Digital Capability for Health 2

This agreement enables public sector organisations find suppliers who can create and maintain digital services for health and care.

Updates

To request pricing information, please email info@crowncommercial.gov.uk, using the subject line ‘Digital Capability for Health 2: RM6345 pricing request’.

Description

This agreement gives you access to suppliers who can support with public health and care programmes application development and management service requirements.

Services you can access include:

  • development operations (DevOps) services: support for ongoing live services
  • digital definition services: creating and progressing the project through discovery and alpha phases
  • build and transition services: building the services using beta and live phases to GDS and/or NHS service standards
  • end-to-end development services: designing and developing the services from discovery to live phases
  • data management (and similar) services: for performing data collection, data processing and analysis and management of data and services

You will be able to combine appropriate service areas with GDS phases. For more information on GDS project phases, take a look at the phases of an agile project.

The agreement has a 3 year initial term, with an option to extend for 12 months

Call-off contracts can be up to a maximum length of 3 years, across all service provisions. Customers are allowed to extend their call off contract for a period of 12 months and then a further period of 12 months.

Benefits

  • access to suppliers with the right capabilities and experience to meet your needs
  • supports further competition to make sure public sector  are receiving value for money
  • quality and price can be assessed based on individual customers’ needs
  • provides services in an agile way based on the Service Standard

Carbon Reduction

All suppliers for this agreement have committed to comply with the Procurement Policy Note 06/21: 'Taking account of Carbon Reduction Plans in the procurement of major government contracts' as required. If a supplier is required to publish a carbon reduction plan, you can find it on their individual supplier details page.

Products and suppliers

There are 22 suppliers on this agreement

Lot 1: Digital Capability for Health 2

Expires:

22 suppliers

How to buy

You will need to run a further competition to buy from this agreement. You can do this using the CCS eSourcing portal.

If this is your first time using the eSourcing tool, you will need to register an account.

If you have already registered, you can log into your eSourcing account.

You are able to refine the public sector contract call off terms for running a further competition, as long as you follow the Public Contract Regulations 2015. This will allow you core flexibility when defining your statement of requirements.

We’ve broken down how to run a further competition into 6 steps:

  1. Define your requirements (identify your needs):

    This is where you determine your needs and objectives for the contract. Start by identifying, mapping and interviewing stakeholders to understand requirements. Consider key factors like contract duration and whether it’s a one-off purchase or long-term arrangement. For detailed guidance, refer to the buyer guide.

  2. Finalise your needs

    Conduct pre-tender market engagement to gather supplier insights, identify market developments and refine your requirements.

  3. Complete documentation including the specification

    You must complete your specification, evaluation criteria, call-off order form and any applicable joint and call-off schedules (as well as any special terms you wish to include).

  4. Issue further competition invitation by email or through your chosen eSourcing tool:

    You’ll need to prepare an invitation to tender (ITT) document. This will include:

    • a timetable
    • instructions for suppliers about how to ask questions and submit a bid
    • the specification and the evaluation criteria
    • the call-off contract order form
    • any applicable joint and call-off schedules
    • any special terms you wish to include

  5. Evaluate bid proposals

    A minimum of three evaluators should independently score supplier responses against the predefined evaluation criteria from the ITT. Evaluators must document clear and robust rationale for their scoring decisions before collectively agreeing on final scores in consensus.

  6. Award the contract

    Notify the successful and unsuccessful suppliers of your decision, complete and sign the contract documentation and comply with Public Contracts Regulations 2015 transparency requirements. If applicable, publish the contract award notice on Contracts Finder.

For more information about the buying process, download our buyer guide below.

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