Official UK procurement notice
Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record
Authority: Business Services Organisation·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionHSC Business Services Organisation intends to enter into an agreement with First Data Bank (FDB) UK for the provision of FDB Multilex. Multilex is FDB UK's proprietary software which provides medicines optimisation and clinical decision support for medicines management for the purposes of embedding within the encompass Programme Epic electronic health and care record.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support · IT software package · Industry specific software package · Information systems and servers · Software package suites · System and support services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The Epic product that has been procured to deliver the encompass Programme across…Awarded
The Epic product that has been procured to deliver the encompass Programme across HSCNI requires the purchase and configuration and embedding of a drug knowledge base which meets the following standards:
- a NICE accredited clinical decision support module
- a drug dictionary that is compliant with the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) standard (SCCI0052)
- includes GS1 barcodes to enable compliance with the Falsified Medicines Directive (Directive 2011/62/EU). (Note: Northern Ireland is still expected to comply with this Directive under the Northern Ireland Protocol following EU Exit).
Key functionality required by encompass and delivered by the embedding of a drug knowledge base includes:
o A drug dictionary that is compliant with the dm+d standard (SCCI0052).
o NHS Indicative Pricing
o EAN/GS1 Barcodes
o British National Formulary Warnings (Mandatory Instructions)
o Drug - drug interactions
o Sensitivity checking
o Duplicate therapy checking
o Patient condition checking (Contraindications and Precautions)
o Warnings
o Dose range check (DRC)
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- 10 Feb 2021, 16:31 GMT
- Last source update
- 26 Mar 2021, 12:06 GMT
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-006202- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-029222Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
- Published justification
First Data Bank (FDB) UK is the provider of Multilex. The FDB Multilex drug knowledge base embeds with existing Epic workflows to enable bar coded medicines administration, clinical decision support and inventory management. FDB Multilex drug knowledge base is used in all UK Epic installations and is the only drug knowledge base product available with the core functionality required by encompass. The Authority is relying on Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) as the contract can only be supplied by FBD UK as competition is absent for technical reasons.
Notice history
1 event · 2 releases on Find a Tender- Buyer details updated26 Mar 2021, 12:06 GMT
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Data Bank UK | £5,644,000 †same award published again · counted once | — | Awarded |
| First Data Bank UK | £5,644,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record · First Data Bank UK
- Signed
- 26 Mar 2021
- Value
- £5,644,000
- Status
- active
Contract 002747-2021-1 · First Data Bank UK
- Signed
- 21 Jan 2021
- Value
- £5,644,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- EncompassContracting authorityBody governed by public lawHealth
Bidders & participating suppliers
2 commercial parties on the notice- First Data Bank UKAwarded supplier
- First Data Bank UKAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.