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This software is provided to the OOH services of NHS Orkney, NHS Shetland, and NHS Western Isles under NHS Highland's contract and NSS contracts on behalf of Police Custody. NHS 24 contracts for concentrators that are messaging servers between NHS 24 and the Board Adastra instances and do not require a database. The twelve Adastra databases will be moved into a single database instance. This allows upgrades and fixes to be delivered for all more easily and provides cost avoidance savings over the five years of the proposed new contract.", "lots": [ { "id": "1", "description": "There is no known alternative software product available on the market and absolutely none that integrate with current GP IT Systems, NHS 24, Emergency Care Summary, and other digital systems this software is required to integrate with in Scotland. This new contract provides continuity of services for vital out of hours services under one national contract. Therefore, NSS has negotiated a new five year contract with the incumbent supplier according to regulation 33 of The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015. 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