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 I T S · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- System C
- Value
- £350,000
- 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
- 010468-2024 on Find a Tender
- Timeline
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- Contract date29 Mar 2024
- Published29 Mar 2024Published the same day
Description
The Regional Pharmacy Stock Control system (known as JAC Pharmacy) is used across NHSCT, SHSCT and WHSCT trusts in Northern Ireland. and share patient medication information to the NIECR application. It replaced the PILs system that was developed and supported in-house back in 2011 The Medicines Management Technology Support (MMTS) project had identified the JAC Pharmacy application as the solution to address the requirement for technology for Pharmacy Service in acute hospitals across Northern Ireland. This is essential to delivering modern services in a financially challenging environment, with the application of modern technology being critical to the further development of the Pharmacy Service. The JAC system is a Medicines Management database that is deployed in Northern, Southern and Western trusts across all of their hospitals for acute care. JAC is an ordering, dispensing, sterile manufacturing and stock management tool for pharmacy and ward staff. If the system is unavailable…
About the supplier
System C: every public contract they have won, plus their Companies House record (company 01754990).