Official UK procurement notice
Digital health Hub for Patients and Carers with Rare Diseases
Authority: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP) - Procurement Services (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (UHB) and NHS Executive who are seeking to establish a five year contract to develop a digital health hub for patients suffering from rare diseases, and their carers, who are registered in Wales. The digital health hub will be a regional approach for AB UHB, C&V UHB and CTM UHB.
CPV: Information systems or technology planning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Care Circle will work with Cardiff and Vale UHB and the rare disease community to…
Care Circle will work with Cardiff and Vale UHB and the rare disease community to develop a digital hub which includes established patient groups, and health care professional teams. The hub will supply a safe and secure social platform that provides the capacity for discussion, dissemination of robust information and provision of peer support, signposting of people to this space and to CVUHB, capacity for members to track and record their symptoms and journal their health experience and use the symptom checker (including download of the symptom checker report).
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 5 Nov 2024, 15:42 GMT
- Last source update
- 5 Nov 2024, 15:42 GMT
- Authority reference
CAV-VEA (24-25) 106- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-035830- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04b420Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
Cardiff and Vale UHB and its regional partners have a requirement to develop a digital health hub for patients suffering from rare diseases, and their carers, who are registered in Wales. The goal of the project is to support the four-nation approach to develop a Rare Disease Action Plan to improve the lives of those living with a rare disease and to provide the remote care component of this work, which has previously been considered vital but undeliverable. The digital hub will be co-created with the rare disease community, which includes established patient groups, and health care professional teams. This will improve communication, reduce feelings of isolation, improve co-ordination of care and patient empowerment, alongside social prescribing, data linkage, carer support. The development of patient registries and use of AI will transform the rate of research and therapy development in Rare Disease.
Due to limited funding within this area, C&V UHB and NHS Wales Executive have been working with Industry on potential solutions and as such, Care Circle have offered to develop the digital health hub free of charge on a five year contract.
Based on the above, the Authority is issuing this notice and applying a 10 day standstill period prior to awarding a five year contract.
- Review procedure
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Health Board will allow a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period between notifying the award decision and awarding the contract.
Publisher note: (WA Ref:145265)
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| CARECIRCLE TECHNOLOGY LTD | £1 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 035830-2024-CAV-VEA (24-25) 106-1 · CARECIRCLE TECHNOLOGY LTD
- Signed
- 5 Nov 2024
- Value
- £1
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- CARECIRCLE TECHNOLOGY LTDAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.