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title: "Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record"
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# Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/drug-knowledge-base-for-electronic-health-and-care-record-ocds-h6vhtk-029222). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Business Services Organisation: "Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [Business Services Organisation](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/business-services-organisation-GB-FTS-424)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support, IT software package, Industry specific software package, Information systems and servers, Software package suites (+1 more)
- **Delivery Location:** UKN
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £5,644,000 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-029222`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/drug-knowledge-base-for-electronic-health-and-care-record-ocds-h6vhtk-029222#tl-md)

## Description
HSC 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.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 48100000, 48422000, 48517000, 48800000, 72000000
- **Delivery regions:** UKN

- **Description:** 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 ...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (2)
- **Award:** 002747-2021-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **First Data Bank UK**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-10286`
  - Value: £5,644,000 † (exc. VAT)

- **Award:** Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record (active)
  - Award id: `006202-2021-DAC9363-1`
  - Supplier(s): **First Data Bank UK**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-10286`
  - Value: £5,644,000 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (2)
- **Contract:** Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record (active)
  - Signed Value: £5,644,000
  - Signed Date: 26/03/2021

- **Contract:** 002747-2021-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £5,644,000
  - Signed Date: 21/01/2021

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F006202-2021)
- **Last Source Update:** 2021-03-26T12:06:01.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-24T08:43:15.115Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-029222