Planning

NICE Guidance Production Digitalisation Project

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE

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Planning

10 Jan 2024 at 14:32

Summary of the contracting process

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is planning the NICE Guidance Production Digitalisation Project, a procurement initiative in the IT services category, aimed at digitising and automating end-to-end data flows for healthcare guidance production and dissemination. Suppliers are invited to deliver solutions for evidence scanning, content management, and publication processes. The planned tender involves a £7,000,000 contract value and is currently in the planning stage. The Supplier Information Session is scheduled for 1st February 2024, with registration deadline set for 30th January 2024.

The NICE Guidance Production Digitalisation Project offers opportunities for IT service providers with expertise in consulting, software development, and internet services. Potential suppliers are expected to adhere to interoperability standards, such as CDS Hooks and FHIR, while supporting NICE's digitalisation efforts. This tender initiative not only focuses on creating efficiencies in data management processes but also aims to enhance the discoverability and usability of healthcare guidance for professionals in the sector, creating avenues for business growth within the services category.

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Notice Title

NICE Guidance Production Digitalisation Project

Notice Description

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) seeks to commission external solutions and services to support the creation and maintenance of its flagship health and social care guidance products from financial year 24/25 for a period of five years in the first instance. More information on NICE's programmes can be found at http://www.nice.org.uk. These services and solutions support NICE's five-year strategy through the delivery of useful and usable guideline recommendations for health and social care professionals. The supplied services and solutions will span the entire workflow: the prioritisation of relevant healthcare topics for guidance production, the gathering and management of evidence, the creation and maintenance of healthcare guidance on the NICE website, and the dissemination and publication of NICE guidance to end-users and third parties. Some of the benefits expected from an end-to-end solution are as follows: * Digitisation/digitalisation of end-to-end data flows * Simplification and automation of workflow processes * Measurable, standardised and interoperable information for distribution to end-users and integration into third-party systems such as Electronic Patient Records platforms and decision support tools (see figure 1) * Fidelity of information so it is current and quantifiable * Improved discoverability through a more granular presentation of the content, which will improve adoption and take-up of guidance In terms of NICE these would be some of the expected benefits for the organisation: * an audit trail of decisions made throughout the workflow process including the ability to assign unique identifiers to recommendations * enhanced product capabilities enabling NICE to disseminate targeted knowledge products to individual audiences through the reuse of content components * automation to support labour-intensive processes, for example for the surveillance of evidence, the creation of guidelines, and managing mainly unstructured and semi-structured data using various external and internal datapoints It is expected that vendors will adhere to interoperability standards such as CDS Hooks and FHIR and prevalent data and information standards. NICE's guidance and advice can be used by the NHS, local authorities, employers, voluntary groups and anyone else involved in delivering care or promoting wellbeing. Documents describing the methods and processes employed by NICE in developing its guidance are available from NICE's website (www.nice.org.uk) This link explains how NICE develops guidelines: https://www.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/our-programmes/nice-guidance/nice-guidelines/how-we-develop-nice-guidelines

Lot Information

Lot 1

The supplier is asked to deliver solutions for the following key workflow processes and activities: * evidence scanning and evaluation (surveillance) through plug-in of different data points, evidence synthesis and evidence summaries * creation and management of content components assembled into knowledge products, appropriately tagged with metadata * creation and maintenance of ontologies * publication and dissemination of content and data products including digitised patient care pathways for clinical decision support. We are happy for the above to be delivered by one or multiple solution vendors but must have one single supplier/solution integrator to take delivery lead.

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
ocds-h6vhtk-042c11
Publication Source
Find A Tender Service
Latest Notice
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/000816-2024
Current Stage
Planning
All Stages
Planning

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Planning Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Not Specified
Procurement Method Details
Not specified
Tender Suitability
Not specified
Awardee Scale
Not specified

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
£7,000,000 £1M-£10M
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
10 Jan 20242 years ago
Submission Deadline
23 Mar 2024Expired
Future Notice Date
19 Feb 2024Expired
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
Not specified - Not specified
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Planned
Lots Status
Planned
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE
Contact Name
Barney Wilkinson
Contact Email
barney.wilkinson@nice.org.uk
Contact Phone
+44 2070452023

Buyer Location

Locality
MANCHESTER
Postcode
M1 4BT
Post Town
Manchester
Country
England

Major Region (ITL 1)
TLD North West (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLD3 Greater Manchester
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLD33 Manchester
Delivery Location
Not specified

Local Authority
Manchester
Electoral Ward
Deansgate
Westminster Constituency
Manchester Central

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