Awarded without open competition
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Key facts
- Buyer
- Encompass · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- First Data Bank UK
- Value
- £5,644,000
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Software & information systems · Industry specific software package (CPV 48100000)
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 002747-2021 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date21 Jan 2021
- Published10 Feb 2021Published 20 days after the contract date
Description
The Epic product that has been procured to deliver the encompass Programme across HSCNI requires the purchase and configuration and embedding of a drug knowledge base which meets the following standards: • a NICE accredited clinical decision support module • a drug dictionary that is compliant with the NHS Dictionary of Medicines and Devices (dm+d) standard (SCCI0052) • includes GS1 barcodes to enable compliance with the Falsified Medicines Directive (Directive 2011/62/EU). (Note: Northern Ireland is still expected to comply with this Directive under the Northern Ireland Protocol following EU Exit). Key functionality required by encompass and delivered by the embedding of a drug knowledge base includes: o A drug dictionary that is compliant with the dm+d standard (SCCI0052). o NHS Indicative Pricing o EAN/GS1 Barcodes o British National Formulary Warnings (Mandatory Instructions) o Drug - drug interactions o Sensitivity checking o Duplicate therapy checking o Patient condition checking (Contraindications and Precautions) o Warnings o Dose range check (DRC)
About the supplier
First Data Bank UK: every public contract they have won.