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COVID-19 Test Digital Platform

IT services: consulting
software development
Internet and support
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE42)
Published value
Not published
Submission deadline Not published
Lots published1
Procurement Executive Summary
AI & Search Synopsis
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Tenderline Synopsis: Health and Social Care Information Centre, known as NHS Digital: "COVID-19 Test Digital Platform". Published status: complete. Published value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.
Contracting AuthorityHealth and Social Care Information Centre, known as NHS DigitalScope & CategoriesNot publishedSubmission Window
complete
No deadline published
Submission GatewayDirect notice routeLegal Basis & RegimeStandard procurementEstimated Value (exc. VAT)Not published
Bidder Intelligence · Authority Profile: Health and Social Care Information Centre, known as NHS Digital
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Published history for Health and Social Care Information Centre, known as NHS Digital. These figures describe retained records, not a forecast of bids or a measure of buyer bias.
Published-to-award variance
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Competition Density
1Bids / Report
100% of reports have one bid
Supplier ConcentrationNo estimate
Insufficient attributable awardsNo concentration estimate available
Payment Terms
Check noticePublished terms
Payment obligations depend on the applicable regime and contract. Consult the official documents.
Coverage: 1 active published awards; 1 bid reports (which may be per lot). Supplier values exclude multi-supplier awards, frameworks and DPS, and use GBP only. They are published award values, not payments. Published-to-award variance compares single-lot, single-award, single-supplier GBP procedures with explicitly non-framework/non-DPS status; increases remain in the average. Unpublished data stays unknown. Awarded suppliers are winners, not all bidders.
Procedure terms
Contracting AuthorityHealth and Social Care Information Centre, known as NHS Digital
Procedure methodNot published
Procurement categoryNot published
Statuscomplete
Framework / DPSNot published
CompetitionNot published
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basisNot published
Tender period startsNot published
Clarification deadlineNot published
Electronic submissionNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Published17 Feb 2021, 22:56 GMT
Last source update17 Feb 2021, 22:56 GMT
Recurring procurementNot published
ClassificationIT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
Delivery area
Yorkshire & Humber (UKE42)
OCIDocds-h6vhtk-029405
What is being bought
Contract with Deloitte LLP for the provision of digital solution design, build and live service of a digital platform, ordering portals and mobile applications to support the Covid-19 National Test Service. The services provided under this contract support the digital and data journey for COVID-19 testing, currently amounting to millions of tests each week, and have introduced new capabilities as the testing programme has evolved to support the pandemic response.
What changed
From the official release history
  1. Status changed to complete
    17 Feb 2021, 22:56 GMT
  2. Official notice release published
    17 Feb 2021, 22:56 GMT
  3. Buyer information updated
    17 Feb 2021, 22:56 GMT
Lots and requirements (1)
Published by the contracting authority
  • Lot 1 · #1
    Individual lot title not published
    cancelled
    Published valueNot published
    Please see the description provided at section II.1.4. The estimated contract value is £51,000,000. Additional information: Following signature of the original contract, a contract variation was entered into on 12 February 2021 in order to reflect an increase in the scope of services being provided. Pursuant to this contract variation, the maximum contract value was increased to £51,000,000. Due to the character limit, further information in relation to Section II.2.5 is set out in Section VI.3.
    Contract periodNot published
    EligibilityNot published
    Options / renewalNot published
Timeline
  1. Procedure published
    17 Feb 2021, 22:56 GMT
  2. Award active
    Not published · Not published
  3. Contract active
    Signed 18 Dec 2020, 00:00 GMT · £51,000,000
Commercial outcome and competition
Awards
Deloitte LLP
Not published · Not published · active
Contracts
COVID-19 Test Digital Platform
£51,000,000 · signed 18 Dec 2020, 00:00 GMT · active
Bid statistics
bids: 1 (lot 1)
Buyer and organisations in this procedure

Health and Social Care Information Centre, known as NHS Digital

Contracting authority GB-FTS-5988
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  • Health and Social Care Information Centre, known as NHS Digital
    buyer

    1 Trevelyan Square, Boar Lane, Leeds, UKE42, LS1 6AE
    NHSDcommercial@nhs.net
    +44 3003035678

  • Deloitte LLP
    supplier

    Hill House, 1 New Street Square, London, UKI, EC4A 3HQ
    +44 2079363000

  • Health and Social Care Information Centre, known as NHS Digital
    reviewBody

    Leeds
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Planning and rationale
Planning budgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Procedure rationale1) The Covid-19 outbreak is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern as declared by the World Health Organisation on 30 January 2020. The UK Government's response to the national emergency posed by COVID-19 included putting in place arrangements for large-scale testing for COVID-19 on an urgent basis. 2) Upon transition of responsibility of the Digital Delivery Lead role, NHS Digital awarded the contract to the supplier following the supplier's prior engagement with DHSC. 3) NHS Digital is satisfied the tests permitting use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication (Regulation 32(2)(b(ii)) are met: A. The works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator as competition is absent for technical reasons: Due to the highly bespoke nature of the testing services and the criticality of ensuring that the testing services continued uninterrupted, at the stage of contract award, the supplier was the only economic operator capable of facilitating the continuation of the testing services. It would be seriously counter-productive to the national effort to have carried out a procurement in respect of some or all of the workstreams being undertaken by the existing provider and/or that any attempt to potentially transition between providers in the context of ensuring that the relevant work progresses with appropriate rapidity could have led to material avoidable delay or risk of disruption to the service and the ability to access data which could have had a fundamental impact on the provision of testing services to citizens in England. B. No reasonable alternative or substitute exists - The continuation of the testing services was and is critical to England's response to the Coronavirus outbreak and the containment of the spread of the virus. If the existing supplier was unable to continue in the short-term to provide the services due to the transition of responsibility to another provider identified by NHS Digital, this could have had a catastrophic impact on the success of the TTCE strategy and may have resulted in further spreading of the virus due to difficulties in testing and isolating those who have tested positive. C. The absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement - this procurement is part of a procurement strategy by the UK government to provide a stable and effective digital testing platform to meet demand due to the Covid-19 pandemic.