Official UK procurement notice
Orion Contract Support for NIECR
Authority: Business Services Organisation I T S
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionSince its inception in 2013, NIECR has become a critical system for Healthcare staff across Northern Ireland providing key, up-to-date patient information. NIECR is a web based portal that sits on top of a large range of current HSC information and clinical systems to give Health and Social Care professionals a single consolidated view of a patient's key medical information.
NIECR is a critical front line system providing a clinical interface for over 30,000 active users. The number of users continues to steadily increase from across all Secondary Care Trusts, Ambulance Service, Primary Care (including GP Out of Hours), community and the independent sector. Many of the users are front line users who depend on NIECR to inform clinical decision making especially in emergency situations when essential medical background information would not be available and a patient could be at risk if for example a medication is prescribed without knowing the contraindications.
CPV: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
The lotProcurement structure
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
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- Price
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Nov 2021, 16:04 GMT
- Last source update
- 25 Nov 2021, 16:04 GMT
- Authority reference
STA10200- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-029369- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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- 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
NIECR is a critical front line system providing a clinical interface for over 30,000 active users. The number of users continues to steadily increase from across all Secondary Care Trusts, Ambulance Service, Primary Care (including GP Out of Hours), community and the independent sector. Many of the users are front line users who depend on NIECR to inform clinical decision making especially in emergency situations when essential medical background information would not be available and a patient could be at risk if for example a medication is prescribed without knowing the contraindications.
There is also a requirement to replace existing NIECR interfaces for the new HSC ICT programmes i.e. DIS, NIPACs, LIMS etc. to maintain up-to-date information within NIECR.
Patient Portal as a module of NIECR provides a clinical view from within NIECR and a patient facing view via a web application. The patient portal is available to patients from all clinical specialties who are using NIECR. The Patient Portal will continue to require support and development by Orion Health as the user base expands
Orion Health own Intellectual Property rights to NIECR and therefore no other supplier would have rights to amend the software in order to provide support or new developments. In addition to the IP rights being held by the supplier, BSO would not have the skills or resources required to support the significant workload necessary to maintain the range and various individual elements of the NIECR services.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Orion Health | — | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Orion Contract Support for NIECR · Orion Health
- Signed
- 25 Nov 2021
- Value
- —
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Lot | Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Since its inception in 2013, NIECR has become a critical system for Healthcare staff… | — | — | — | £4,500,000 – £8,500,000 |
| Whole notice | — | — | — | £4,500,000 – £8,500,000 |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Business Services OrganisationReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Orion HealthAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.