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title: "Point of Care Services to Community Pharmacies 2025-26"
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# Point of Care Services to Community Pharmacies 2025-26

Buyer: NHS ENGLAND AND NHS IMPROVEMENT  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-fc46ed52-8620-4289-a38b-42ed51c463b0

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## Summary

NHS England and NHS Improvement have completed the procurement process for the "Point of Care Services to Community Pharmacies 2025-26" contract, focusing on data capture services within clinical settings across England. The procurement, classified under the CPV code 72313000, operated under a restricted procedure above threshold, involving selective procurement measures. The procurement reached the award stage, with contracts being awarded to four suppliers: EMIS(Optum), Sonar, Cegedim, and Positive, enabling these organisations to deliver Point of Care systems in community pharmacies. The contract commenced on 1st April 2025 and is set to run until 31st March 2026, with the procurement process having been thoroughly conducted, involving several stages including Pre-Qualification Questionnaires and Invitations to Tender, each adhering to specified evaluation criteria. Key procurement documents were disseminated via the e-procurement portal, Atamis.

This tender provides significant opportunities for businesses, particularly those focusing on healthcare technology and data services. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), given the selective procurement method, have an evident opportunity to engage in this competitive market. Companies that excel in clinical data capture and processing have the potential to greatly benefit from the shared community pharmacy market, assuring financial growth through transactional payments based on system utilisation. The tender's structured engagement and procurement process are advantageous for businesses with robust technical and clinical capabilities, particularly those who have demonstrable experience in the English healthcare sector and can comply with stringent assurance standards.

## Notice

Point of Care (PoC) suppliers deliver technical systems that operate in clinical environments to capture patient, vaccination type, and vaccine batch data for each vaccination event undertaken in that health setting. The beneficiaries of the vaccination data captured and flowed by these PoC systems include: NHS-Vaccine Digital Services (VDS), which uses the data to set the Preventative Health strategies, update DPS and the PDS/Spine systems, as well as wider use cases through UKHSE, DHSC and various health research programmes. This procurement sought supplier engagement to a 12-month contract for provision of PoC systems and services for vaccination data captured in Community Pharmacy (CP) settings. A maximum number of 5 contracts would be awarded which would allow awarded suppliers to operate in a competitive and transactional manner, with the available CP market shared between them and payments made based on the actual number of CPs using each respective supplier PoC system in a month. Market engagement was undertaken through an open and anonymous webinar held on 27th June 2024; after which 26 parties registered their interest via the e-procurement portal, Atamis, through which the procurement was run. The market engagement was followed on 27th August 2024 with the release of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQ) and PQQ instructions documents. The PQQ asked interested parties to provide information under business operation, and, clinical and technical system capabilities parameters. Submission of the PQQ responses was required by 17:00 on 30th September; there were 6 responses received to the PQQ phase. PQQ responses were evaluated against numerical and weighted scoring parameters, as defined in the PQQ instructions, for business operation (40% of total), clinical capabilities (20% of total), technical capabilities (40% of total), in order to arrive at a score out of 100% for each respondent. Parties achieving at least the minimum threshold of 70% were qualified to progress to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) phase. The ITT documents, which consisted of Instructions, Technical capabilities, Clinical capabilities, Social Value, Contractual/Commercial and GDPR questionnaires, were published to qualifying suppliers on 16th October 2024; all responses were required for submission by 23:59 on 10th November 2024. Five responding parties progressed through to the ITT phase and in accordance with the ITT evaluation instructions, all parties were then offered a contract. However, one supplier decided not to progress through the contracting phase and exited the market. Therefore, four contracts were awarded to all remaining fully qualified suppliers: EMIS(Optum), Sonar, Cegedim and Positive, to allow for their provision of vaccination data capture systems and services in Community Pharmacy settings, subject to passing clinical, operational and technical assurance standards (as published via the NHS Digital Services Catalogue).

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/190e647a-d298-4d5d-ad3d-4edd650b0b94 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Selective |
| Procurement method details | Restricted procedure (above threshold) |
| Tender suitability | SME |
| Awardee scale | Large, SME |
| All stages | Planning, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 25 Apr 2025 |
| Submission deadline | 10 Nov 2024 |
| Future notice date | 27 Jun 2024 |
| Award date | 12 Dec 2024 |
| Contract period | 31 Mar 2025 - 31 Mar 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £5,328,000 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS ENGLAND AND NHS IMPROVEMENT |
| Locality | LONDON |
| Post town | South East London |
| Postcode | SE1 6LH |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLI London |
| ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East |
| ITL 3 | TLI44 Lewisham and Southwark |
| Local authority | Southwark |
| Electoral ward | St George's |
| Westminster constituency | Bermondsey and Old Southwark |
| Delivery location | TLC North East (England), TLD North West (England), TLF East Midlands (England), TLG West Midlands (England), TLH East (England), TLJ South East (England), TLK South West (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 4 |
| Supplier names | CEGEDIM DATA SERVICES; EGTON MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; POSITIVE SOLUTIONS (NORTHERN; SONAR INFORMATICS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 72313000 - Data capture services

## Release History

- 25 Apr 2025 at 12:52 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/190e647a-d298-4d5d-ad3d-4edd650b0b94
- 17 Jul 2024 at 15:33 - Planning - Planned Procurement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c12752fa-3f0d-49d7-8551-7e0c10bd3d8b
- 21 Jun 2024 at 17:30 - Planning - Planned Procurement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c12752fa-3f0d-49d7-8551-7e0c10bd3d8b
- 21 Jun 2024 at 17:10 - Planning - Planned Procurement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c12752fa-3f0d-49d7-8551-7e0c10bd3d8b
- 19 Jun 2024 at 13:04 - Planning - Planned Procurement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c12752fa-3f0d-49d7-8551-7e0c10bd3d8b

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/190e647a-d298-4d5d-ad3d-4edd650b0b94
  25th April 2025 - Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/c12752fa-3f0d-49d7-8551-7e0c10bd3d8b
  17th July 2024 - Future opportunity notice on Contracts Finder
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/299c0a31-ce55-4f22-90c5-5ed79996803f
  Join us Thursday 27 June at 3pm for a briefing on the intention and scope of the upcoming procurement of Point of Care services to the Community Pharmacy market (which will commence 12 July 2024). MS Teams meeting details are below & in attachment Join by copying the WHOLE hyperlink below to your bowser: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MDM2NWY4MjEtZWIyYi00ZDVlLWJlYTYtOTFkZDA1MTRmNzJm@thread.v2/0?context={"Tid":"37c354b2-85b0-47f5-b222-07b48d774ee3","Oid":"11a2a192-093f-4045-b294-9da7aa150259"} Meeting ID: 347 952 425 58 Passcode: QLKV3M or Dial in: 020 3321 5208 Conference ID: 914 499 005#
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/9a12ed4e-567c-4eca-9a9c-0f0a729f19a4
  Details of Market Engagement ahead of Procurement commencement
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/f7b66bff-25a7-41d6-8690-8a8393a0a881
  Presentation made by buyer at the market engagement session of 27th June 2024
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/381c3cb3-5710-4020-8741-47c61e7d4dab
  The contract was awarded as standard and non-negotiable, therefore all suppliers are operating on the same terms. These contracts intend suppliers to operate in a competitive and transactional manner, with the available CP market shared between all awarded suppliers and payment made based on the actual number of CPs using each respective supplier PoC system in a month.

## Notice URLs

- https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19:meeting_MDM2NWY4MjEtZWIyYi00ZDVlLWJlYTYtOTFkZDA1MTRmNzJm@thread.v2/0?context=

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