Award

Point of Care Services to Community Pharmacies 2025-26

NHS ENGLAND AND NHS IMPROVEMENT

This public procurement record has 5 releases in its history.

Award

25 Apr 2025 at 12:52

Planning

17 Jul 2024 at 15:33

Planning

21 Jun 2024 at 17:30

Planning

21 Jun 2024 at 17:10

Planning

19 Jun 2024 at 13:04

Summary of the contracting process

NHS England and NHS Improvement have completed the procurement process for the "Point of Care Services to Community Pharmacies 2025-26" contract, focusing on data capture services within clinical settings across England. The procurement, classified under the CPV code 72313000, operated under a restricted procedure above threshold, involving selective procurement measures. The procurement reached the award stage, with contracts being awarded to four suppliers: EMIS(Optum), Sonar, Cegedim, and Positive, enabling these organisations to deliver Point of Care systems in community pharmacies. The contract commenced on 1st April 2025 and is set to run until 31st March 2026, with the procurement process having been thoroughly conducted, involving several stages including Pre-Qualification Questionnaires and Invitations to Tender, each adhering to specified evaluation criteria. Key procurement documents were disseminated via the e-procurement portal, Atamis.

This tender provides significant opportunities for businesses, particularly those focusing on healthcare technology and data services. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), given the selective procurement method, have an evident opportunity to engage in this competitive market. Companies that excel in clinical data capture and processing have the potential to greatly benefit from the shared community pharmacy market, assuring financial growth through transactional payments based on system utilisation. The tender's structured engagement and procurement process are advantageous for businesses with robust technical and clinical capabilities, particularly those who have demonstrable experience in the English healthcare sector and can comply with stringent assurance standards.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Point of Care Services to Community Pharmacies 2025-26

Notice Description

Point of Care (PoC) suppliers deliver technical systems that operate in clinical environments to capture patient, vaccination type, and vaccine batch data for each vaccination event undertaken in that health setting. The beneficiaries of the vaccination data captured and flowed by these PoC systems include: NHS-Vaccine Digital Services (VDS), which uses the data to set the Preventative Health strategies, update DPS and the PDS/Spine systems, as well as wider use cases through UKHSE, DHSC and various health research programmes. This procurement sought supplier engagement to a 12-month contract for provision of PoC systems and services for vaccination data captured in Community Pharmacy (CP) settings. A maximum number of 5 contracts would be awarded which would allow awarded suppliers to operate in a competitive and transactional manner, with the available CP market shared between them and payments made based on the actual number of CPs using each respective supplier PoC system in a month. Market engagement was undertaken through an open and anonymous webinar held on 27th June 2024; after which 26 parties registered their interest via the e-procurement portal, Atamis, through which the procurement was run. The market engagement was followed on 27th August 2024 with the release of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQ) and PQQ instructions documents. The PQQ asked interested parties to provide information under business operation, and, clinical and technical system capabilities parameters. Submission of the PQQ responses was required by 17:00 on 30th September; there were 6 responses received to the PQQ phase. PQQ responses were evaluated against numerical and weighted scoring parameters, as defined in the PQQ instructions, for business operation (40% of total), clinical capabilities (20% of total), technical capabilities (40% of total), in order to arrive at a score out of 100% for each respondent. Parties achieving at least the minimum threshold of 70% were qualified to progress to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) phase. The ITT documents, which consisted of Instructions, Technical capabilities, Clinical capabilities, Social Value, Contractual/Commercial and GDPR questionnaires, were published to qualifying suppliers on 16th October 2024; all responses were required for submission by 23:59 on 10th November 2024. Five responding parties progressed through to the ITT phase and in accordance with the ITT evaluation instructions, all parties were then offered a contract. However, one supplier decided not to progress through the contracting phase and exited the market. Therefore, four contracts were awarded to all remaining fully qualified suppliers: EMIS(Optum), Sonar, Cegedim and Positive, to allow for their provision of vaccination data capture systems and services in Community Pharmacy settings, subject to passing clinical, operational and technical assurance standards (as published via the NHS Digital Services Catalogue).

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-b5fd17-fc46ed52-8620-4289-a38b-42ed51c463b0
Publication Source
Contracts Finder
Latest Notice
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/190e647a-d298-4d5d-ad3d-4edd650b0b94
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Planning, Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Selective
Procurement Method Details
Restricted procedure (above threshold)
Tender Suitability
SME
Awardee Scale
Large, SME

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support


CPV Codes

72313000 - Data capture services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
£5,328,000 £1M-£10M
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
25 Apr 20257 months ago
Submission Deadline
10 Nov 2024Expired
Future Notice Date
27 Jun 2024Expired
Award Date
12 Dec 202412 months ago
Contract Period
31 Mar 2025 - 31 Mar 2026 6-12 months
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NHS ENGLAND AND NHS IMPROVEMENT
Contact Name
Victoria Barker-Smith
Contact Email
victoria.barker-smith@nhs.net
Contact Phone
020 7333 6154

Buyer Location

Locality
LONDON
Postcode
SE1 6LH
Post Town
South East London
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLI London
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLI4 Inner London - East
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLI44 Lewisham and Southwark
Delivery Location
TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England)

Local Authority
Southwark
Electoral Ward
St George's
Westminster Constituency
Bermondsey and Old Southwark

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
4
Supplier Names

CEGEDIM DATA SERVICES

EGTON MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS

POSITIVE SOLUTIONS (NORTHERN

SONAR INFORMATICS

Further Information

Notice Documents

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