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title: "Digital Capability for Health"
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published: "2024-10-15"
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# Digital Capability for Health

Buyer: THE MINISTER FOR THE CABINET OFFICE ACTING THROUGH CROWN COMMERCIAL SERVICE  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-02928e

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## Summary

The procurement process titled "Digital Capability for Health" is overseen by The Minister for the Cabinet Office acting through Crown Commercial Service (CCS). The initiative falls under the IT services category, specifically consulting, software development, Internet, and support. The procurement primarily targets the UK's health sector, with NHS Digital and other public sector health and social care bodies being the main users. The procurement is currently in the award stage, with key dates including the contract signing on 5th January 2021. The framework, identified as RM6221, spans over a period of 1,620 days and has recently been amended to extend by six months, now expiring on 17th July 2025, due to unforeseen circumstances necessitating the extension for project approvals.

This tender encompasses a range of services that present substantial opportunities for businesses to grow within the UK health and social care sector. Businesses specialising in DevOps services, digital definition services, build and transition services, end-to-end development services, and data management can benefit from this opportunity. The procurement method is an open procedure, ensuring a competitive environment. The framework encourages suppliers to invest in understanding NHS Digital's specific requirements, fostering strategic relationships and continuous improvement through agile methodologies. Companies equipped to develop innovative digital solutions and capable of handling data migration, analysis, and reporting will find this framework particularly suited to their strengths.

## Notice

Crown Commercial Service (CCS) as the Authority put in place a Collaborative Agreement for use by NHS Digital and other public sector health and social care bodies for the provision of digital outcomes and supporting services. The scope of the Agreement covers the following: DevOps Services Digital Definition Services Build and Transition Services End-to-End Development Services Data Management (and Similar) Services

### Lot Information

Lot 1

Crown Commercial Service, as the Authority, has put in place an agreement for the provision of Digital Capability for Health for use by NHS Digital and other public sector health and social care bodies for the provision of digital outcomes and supporting services. The agreement was developed with NHS Digital as the Operator, who requires digital capability to meet specific needs of the health and social care sector. NHS Digital requires suppliers to invest in understanding their specific organisational needs and to bespoke delivery of their services to meet requirements. This framework has 12 suppliers with whom NHS Digital will develop strategic relationships over a period of time, to warrant up-front investment in framework level supplier agnostic competition, whilst maintaining effective and efficient competition at call-off. Building of closer strategic relationships will encourage the suppliers to improve and innovate on their delivery of services. This will be achieved through ongoing collaborative partnership or supplier relationship management activities based on feedback from call-off contracts and MI reports. Suppliers under the framework are required to provide the following Service Provisions: DevOps Services - support for ongoing live services Digital Definition Services - either separately or combined Extended Discovery and /or Alpha phases. Build and Transition Services - either separately combining Beta phase and/or Retirement phases (including transition to Live). It is anticipated that Live will be covered by an appropriate competition for DevOps Services. End-to-End Development Services - with the ability to combine the full set of agile phases of Discovery through to Live. Data Management (and Similar) Services - primarily targeted at building, enhancing and maintaining data assets, migrating data from one system to another and analysis and reporting from such data assets. Call-off competitions under this framework will follow NHS Digital's standard governance processes for their requirements. There is no direct award call-off in this agreement. Typical digital development will follow Government Digital Service (GDS) life cycle: discovery, alpha, beta and so on, outlined in the government service design manual (https://www.gov.uk/service-manual). Suppliers will deliver work using GDS agile methodologies. The framework will address the evolving technical 'stacks' associated within the different pillars of NHS Digital, including: Platforms and infrastructure Product development Data services

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/033182-2024 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Framework |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large, SME |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 15 Oct 2024 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 5 Jan 2021 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £800,000,000 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Cancelled |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | THE MINISTER FOR THE CABINET OFFICE ACTING THROUGH CROWN COMMERCIAL SERVICE |
| Locality | LIVERPOOL |
| Post town | Liverpool |
| Postcode | L3 9PP |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLD North West (England) |
| ITL 2 | TLD7 Merseyside |
| ITL 3 | TLD72 Liverpool |
| Local authority | Liverpool |
| Electoral ward | City Centre North |
| Westminster constituency | Liverpool Riverside |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 14 |
| Supplier names | ACCENTURE (UK; AIRE LOGIC; BJSS; CAPITA BUSINESS SERVICES LIMITED (CBSL; COGNIZANT WORLDWIDE; HIPPO DIGITAL; IBM UNITED KINGDOM; INFINITY WORKS CONSULTING; INFORMED SOLUTIONS; KAINOS SOFTWARE; MASTEK; NETCOMPANY; SEE CONTRACTS FINDER NOTICE FOR FULL SUPPLIER LIST; THE MINISTER FOR THE CABINET OFFICE ACTING THROUGH CROWN COMMERCIAL SERVICE (CCS |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

- 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

## Release History

- 15 Oct 2024 at 14:34 - AwardUpdate - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/033182-2024
- 11 Feb 2021 at 22:56 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/002855-2021

## Notice URLs

- https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:395359-2020:TEXT:EN:HTML
- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/a9899b08-d48d-46e1-89fa-09886c9c311f
- https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk
- https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/government-security-classifications
- https://www.gov.uk/service-manual

## Provenance

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