Contract award · 14 Dec 2020

Purchase of Perpetual Licence for Electronic Patient Record System

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership awarded “Purchase of Perpetual Licence for Electronic Patient Record System” to Nugensis Ltd. for £135k on 14 Dec 2020. Awarded without open competition.

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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.

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Key facts

Buyer
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership · Body governed by public law
Value
£135,000
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
IT services · Software programming and consultancy services (CPV 72200000)
Region
Wales
Timeline
  1. Contract date14 Dec 2020
  2. Published11 Feb 2021Published 59 days after the contract date

Description

EMRTS wish to award a contract to Nugensis Ltd. make modifications to its existing bespoke electronic patient record system to add the following functionality; 1. Server side email functionality to allow the current system to send patient summaries via NHS wales exchange server 2. Development of a functionality to allow hospitals to make a booking from within the system and pass the pre-populated information into the main patient record 3. To produce a formatted server generated PDF of patient summary’s for handover to hospital and to support email functionality 4. To add increased granularity of post incident case reviews, to support audit activities. 5. To interface the system with an existing SMS API to enable text messaging alerts The system in use is bespoke to the service and currently hosted on SBU Health Board infrastructure. Any modifications to the system would require work to be completed by the existing supplier in cooperation with the health board. The award of this contract to the existing supplier will also ensure business continuity with the current system and infrastructure arrangements. Additional information: Contract awarded to Nugensis

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