Provision of IT Platform for Referral Management and Advice and Guidance to Somerset Integrated Care Board

NHS Somerset are seeking expressions of interest from organisations to provide an asynchronous and synchronous IT solution for the provision of Advice and Guidance between practitioners and clinicians for use by all within their respective Integrated Care System. A robust and effective Advice and Guidance digital platform solution is central to the vision outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan of 'one click away' specialist advice and guidance for primary care. The Commissioner requires the provision to support senior clinician advice and guidance for acute care pre-admission/pre referral communications between Primary care (including community and paramedic staff) and Secondary care for use across both Urgent and Planned Care pathways, and to enable uploading and sending documents and images from mobile devices/laptops to support patient outcome and ease of access to the health care providers. The solution should utilise and integrate with NHS e-Referral Service, acute and community hospital Patient Administration and Medical record systems and Primary care medical information systems. The solution should utilise a range of quick and simple delivery modes including direct call access to a specialist, ability to send multimedia content (e.g., photographs / documents / scans) and written record of the exchange, with the potential ability to send videos where appropriate. Each mode of delivery should be configurable and adaptable on a specialty basis, with potential for a wider team approach to response. Advice must be made available through this single system which also notifies the requestor when a response is available. The contract will be let for an initial period of 2 years, with optional extension of up to a further 2 years, to a maximum total length of 4 years. The value for the initial 1st year term is £252,000 and the maximum whole life (2 year) value is £504,000. All values provided are inclusive of any non-recoverable VAT. This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central & West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Authority. Additional information: The services are subject to the full regime of current procurement legislation and as such this tender will be conducted in accordance with, and governed by, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This contract will therefore be awarded in accordance with the provisions applicable in Section 5 (sub-section 7) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.