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title: "Essential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-0397e1"
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# Essential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight

Buyer: BELFAST HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-0397e1

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## Summary

The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust conducted a procurement process for the upgrade of the Essential Medisoft to Medisight. The procurement stage was an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. The contract was awarded to Medisoft Limited. The procurement is related to IT services under the 'services' main procurement category. The location of the procurement is at the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust in the United Kingdom. The award for the contract was signed on 3rd February 2023, with a total value of 105,000 GBP.

This procurement opportunity presents a promising chance for IT service providers specializing in consulting, software development, and Internet support to engage with the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. Businesses with expertise in healthcare technology and software solutions may find this tender suitable for their capabilities. The procurement method, being limited and without prior publication, highlights the exclusive nature of the services required, offering a unique opportunity for a specific economic operator to provide essential services.

## Notice

Essential Medisoft upgrade to Medisight, transitional arrangement

### Procurement Information

Health and Social Care Northern Ireland (HSCNI) is currently working on the implementation of encompass, an Electronic Health and Care Record (EHCR) that will underpin the service transformation and healthcare needs of the population of Northern Ireland. Encompass will replace multiple aging HSC Trust systems and numerous paper records and manual workflows and the EHCR will deliver significant core functionality across the acute, community and primary care Out of Hours sectors. The contract for the provision of the EHCR solution was awarded to Epic in May 2020. No other reasonable alternative exists for this procurement, this Ophthalmology electronic records system is essential to patient care and service delivery. Medisoft Limited are the sole supplier of this System and have exclusive rights over the software, licences and updates for this system. The functionality of this system is within the core scope of the Encompass procurement. This contract is required to cover the transitional period and a replacement in the short-term is not a reasonable alternative as it would require extensive ICT infrastructure, validation and integration work that would result in significant disruption and lead to disproportionate technical difficulties that would impact on the Trusts ability to provide a an Ophthalmology service. The wider market was consulted when Encompass was procured. The absence of competition is not a result of the artificial narrowing of the parameters of the procurement

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003594-2023 |
| Notice type | Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Limited |
| Procurement method details | Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 6 Feb 2023 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 16 Jan 2023 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £105,000 |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | BELFAST HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST |
| Locality | BELFAST |
| Post town | Northern Ireland |
| Postcode | BT9 7AB |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| ITL 1 | TLN Northern Ireland |
| ITL 2 | TLN0 Northern Ireland |
| ITL 3 | TLN06 Belfast |
| Local authority | Belfast |
| Electoral ward | Blackstaff |
| Westminster constituency | Belfast South and Mid Down |
| Delivery location | TLN Northern Ireland |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | MEDISOFT |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

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

## Release History

- 6 Feb 2023 at 14:43 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003594-2023
- 16 Jan 2023 at 15:21 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001299-2023

## Notice URLs

- https://belfasttrust.hscni.net/
- https://www.medisoft.co.uk/

## Provenance

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