Digital Services for Integrated Care Suite of Frameworks

This Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to advise the market of forthcoming opportunities from NHS England's Digital Services for Integrated Care Programme, on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care for the provision of foundation Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solutions and associated capabilities, for primary care IT.

These solutions will be reflective of healthcare professionals' needs, as shared with NHS England through detailed research and user engagement. They will augment those solutions in development or already assured for marketing on the Digital Care Services Catalogue via two other active Frameworks: the Tech Innovation Framework and the Digital First Online Consultation and Video Consultation Framework and the former GP IT Futures Framework.

The Programme proposes to introduce additional standards and solution capability requirements in order to deliver the proposed opportunities; and will engage the market on its proposal, along with details of how solutions could be assured, procured and consumed.

Interested parties are asked to complete the Expression of Interest (EoI) that can be found via the Supplier Documents in Atamis. The Authority intends to respond to EoIs according to the level of interest in market engagement, and the quality and content of the EoI submission.

The services provided under the new Digital Services for Integrated Care suite of Frameworks will cover the following:

• Provision of applications to meet the business requirements of General Practice and broader Primary Care which includes:

Call off contracts awarded through the frameworks will provide services to:

• GPs, GP federations and networks, primary care homes, multi-speciality community providers, other integrated care organisations, integrated care systems and other purchases of primary care-based systems.

Estimated Value £975,800,000 Excluding VAT

Additional information: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome

Interested organisations are requested to express their interest in the services by visiting the Atamis e-procurement portal linked to above and searching for Atamis Reference number C176863.

Once registered on Atamis, organisations will be directed to published material both on Atamis and an external Confluence site.

This notice is an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit the Authority or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. The Authority will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise.

Interested parties should note that a response to this notice does not guarantee an automatic invitation to any subsequent formal procurement, which the commissioners will consider in due course.