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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-06c6f3). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** Somerset NHS Foundation Trust: "Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record". Published status: complete. Contract 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:** [Somerset NHS Foundation Trust](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/somerset-nhs-foundation-trust-nhs-rh5)
- **Contract Value (direct award):** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Direct award
- **Main Category:** Not published
- **Classifications (CPV):** None published
- **Delivery Location:** UKK
- **Legal Basis:** UKPGA 2023/54
- **Official Documents:** 4 published documents & notices ([view on Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/drug-knowledge-base-for-electronic-health-and-care-record-ocds-h6vhtk-06c6f3#documents))
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-06c6f3`

## 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-06c6f3#tl-md)

## Description
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust awarded a contract to  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 Healthset Programme for Epic electronic health and care record.
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 egulation 32(2)(b)(ii) as the contract can only be supplied by FBD UK as competition is absent for technical reasons.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 48000000, 72250000
- **Delivery regions:** UKK
- **Delivery countries in notice:** GB

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health andCare Record (cancelled)
  - Award id: `1`
  - Supplier(s): **FIRST DATABANK UK LTD**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-FTS-163463`
  - Value: £2,898,280 (exc. VAT)
  - Date: 07/07/2026

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F068480-2026)
- **Last Source Update:** 2026-07-21T07:28:33.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-28T14:49:59.481Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-06c6f3