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Digital Test Platform - Service Continuity, Transition and Exit Contract

NHS Digital

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26 Oct 2021 at 14:34

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Summary of the contracting process

NHS Digital has awarded a contract titled "Digital Test Platform – Service Continuity, Transition and Exit Contract" to Deloitte LLP for £56,500,000. This contract falls under the IT services industry, specifically for consulting and software development. The procurement method employed was limited, allowing for direct engagement without a competitive call, justified by the technical necessity of continuity during the testing programme for COVID-19. The contract was signed on 26 October 2021 and includes options for extension. Services will be delivered remotely from Leeds, with a focus on disaggregating existing solutions to ensure independent services can transition smoothly to future providers.

This procurement presents significant opportunities for businesses specialising in IT services, digital platform development, and cloud infrastructure management. Companies capable of providing technical solutions for disaggregating existing services or those with expertise in cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or similar services are well-positioned to compete in future procurement processes stemming from this contract. As NHS Digital continues to refine its services and explore new suppliers, this represents a critical moment for growth for businesses prepared to support the digital and data journey in public healthcare.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Digital Test Platform - Service Continuity, Transition and Exit Contract

Notice Description

Contract with Deloitte LLP for the provision of digital solution design, build and live service of a digital platform, ordering portals and mobile applications to support the Covid-19 National Test Service together with transition and exit activities. The services provided under this contract support the digital and data journey for COVID-19 testing, currently amounting to millions of tests each week, and have introduced new capabilities as the testing programme has evolved to support the pandemic response. This contract also includes the provision of services to disaggregate the solution provided by Deloitte, removing interdependencies and facilitating the formation of independent services capable of transition to replacement suppliers.

Lot Information

Lot 1

Please see the description provided at section II.1.4. The estimated contract value is PS56,500,00

Options: The contract has an initial period expiring on 31 March 20212 and includes an option to extend the contract for periods of one month each, up to a maximum of 6 months in total by way of variation.

Procurement Information

NHS Digital is satisfied the tests permitting use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication (Regulation 32(2)(b(ii)) are met:A. The works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic operator as competition is absent for technical reasons: The digital platform has been developed with a technical architecture to interoperate with the other suppliers of testing services, and a transition away from this platform whilst there is still a significant level of change to the nature of the services risks disrupting the continuity of services. Deloitte has begun to carry out work to disaggregate the services, which as each element completes allows NHS Digital to undertake phased re-procurement activity of separate elements of the service. This work will later expand into the provision of exit and transition activities to facilitate the orderly transition to the replacement supplier(s). On the basis that this disaggregation work needs to complete prior to re-procurement, competition is absent for technical reasons as there is no alternative operator who can provide the business as usual services without interruption, whilst also providing services to allow for disaggregation and to facilitate re-procurement.B. No reasonable alternative or substitute exists: A change in contractor for the provision of the digital platform would cause significant duplication of costs as any replacement provider would have to dedicate substantial resource to establishing and understanding the detailed design and operation of the platform and how it interoperates with other service providers. Further, as well as incurring the costs involved in ensuring the transition of data from the current supplier to the new provider, transition to a new supplier could put the operation of the digital testing platform at risk of disruption or force change freezes which would cause significant inconvenience, not only to NHS Digital, but to the wider public on the end to end testing journey. This could have serious implications to public health and the containment of the spread of the virus.C. The absence of competition is not the result of an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement: this procurement is part of a procurement strategy by NHS Digital to disaggregate the services, removing interdependencies and allowing for the formation of independent services capable of transition to replacement suppliers thus allowing the competition of services through ongoing openly advertised procurement processes.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-02f00d
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/026784-2021
Current Stage
Award
All Stages
Award

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Award Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Limited
Procurement Method Details
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Large

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

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

CPV Codes

72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
£56,500,000 £10M-£100M

Notice Dates

Publication Date
26 Oct 20214 years ago
Submission Deadline
Not specified
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
26 Oct 20214 years ago
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Complete
Lots Status
Cancelled
Awards Status
Active
Contracts Status
Active

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NHS Digital
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
LEEDS
Postcode
LS1 4AP
Postcode Area
Leeds
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLE Yorkshire and The Humber
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLE4 West Yorkshire
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLE42 Leeds
Delivery Location
TLE42 Leeds
Local Authority
Leeds
Electoral Ward
Hunslet & Riverside
Westminster Constituency
Leeds South

Supplier Information

Number of Suppliers
1
Supplier Name

Deloitte LLP

Further Information

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