Official UK procurement notice
Digital Capability for Health 2
Authority: The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionCrown Commercial Service (CCS) as the Authority has put in place a Pan Public Sector agreement for the provision of application development and management service for Public Health and Social Care programmes. The agreement can be utilised by Central Government Departments and all other UK Public Sector Bodies, including Local Authorities, Health, Police, Fire and Rescue, Education and Devolved Administrations.
Digital Capability for Health 2 is the next iteration of RM6221 Digital Capability for Health and will continue to provide application development and management service for Public Health and Social Care Programmes. We ran the framework agreement procurement under PCR 2015.
CPV: Custom software development services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
How this framework works
From the published notice- Places
- up to 20 suppliers · 79 bids received (4.0 per place) · 1 appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · value publishedLot #1This has been awarded as an single lot, which includes services in the following five…AwardedRenewalPublished value£1,200,000,000
This has been awarded as an single lot, which includes services in the following five areas:
- Development and operations (DevOps) - for ongoing minor improvements of live
services
- Digital definition services - creating and progressing the project through discovery
and alpha phases
3 Build and transition services - building the services using beta
and live phases
- End-to-end development services - designing and developing the services from
discovery to live phases
- Data management (and similar) services - for performing data collection, data
processing and analysis and management of data and services
What it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: 70
- Price: 30
- Suitability
Candidates will be assessed in accordance with Section 5 of the 2015 Public Contract Regulations (implementing the directive) on the basis of information provided in response to an invitation to tender (ITT) registering for access.
- Staff
- Names and qualifications of delivery staff must be submitted
- Price carries 30 of 100 points: a 10% discount moves about 3 points. The method statement decides this lot, not the discount.
- “Digital Capability for Health 2” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, up to 20 suppliers, not a single contract.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Open procedure
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- No (one-off requirement)
- First published
- 2 Feb 2024, 13:29 GMT
- Last source update
- 8 Jan 2025, 17:13 GMT
- Award evaluation window
- 21 Jun 2024 – …
- Authority reference
RM6345- FTS notice number
2025/S 000-000581- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0436cdFind a Tender
Publisher note: As part of this contract award notice the following can be accessed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9a5b1f21-8bcd-481d-97ad-7adb3e425e9e 1) Redacted Commercial Agreement 2) List of Successful Suppliers 3) Approved Customer list 4) Transparency Agenda The Government Security Classifications (GSC) Policy came into force on 2 April 2014 and describes how HM Government classifies information assets to ensure they are appropriately protected. It applies to all information that Government collects, stores, processes, generates or shares to deliver services and conduct business. Cyber Essentials is a mandatory requirement for Central Government contracts which involve handling personal information or provide certain ICT products/services. Government is taking steps to reduce the levels of cyber security risk in its supply chain through the Cyber Essentials scheme. The scheme defines a set of controls which, when implemented, will provide organisations with basic protection from the most prevalent forms of threat coming from the internet. To participate in this procurement, bidders must be able to demonstrate they comply with the technical requirements prescribed by Cyber Essentials, for services under and in connection with this procurement. Refer to https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/cyber-essentials-faqs for more information. Some purchases under this framework Agreement may have requirements that can be met under this Framework Agreement but the purchase of which may be exempt from the Procurement Regulations (as defined in Attachment 1 – About the framework within the invitation to tender documentation). In such cases, Call-offs from this Framework will be unregulated purchases for the purposes of the Procurement Regulations, and the buyers may, at their discretion, modify the terms of the Framework and any Call-off Contracts to reflect that buyer’s specific needs. CCS reserved the right to award a framework to any bidder whose final score was within 1% of the last position. This procurement was managed electronically via the eSourcing suite. This was the route for sharing all information and communicating with bidders.
How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
- 26 Jun 2024, 15:00 BST
- Submission channel
- {"electronicSubmission","written"}
- Accepted languages
- en
- Bids opened
- 21 Jun 2024, 15:01 BST
Timeline
15 May 2024 → 26 Jan 2025 · 5 dates- Next notice expected15 May 2024, 00:00 BST
- Bids opened21 Jun 2024, 15:01 BST
- Admission / appointment period endsperiod end, not a bid countdown26 Jun 2024, 15:00 BST
- Notice published8 Jan 2025, 17:13 GMT
- Bids must remain valid until26 Jan 2025, 23:59 GMT
Notice history
4 events · 4 releases on Find a Tender · since 17 May 2024- Status changed to active17 May 2024, 14:39 BST
- Procurement method changed17 May 2024, 14:39 BST
- Deadline published: 21 Jun 2024, 15:00 BST17 May 2024, 14:39 BST
- Status changed to complete8 Jan 2025, 17:13 GMT
Published amendments (2 · 2 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | DeadlineTime limit for receipt of expressions of interest of the Contract Notice: · IV.2.2 | 21 Jun 2024 | 26 Jun 2024 | +5 d |
| — | Bid openingConditions for opening of tenders · IV.2.7 | 21 Jun 2024 | 26 Jun 2024 | +5 d |
| — | DeadlineTime limit for receipt of expressions of interest of the Contract Notice: · IV.2.2 | 21 Jun 2024 | 26 Jun 2024 | +5 d |
| — | Bid openingConditions for opening of tenders · IV.2.7 | 21 Jun 2024 | 26 Jun 2024 | +5 d |
2 amendments published without a description.
Routine re-releases (4)
- 2024-02: 1 release · 2 Feb 2024
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast1 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
Contract 000581-2025-1
- Signed
- 10 Dec 2024
- Value
- £1,200,000,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 79bids | 32 | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Framework contractors & participating bidders
1 commercial party on the notice- See Contracts Finder Notice for full supplier listFramework contractor
Official documents & specifications (4)
Official links; attachments are not copiedTender pack and attachments
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria
- Economic and financial selection criteria
- Technical selection criteria