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title: "Purchase of UpToDate Clinical Decision Support tool"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03d798"
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# Purchase of UpToDate Clinical Decision Support tool

Buyer: BELFAST HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE TRUST  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03d798

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## Summary

The Belfast Health and Social Care Trust has recently completed the procurement process for the Purchase of UpToDate Clinical Decision Support tool. This procurement falls under the goods category and the industry classification is library software package. The contracting process was conducted through a limited procurement method using an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. The contract was awarded to Wolters Kluwer Health, with a contract value of £384,816. The deadline for this tender was on August 1, 2023.

This tender presents an opportunity for businesses specializing in providing clinical decision support tools and library software packages to engage with the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust. As the procurement was awarded without prior publication of a call for competition, this indicates a need for specialised providers in the field. Businesses that offer similar services encompassing depth, breadth, and quality of clinical content will be well-suited to compete in similar future opportunities.

## Notice

Procurement of UpToDate Clinical Decision Support tool

### Procurement Information

There is no reasonable alternative for this procurement, the purchase of UpToDate enhances BHSCT Clinicians ability to provide the best possible care for our patients and ensure equitability for both patients, the clinical workforce and doctors in training. No other resource offers UpToDate's depth and breadth of content, keen clinical nuance and insight, synthesised information, and organised, searchable format. More than 7,300 physicians, internationally recognised as experts in their fields, write UpToDate topics, over 12,000 topics (including text, graphics, and links to more than 495,000 references), 9,700 graded recommendations, 6,500 unique drug monographs and a drug interactions tool, calculators, 2-tiered patient information leaflets and International (including UK) Society Guideline Links (inc NICE & SIGN). UpToDate is unique in the breadth, depth and quality of clinical content to provide clinical teams with trusted evidence based content. UpToDate is a sole source provider of these services as described. 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/022250-2023 |
| 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 |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 1 Aug 2023 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 18 Jun 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 | £384,816 |

## 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 | WOLTERS KLUWER HEALTH |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 48 - Software package and information systems

### Codes

- 48160000 - Library software package

## Release History

- 1 Aug 2023 at 07:41 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/022250-2023
- 19 Jun 2023 at 15:08 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/017384-2023

## Notice URLs

- https://belfasttrust.hscni.net/

## Provenance

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