This prior information notice is to signal an intention to commence market engagement with those within the software application development market in order to raise supplier awareness of the framework, test supplier capability and resources to meet award criteria and to generate interest in the market.
Crown Commercial Service intends to hold a market engagement session during May 2020 with NHS Digital and suppliers interested in potentially bidding for the resulting commercial agreement. If you are interested in attending the market engagement session please express your interest by emailing cloud_digital@crowncommercial.gov.uk
Your email must clearly state: the name of your organisation, and contact details for the individual(s) who will participating in the market engagement, along with the following details:
1) Organisation name
2) Contact name
3) Job title of contact (including responsibility within your organisation)
4) Contact phone number
5) Contact email
6) Organisation website link.
Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation that you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so.
The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer to the CCS pipeline page https://www.crowncommercial.gov.uk/agreements/upcoming for updates and monitor Tenders Electronic Daily for the publication of the OJEU contract notice.
Please be advised that in preparation to participate in this competition for this framework that:
The cyber essentials scheme is mandatory for Central Government Contracts that involve handling personal information and providing certain ICT products and services. The Government is taking steps to further reduce the levels of cyber security risk in its supply chain through the Cyber Essentials scheme. The scheme defines a set of controls which, when properly implemented, will provide organisations with basic protection from the most prevalent forms of threat coming from the internet.
To participate in the procurement for the digital capability for health, bidders will be required to demonstrate that they comply with the technical requirements prescribed by cyber essentials for the services under and in connection with the procurement.
The bidder may be awarded a framework contract but shall not enter into any call off contracts with buyers until they are able to demonstrate to CCS that they meet the technical requirements prescribed by the cyber essentials scheme for services under and in connection with this procurement.
The service that arises from this framework will involve the supplier holding material that has been assigned a protective marking under the Government Security Classifications Scheme (April 2014) of Official. It will be a condition of this contract that this material must be protected. Baseline protection controls are defined in ISO27001:2013 and further defined by the security policy framework https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/government-security.
There is a potential need for a mix of outcomes and resource augmentation at the call-off level.