Official UK procurement notice
Digital Capability for Health
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 put in place a Collaborative Agreement for use by NHS Digital and other public sector health and social care bodies for the provision of digital outcomes and supporting services. The scope of the Agreement covers the following:
DevOps Services
Digital Definition Services
Build and Transition Services
End-to-End Development Services
Data Management (and Similar) Services
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
How this framework works
From the published notice- Bids received
- 47 bids received · 14 suppliers appointed
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Crown Commercial Service, as the Authority, has put in place an agreement for the…Awarded
Crown Commercial Service, as the Authority, has put in place an agreement for the provision of Digital Capability for Health for use by NHS Digital and other public sector health and social care bodies for the provision of digital outcomes and supporting services. The agreement was developed with NHS Digital as the Operator, who requires digital capability to meet specific needs of the health and social care sector.
NHS Digital requires suppliers to invest in understanding their specific organisational needs and to bespoke delivery of their services to meet requirements.
This framework has 12 suppliers with whom NHS Digital will develop strategic relationships over a period of time, to warrant up-front investment in framework level supplier agnostic competition, whilst maintaining effective and efficient competition at call-off. Building of closer strategic relationships will encourage the suppliers to improve and innovate on their delivery of services.
This will be achieved through ongoing collaborative partnership or supplier relationship management activities based on feedback from call-off contracts and MI reports.
Suppliers under the framework are required to provide the following Service Provisions:
DevOps Services - support for ongoing live services
Digital Definition Services - either separately or combined Extended Discovery and /or Alpha phases.
Build and Transition Services - either separately combining Beta phase and/or Retirement phases (including transition to Live). It is anticipated that Live will be covered by an appropriate competition for DevOps Services.
End-to-End Development Services - with the ability to combine the full set of agile phases of Discovery through to Live.
Data Management (and Similar) Services - primarily targeted at building, enhancing and maintaining data assets, migrating data from one system to another and analysis and reporting from such data assets.
Call-off competitions under this framework will follow NHS Digital’s standard governance processes for their requirements. There is no direct award call-off in this agreement.
Typical digital development will follow Government Digital Service (GDS) life cycle: discovery, alpha, beta and so on, outlined in the government service design manual (www.gov.uk/service-manual ↗).
Suppliers will deliver work using GDS agile methodologies.
The framework will address the evolving technical ‘stacks’ associated within the different pillars of NHS Digital, including:
Platforms and infrastructure
Product development
Data 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
- 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” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, 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
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 11 Feb 2021, 22:56 GMT
- Last source update
- 15 Oct 2024, 15:34 BST
- Authority reference
RM6221- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-033182- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-02928eFind a Tender
Publisher note: The value provided in Section II.1.7 is only an estimate. We cannot guarantee to suppliers any business through this Commercial Agreement. As part of this contract award notice the following can be accessed at: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a9899b08-d48d-46e1-89fa-09886c9c311f 1) Redacted Commercial Agreement; 2) List of Successful Suppliers; 3) Customer list On 2.4.2014 Government introduced its Government Security Classifications (GSC) scheme which replaced Government Protective Marking Scheme (GPMS). A key aspect is the reduction in the number of security classifications used. All bidders were required to make themselves aware of the changes as it may impact this requirement. This link provides information on the GSC at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications 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 were required to demonstrate they comply with the technical requirements prescribed by Cyber Essentials, for services under and in connection with this procurement.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast13 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.
Contracts
All 13 of these contracts carry the same published figure, £800,000,000, the framework's maximum for the whole notice, not each contract's own value. They are not eleven separate sums.
Digital Capability for Health
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Contract 033182-2024-RM6221-1
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- Change In accordance with Regulation 72 paragraph (1)(e) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015, CCS intends to modify the Digital Capability for Health framework (RM6221) by extending the term by six (6) months. This agreement will now expire 17/07/2025., Need for modification brought about by circumstances which a diligent contracting authority/entity could not foresee: Digital Capability for Health has been extended so that a number of NHS England projects have been able to go through their approvals process, which had to start before CCS were able to confirm dates for the new iteration of the framework Digital Capability for Health 2 (RM6345).
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
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| 47bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Crown Commercial ServicesReview contact point
Framework contractors & participating bidders
14 commercial parties on the notice- Accenture (UK) LimitedFramework contractor
- Aire Logic LimitedFramework contractor
- BJSS LimitedFramework contractor
- Capita Business Services Limited (CBSL)Framework contractor
- Cognizant Worldwide LimitedFramework contractor
- Hippo Digital LimitedFramework contractor
- IBM United Kingdom LimitedFramework contractor
- Infinity Works Consulting LimitedFramework contractor
- Informed Solutions LtdFramework contractor
- Kainos Software LimitedFramework contractor
Show 4 more suppliers
- Mastek UK LtdFramework contractor
- Netcompany UK LimitedFramework contractor
- See Contracts Finder Notice for full supplier listFramework contractor
- The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service (CCS)Framework contractor
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.