--- title: "NICE Guidance Production Digitalisation Project" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-042c11" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-042c11" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-042c11.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-042c11.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE" published: "2024-01-10" --- # NICE Guidance Production Digitalisation Project Buyer: NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-042c11 [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-042c11) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-042c11.json) ## Summary The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) is planning the NICE Guidance Production Digitalisation Project, a procurement initiative in the IT services category, aimed at digitising and automating end-to-end data flows for healthcare guidance production and dissemination. Suppliers are invited to deliver solutions for evidence scanning, content management, and publication processes. The planned tender involves a £7,000,000 contract value and is currently in the planning stage. The Supplier Information Session is scheduled for 1st February 2024, with registration deadline set for 30th January 2024. The NICE Guidance Production Digitalisation Project offers opportunities for IT service providers with expertise in consulting, software development, and internet services. Potential suppliers are expected to adhere to interoperability standards, such as CDS Hooks and FHIR, while supporting NICE's digitalisation efforts. This tender initiative not only focuses on creating efficiencies in data management processes but also aims to enhance the discoverability and usability of healthcare guidance for professionals in the sector, creating avenues for business growth within the services category. ## Notice The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) seeks to commission external solutions and services to support the creation and maintenance of its flagship health and social care guidance products from financial year 24/25 for a period of five years in the first instance. More information on NICE's programmes can be found at http://www.nice.org.uk. These services and solutions support NICE's five-year strategy through the delivery of useful and usable guideline recommendations for health and social care professionals. The supplied services and solutions will span the entire workflow: the prioritisation of relevant healthcare topics for guidance production, the gathering and management of evidence, the creation and maintenance of healthcare guidance on the NICE website, and the dissemination and publication of NICE guidance to end-users and third parties. Some of the benefits expected from an end-to-end solution are as follows: * Digitisation/digitalisation of end-to-end data flows * Simplification and automation of workflow processes * Measurable, standardised and interoperable information for distribution to end-users and integration into third-party systems such as Electronic Patient Records platforms and decision support tools (see figure 1) * Fidelity of information so it is current and quantifiable * Improved discoverability through a more granular presentation of the content, which will improve adoption and take-up of guidance In terms of NICE these would be some of the expected benefits for the organisation: * an audit trail of decisions made throughout the workflow process including the ability to assign unique identifiers to recommendations * enhanced product capabilities enabling NICE to disseminate targeted knowledge products to individual audiences through the reuse of content components * automation to support labour-intensive processes, for example for the surveillance of evidence, the creation of guidelines, and managing mainly unstructured and semi-structured data using various external and internal datapoints It is expected that vendors will adhere to interoperability standards such as CDS Hooks and FHIR and prevalent data and information standards. NICE's guidance and advice can be used by the NHS, local authorities, employers, voluntary groups and anyone else involved in delivering care or promoting wellbeing. Documents describing the methods and processes employed by NICE in developing its guidance are available from NICE's website (www.nice.org.uk) This link explains how NICE develops guidelines: https://www.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/our-programmes/nice-guidance/nice-guidelines/how-we-develop-nice-guidelines ### Lot Information Lot 1 The supplier is asked to deliver solutions for the following key workflow processes and activities: * evidence scanning and evaluation (surveillance) through plug-in of different data points, evidence synthesis and evidence summaries * creation and management of content components assembled into knowledge products, appropriately tagged with metadata * creation and maintenance of ontologies * publication and dissemination of content and data products including digitised patient care pathways for clinical decision support. We are happy for the above to be delivered by one or multiple solution vendors but must have one single supplier/solution integrator to take delivery lead. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/000816-2024 | | Notice type | Planning Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 10 Jan 2024 | | Submission deadline | 23 Mar 2024 | | Future notice date | 19 Feb 2024 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £7,000,000 | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH AND CARE EXCELLENCE | | Locality | MANCHESTER | | Post town | Manchester | | Postcode | M1 4BT | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLD North West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLD3 Greater Manchester | | ITL 3 | TLD33 Manchester | | Local authority | Manchester | | Electoral ward | Deansgate | | Westminster constituency | Manchester Central | | Delivery location | Not specified | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 72 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ### Codes - 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support ## Release History - 10 Jan 2024 at 14:32 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/000816-2024 ## Notice URLs - http://www.nice.org.uk - https://nice.org.uk - https://www.nice.org.uk/about/what-we-do/our-programmes/nice-guidance/nice-guidelines/how-we-develop-nice-guidelines ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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