Notice Information
Notice Title
GP Out of Hours ICT Management, Maintenance and Support
Notice Description
BSO require a managed service to cover management, maintenance, and support of the Regional GP OOH IT Service environment. The system is hosted in the BSO Datacentres and is supported via a managed service with DXC. The services are required to provide continued management maintenance and support of the Regional GP Out Of Hours Clinical information system and the supporting IT services that enables its operation. The Regional GP Out of Hours (GP OOH) Service provides for urgent conditions, a comprehensive, safe and efficient Out of Hours Service to the Northern Ireland population, who are also entitled to General Medical Services (GMS) until the patients own GP surgery is next open.
Lot Information
Lot 1
BSO require a managed service to cover management, maintenance, and support of the Regional GP OOH IT Service environment. The system is hosted in the BSO Datacentres and is supported via a managed service with DXC. The services are required to provide continued management maintenance and support of the Regional GP Out Of Hours Clinical information system and the supporting IT services that enables its operation. The Regional GP Out of Hours (GP OOH) Service provides for urgent conditions, a comprehensive, safe and efficient Out of Hours Service to the Northern Ireland population, who are also entitled to General Medical Services (GMS) until the patients own GP surgery is next open. DXC as the managed service provider provide critical services ensuring the continued operation and support of the GP Out of Hours IT System. The services DXC provide are listed above. Their experience in supporting this complex technical environment has been built up over the past twelve years. They have implemented their proprietary Platform X management tool into the infrastructure to streamline software maintenance and upgrades within the IT environment. The managed service provides contractual, reporting, and performance management of Advanced as a subcontractor. Advanced provide the software (Adastra and Odyssey) that the GP OOH service depends on to provide the Clinical System solution. The software is licensed for use by BSO via a contract with DXC. This relationship has also been in place for over 12 years. Moving to an alternative provider incorporating all of the required managed services provided by DXC is not possible in the available timeframe. Transferring the technical support services, experience, and expertise that DXC provide to another supplier without an appropriate knowledge and skills transfer process would be extremely high risk to the continued operation of the GP Out of Hours service and could not be done safely within the time currently available. We estimate it would take at least six months to safely transfer the support of these services to another provider and this would require both DXC as the current provider and the new provider to be involved jointly in the hand over process. Failure of the OOH service means that patients, by default, will attend the already overburdened Emergency Departments.
Procurement Information
* Due to the existing DXC relationship with Advanced, the design, and support of the GP OOH system. BSO could not simply contract directly with Advanced as Advanced do not offer the required support services etc. (rather they offer only the licences to use the required software etc.) * Moving to an alternative solution will require extensive development and configuration to meet the requirements of the GP OOH service in NI. * We estimate it would take between three and six months to safely transfer the support of these services to another provider if one were available. * DXC provide significant technical services to support the OOH service as part of the TPA contract. They manage the technical environment on which the solution is hosted providing technical support for Citrix, the SQL database, platform X, and the end user client device support. They also provide contract and performance management support to the existing solution. The solution will not function without the continuation of the technical and other services provided by DXC in conjunction with the licences and software from Advanced.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-03a475
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005686-2023
- 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
- £1,775,420 £1M-£10M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 27 Feb 20232 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 8 Feb 20233 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
- BUSINESS SERVICES ORGANISATION I T S
- Contact Name
- Catherine Fegan
- Contact Email
- cathy.fegan@hscni.net
- Contact Phone
- +44 2895362561
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BELFAST
- Postcode
- BT7 2JD
- Post Town
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- Northern Ireland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLN Northern Ireland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLN0 Northern Ireland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLN06 Belfast
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Belfast
- Electoral Ward
- Central
- Westminster Constituency
- Belfast South and Mid Down
Further Information
Notice URLs
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
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