024

Closing date

12 July 2024

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

5 January 2025

Contract end date

4 January 2029

Contract type

Supply 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

Trusts across the West of England are committed to the implementation of a digital technology infrastructure enabling radiology image sharing. The West of England Target Operating Model for imaging across the Network is to transform and develop imaging services to support growth in activity and complexity of clinical care pathways resulting in improved patient outcomes. Pivotal to the delivery of this vision is securing the digital infrastructure to share images and associated information between providers and consumers of imaging services. This sharing of images must be safe, timely, resilient and efficient.

This is a procurement for a single supplier framework which will be awarded to one supplier only to allow all trusts in the West of England Imaging Network to call off from for the following 4 lots.
1 PACS
2 RIS
3 A sharing solution
4 Associated Storage

Any bidder will need to bid for all 4 lots to be considered. The framework will be open for the maximum period of 4 years for Trusts to call off from with contract lengths for an anticipated 10 years as a maximum in a 5+3+2 contract, but may be for varying lengths in line with ambitions to have a co terminus end date for ease of network procurement at the end of the contracts.

The West of England Imaging Network consists of :
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
North Bristol NHS Trust
Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust

The aim of the framework is to allow Network Trusts to procure a single instance of PACS and RIS as and when it becomes viable in line with their current incumbent contracts. In addition, for the Trusts who are unable to join for a longer period of time due to their current contracts, this framework shall allow those Trusts to procure the sharing solution until such a time as they are able to join the single instance of PACS and RIS.
As the Network host, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust will be the host of the framework, and the procurement will be run through Bristol and Weston Purchasing Consortium and as such will use their e-procurement system SAP Ariba, bidders will need register to ensure access to the tender.

Details, timelines and values are subject to change.

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

West of England Imaging Network - Imaging Framework

  • Future opportunity
  • Published 13 March 2024, last edited 23 April 2024

Links

About the buyer

Contact name

Fiona Lowther

Address

Christopher Hancock Building
North Bristol NHS Trust
BRISTOL
BS10 5NB
England

Telephone

01174140496

Email

fiona.lowther@nbt.nhs.uk

Website

www.nbt.nhs.uk/bristol-weston-nhs-purchasing-consortium