Official UK procurement notice
PHE - Corporate - ICT - PHE - Corporate - ICT- Hopin All-in-one Virtual Event Platform
Authority: Public Health England
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionPublic Health England, an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social and Care (DH) (hereafter referred to as "Public Health England" or "PHE" also referred to as the "Contracting Authority" or the "Authority" or the "Employer") is wishes to award Hopin a one year licence agreement for a All-in-one virtual events platform. This software has been identified as a tool to help the transition team engage with a variety of stakeholders (internal and external) at scale in order to support the large scale change that is taking place.
CPV: Communication software package
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1To enable large numbers of colleagues to be actively involved in the development of…
To enable large numbers of colleagues to be actively involved in the development of the new public health system. There is a need to enable people to come together. This has to be done virtually and is not simply a large meeting that could be accommodated on Teams. To support the next stage of the programme a large scale conference platform is required. Hopin is a virtual online events platform that allows for the hosting large scale online conferencing events with up to 100,000 attendees. The platform mimics a large-scale event, providing on stage and backstage spaces including multiple meeting rooms which can all be run in parallel, allowing for people to migrate between spaces. The platform is customisable and allows for analysis of post event data to improve future sessions. This has been identified as a tool to help the transition team engage with a variety of stakeholders (internal and external) at scale in order to support the large scale change that is taking place.
Hopin is able to replicate a face to face event virtually, giving participants a different experience to any other platforms on the market:
- Virtual platform for large scale events involving over 1,000 participants.
- Ability for participants to interact with speakers and content via polls, voting, annotation, chat box, Q&A function and breakout rooms with audio and video link.
-Participants from more than one organisation
-Multiple parallel meetings/conversations (e.g. breakout rooms)
-Meeting rooms which have varying access requirements (e.g. presenter only rooms, role specific rooms, open rooms)
-Meeting rooms which have varying functional requirements (e.g. different speaking privileges, live documents, chat types)
-Over 90 minutes in length
-Multiple sequences / rounds of meetings
-Ability to both control participant movement and also let participants move freely
-Generated content (documents/annotations/recordings) to move between rooms
Large amounts of data generation (10,000+ chat words)
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
- Goods
- 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
- 18 Mar 2021, 22:56 GMT
- Last source update
- 18 Mar 2021, 22:56 GMT
- FTS notice number
2021/S 000-005576- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-029d39Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
The products involved are manufactured purely for the purpose of research, experiment, study or development under the conditions stated in the directive; The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
- Published justification
We have previously reviewed the market and at this stage we are unable to source an equivalent software product to run large scale virtual events. We have drawn on work undertaken by NHS Horizons colleagues with NHSX to understand the market for online conferencing products, evaluate products available and the extent to which they are able to meet our functional requirements and offer a good quality delegate experience, and this Hopin product has been identified as the best / most suitable. Without this platform, we limit the impact of engagement efforts impacting on the overall success of the reform and transition programme in the following ways: Interactive Virtual events will be restricted by numbers, and the level of audience engagement will be low, this will reduce the effectiveness of large meetings in their ability to bring systems and communities together to deliver programmes of change. Therefore, a direct award to Hopin is appropriate and justified based on PCR 2015 regulations, clause 32.2b (ii), which state that; the negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:— (ii) competition is absent for technical reasons.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecastContracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Not applicableReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- HopinAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.