23_03_01 NHSE API Development Pharmacy DMS

NHSBSA (as a Special Health Authority Department of Health and Social Care) receives details relating to NHS Advanced and Essential Services outlined in the Community Pharmacy Contractual Framework and the Drug Tariff via its Manage Your Service Portal (MYS Portal) to reimburse Community Pharmacy Contractors in England. NHS England (NHSE) has commissioned NHSBSA to deliver these services in respect of the Discharge Medicines Service (DMS).

Further to the publication of the previous Contracts Finder Notice* the NHSBSA is inviting additional suppliers to bid for this opportunity. This opportunity is for Suppliers who already provide software to pharmacies, to develop an API for DMS, to enable the transmission of data from the Supplier's software to the MYS Portal and receipt into the Supplier's software of response data from the MYS Portal.

Suppliers will be paid a fixed fee of £20,000 excluding VAT for the successful development, testing and go-live of the API when completed in accordance with NHSBSA standards and completion dates.

The proposed timeline is as follows:

• Tender issued: 17 July 2023
• Supplier clarification questions submitted: 12:00 on 24 July 2023
• Tenders due: 12:00 on 31 July 2023
• Contract commences: 14 August 2023

• Present the Software (the user interface) to the Authority in confirmation that it has developed the Software to incorporate all fields and capture all data required by the Authority in the Services Specification, and that are necessary to enable the Pharmacy Contractor to provide the DMS Services to citizens by 14 December 2023
• Confirm that the Software can make a suitable report available to the Pharmacy Contractors that informs them of the level of activity they've input for each claim period and will enable the Pharmacy Contractor to provide the required data to the relevant Trust by 11 January 2024
• Acceptance Tests complete by 18 January 2024
• Successful transmission of a live service message via the API by 25 January 2024
• Live message transmission commencement and service payment window opens by 1 February 2024

The following requirements apply to all Suppliers:

1. They are a current supplier of dispensing or clinical services.
2. They can deliver the requirements and key (testing and development) milestones within the timescales set out herein.
3. They agree that the fixed fee of £20,000 excluding VAT will only be paid on successful development, testing and go-live of the API.
4. They will enter into the NHSBSA Non-Processor Agreement and Software Development and Support Agreement.
5. They will support ongoing changes to the service up to twice annually for the duration of the existing CPCF agreement.