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title: "EPES, CFU and Ophthalmic applications Support, Upgrade and hardware Refresh"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-04e93c"
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published: "2025-03-04"
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# EPES, CFU and Ophthalmic applications Support, Upgrade and hardware Refresh

Buyer: BUSINESS SERVICES ORGANISATION  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04e93c

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## Summary

The Business Services Organisation in Belfast has concluded a direct procurement process for the support, upgrade, and hardware refresh of its Electronic Prescribing and Eligibility System (EPES), CFU, and Ophthalmic applications. The contract, valued at approximately £5,500,000, was awarded to ENTSSERV UK LIMITED (DXC Technology) on 4th March 2025, with the contract period starting on 1st April 2025 and ending on 31st December 2026, extendable up to 31st December 2030. This initiative falls under the services category for IT services, including consulting, software development, and support, with work being carried out primarily in the United Kingdom.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses involved in IT services and systems support, especially those specialising in healthcare applications. With a substantial budget allocated for upgrading and maintaining critical healthcare IT infrastructure, companies with expertise in system integration, project management, and support services could find valuable growth opportunities. Furthermore, businesses capable of providing similar specialised IT services might consider positioning themselves for future public contracts given the extensive scope and high stakes associated with maintaining national healthcare IT systems.

## Notice

In June 2008, the Electronic Prescribing and Eligibility System (EPES) went live. The objective of the project was to capture prescription information from Community Pharmacies into a central EPES Database. This system was introduced to speed up pharmacy re-payments, allow for closer scrutiny of the prescribing and dispensing process, and reduce lost income through patients falsely claiming to be in receipt of a qualifying Social Security benefit. Following its successful launch, EPES was extended to support Dental and Ophthalmic claims processing, the DOP system. This DAC will ensure continuity of services for the Family Practitioner System Team. Failure to provision the extended support places BSO at serious risk of an application failure from which we would be unable to recover from. Contractor payments of approximately PS576m per annum would be defaulted on and there would also be a risk of fraud as it would be impossible to process prescriptions and estimate payments manually. DXC Technology will support the EPES systems for BSO. The scope of this Contract includes: * Planning and project management. * Procurement and support of 8 new workstations and scanners. * Assistance from DXC and Kodak Alaris to setup new workstations with the Kodak Alaris Kodak Info Input scanning software. * Health checks. * Perform renewal of the existing labor support contract. * Extension of Kodak support contract * Recompile of code to make it supportable. * Upgrade to Windows 11. PS1,080,186 has been previously directed awarded to DXC for support, maintenance, and upgrade works to support the EPES system. It is our intention to complete a further Direct Award to the value of PS5,500,000.

### Procurement Information

DXC are the incumbent contractors and own the Intellectual Property Rights on the software. Failure to provision the extended support places BSO at serious risk of an application failure from which we would be unable to recover from. Contractor payments of approximately PS576m per annum would be defaulted on and there would also be a risk of fraud as it would be impossible to process prescriptions and estimate payments manually.

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007831-2025 |
| Notice type | UK6 - Contract Award Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Direct |
| Procurement method details | Direct award |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Large |
| All stages | Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 4 Mar 2025 |
| Submission deadline | Not specified |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 4 Mar 2025 |
| Contract period | 31 Mar 2025 - 31 Dec 2026 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | £6,580,186 |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

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

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | BUSINESS SERVICES ORGANISATION |
| Locality | BELFAST |
| Post town | Northern Ireland |
| Postcode | BT2 8DQ |
| Country | Northern Ireland |
| ITL 1 | TLN Northern Ireland |
| ITL 2 | TLN0 Northern Ireland |
| ITL 3 | TLN06 Belfast |
| Local authority | Belfast |
| Electoral ward | Central |
| Westminster constituency | Belfast South and Mid Down |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## Supplier

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

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

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

### Codes

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

## Release History

- 4 Mar 2025 at 12:18 - Award - UK6 - Contract Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007831-2025
- 4 Mar 2025 at 11:05 - Award - UK5 - Transparency Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007788-2025

## Documents

- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007831-2025
  4th March 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/007788-2025
  4th March 2025 - Transparency notice on Find a Tender

## Notice URLs

- http://dxc.com
- https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2023/54/contents

## Provenance

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