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
- Business Services Organisation · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Dedalus
- Value
- £308,356.95
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- IT services · IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support (CPV 72000000)
- Region
- Northern Ireland
- Official notice
- 010330-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date28 Mar 2024
- Published28 Mar 2024Published the same day
Description
License, Support & Maintenance for XPR/PAS Access to XPR Database that is managed by Dedalus and is directly linked to the Patient Administration system (PAS). With encompass roll out not due to complete until 2025, the new NIDIS service still needs to be able to send demographics and HCN number data to the XPR for those Trusts still using PAS. Without this there is a risk to patient safety and will cause fragmentation of patient records. These services have been supplied by Dedalus as part of their Managed Service until now. The services are required until Encompass is live in all 5 Trusts. The prices, volumes and duration of the DAC will be minimised by cancelling the contract as soon as Encompass is live in all 5 Trusts and there is no longer a requirement for the service. The long-standing relationship that BSO has with the current patient administration system (PAS), currently managed by Dedalus, has enabled us to obtain similar pricing to what was previously purchased under the …
About the supplier
Dedalus: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 12790545).