Official UK procurement notice
Essential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight
Authority: Belfast Health & Social Care Trust (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionEssential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight, transitional arrangement
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Awarded
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
- 16 Jan 2023, 15:21 GMT
- Last source update
- 6 Feb 2023, 14:43 GMT
- Authority reference
DAC10950- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-003594- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0397e1Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights
- Published justification
Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI) is currently working on the implementation of encompass, an Electronic Health and Care Record (EHCR) that will underpin the service transformation and healthcare needs of the population of Northern Ireland. Encompass will replace multiple aging HSC Trust systems and numerous paper records and manual workflows and the EHCR will deliver significant core functionality across the acute, community and primary care Out of Hours sectors. The contract for the provision of the EHCR solution was awarded to Epic in May 2020. No other reasonable alternative exists for this procurement, this Ophthalmology electronic records system is essential to patient care and service delivery. Medisoft Limited are the sole supplier of this System and have exclusive rights over the software, licences and updates for this system. The functionality of this system is within the core scope of the Encompass procurement. This contract is required to cover the transitional period and a replacement in the short-term is not a reasonable alternative as it would require extensive ICT infrastructure, validation and integration work that would result in significant disruption and lead to disproportionate technical difficulties that would impact on the Trusts ability to provide a an Ophthalmology service. The wider market was consulted when Encompass was procured. The absence of competition is not a result of the artificial narrowing of the parameters of the procurement
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medisoft LimitedSME | £105,000 †same award published again · counted once | — | Awarded |
| Medisoft LimitedSMEEssential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight, transitional arrangemen | £105,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Essential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight, transitional arrangemen · Medisoft LimitedSME
- Signed
- 3 Feb 2023
- Value
- £105,000
- Status
- active
Essential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight · Medisoft LimitedSME
- Signed
- 16 Jan 2023
- Value
- £105,000
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Medisoft LimitedAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.