Contract award · 17 Apr 2020

Covid-19: DHSC: NHSX - Remote Symptoms Tracking System, App and supply of SpO2 Devices

Department of Health and Social Care awarded “Covid-19: DHSC: NHSX - Remote Symptoms Tracking System, App and supply of SpO2 Devices” to Huma Therapeutics Limited for £282k on 17 Apr 2020. Awarded without open competition.

No competitionSoftware & information systemsLondon

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
Department of Health and Social Care · Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
Value
£282,218
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Software & information systems · Medical software package (CPV 48180000)
Region
London
Timeline
  1. Contract date17 Apr 2020
  2. Published6 Mar 2021Published 323 days after the contract date

Description

A programme to deploy remote monitoring of COVID patientsNHSX was reviewing the deployment of remote monitoring to ensure that patients have access to medical care during the Covid19 pandemic. Medopad (owned by Huma Therapeutics Ltd) is a remote monitoring product that had completed the Digital Health London accelerator, and had approached NHSX (following the national call for innovator assistance) following their similar work with other EU governments, as part of their Covid19 response. The two use cases is for this programme of work were to perform daily monitoring on the Covid-19 patients that had been recently discharged from hospital and provide an electronic monitoring of potential Covid-19 patients who were routed through primary care hot hubs. Both use cases allowed the early identification of deterioration of patients and ensure that health professionals could intervene before their patients found it difficult to breath and had long lasting damage to their lungs. This procurement was for access to the "Medopad software as a service and Application" for a pilot in two London NHS Trusts.The supplier was selected as they hold the IPR or provision of their remote system, mobile application. This was provided pro bono for the period 20/04/20 to 31/12/20 inclusive. However, DHSC had to purchase 20,000 Pulse Oximeters at pace to allocate to the Pilot's patients and these were in short supply and high demand in April 2020, as a number of countries were rolling out a similar pilot scheme. DHSC agreed one-off supply contract for these Pulse Oximeters via Huma's supply chain to ensure stock was available immediately, and configured to meet the Pilot's specification.. Additional information: A copy of the redacted contract is provided at the following linkhttps://atamis-1928.cloudforce.com/sfc/p/0O000000rwim/a/4J000000kHb2/6dYIxgutqoH6wT7FRGhuKv.vO33BHUY6PZLTFcQmoqA

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