Notice Information
Notice Title
OMNICHANEL
Notice Description
This contract provides an integrated, cloud-based communication platform for the Wales Medicines Advice Service (WMAS), enhancing accessibility, efficiency, and collaboration across NHS Wales. The solution unifies multiple communication routes, including telephone email, SMS, WhatsApp, social media and chatbot/web assist, within a single system, supports mobile, tablet, and desktop use, and ensures NHS compliant secure data hosting. It offers integration with Consultant Connect and the Welsh Clinical Portal, real-time reporting and analytics for monitoring performance, and robust business continuity arrangements including failover testing and dedicated support.
Lot Information
Lot 1
This contract provides an integrated, cloud-based communication platform for the Wales Medicines Advice Service (WMAS), enhancing accessibility, efficiency, and collaboration across NHS Wales. The solution unifies multiple communication routes, including telephone email, SMS, WhatsApp, social media and chatbot/web assist, within a single system, supports mobile, tablet, and desktop use, and ensures NHS compliant secure data hosting. It offers integration with Consultant Connect and the Welsh Clinical Portal, real-time reporting and analytics for monitoring performance, and robust business continuity arrangements including failover testing and dedicated support
Procurement Information
A direct award via a transparency notice was justified as the most compliant and efficient route to secure continuity of the WMAS omnichannel communication platform, as the required solution was already available through an established framework containing pre-qualified suppliers that had undergone rigorous assessment of technical capability, financial standing, security, and information-governance compliance; the chosen supplier demonstrably met the exact service specification, integrated with existing NHS Wales digital infrastructure, and offered a fully mature, market-ready product, making further competition unnecessary and disproportionate. Using a transparency notice ensured compliance with procurement regulations by openly declaring the intention to award, maintained full auditability and accountability, and enabled WMAS to avoid service disruption, minimise administrative burden, and deliver improved value and functionality at reduced cost compared with the previous arrangement.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-0660d3
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018922-2026
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Goods
- 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
48 - Software package and information systems
-
- CPV Codes
48000000 - Software package and information systems
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £30,402 Under £100K
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 3 Mar 20261 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 6 Jan 20263 months 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
- CARDIFF AND VALE UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD
- Contact Name
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Email
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
- Contact Phone
- Available with D3 Tenders Premium →
Buyer Location
- Locality
- CARDIFF
- Postcode
- CF14 4HH
- Post Town
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLL Wales
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLL5 South East Wales
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLL52 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
- Delivery Location
- TLL22 Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan
-
- Local Authority
- Cardiff
- Electoral Ward
- Heath
- Westminster Constituency
- Cardiff North
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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