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Services - 486717-2020
14/10/2020    S200

United Kingdom-Leeds: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

2020/S 200-486717

Prior information notice

This notice is for prior information only

Services

Legal Basis:
Directive 2014/24/EU

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1)Name and addresses
Official name: NHS England
Postal address: Quarry House, Quarry Hill
Town: Leeds
NUTS code: UK UNITED KINGDOM
Postal code: LS1 7UE
Country: United Kingdom
Contact person: Jacqueline Powell
E-mail: jacqueline.powell9@nhs.net
Telephone: +44 7919521167
Internet address(es):
Main address: www.england.nhs.uk
Address of the buyer profile: www.nhsengland.bravosolution.co.uk
I.2)Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.3)Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
I.4)Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5)Main activity
Health

Section II: Object

II.1)Scope of the procurement
II.1.1)Title:

Discovery Project to Assess the Viability of an Integrated Cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Solution for the NHS in England

II.1.2)Main CPV code
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
II.1.3)Type of contract
Services
II.1.4)Short description:

This prior information notice (PIN) seeks market advice, from software vendors only, and is not linked to a contracting opportunity.

NHS England is seeking advice from the market for their views on possible solutions for an integrated ERP solution.

II.1.5)Estimated total value
II.1.6)Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: no
II.2)Description
II.2.2)Additional CPV code(s)
72000000 IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
II.2.3)Place of performance
NUTS code: UK UNITED KINGDOM
II.2.4)Description of the procurement:

This prior information notice (PIN) seeks market advice, from software vendors only, and is not linked to a contracting opportunity.

NHS England is looking for support and advice by way of a request for information (RFI) from interested parties. This discovery project will build upon the work being performed within the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and Integrated Single Finance Environment (ISFE) programmes to identify the likely benefits and drawbacks of adopting an integrated ERP versus separate ESR and finance systems. This project will also need to consider required business process change to deliver the identified benefits.

To provide some idea of the scale and complexity of the integrated ERP solution, the current systems are used by over 450 separate organisations (which includes all elements of the NHS in England, e.g. all arm’s length bodies, trusts, foundations trusts, integrated care systems, etc.) and over 1.7 million employees. The potential functionalities required are recruitment, HR, payroll, learning, talent management, finance, procurement, planning and budgeting.

We plan to hold a vendor engagement session at 10-11 a.m. on 19 October 2020 to discuss this opportunity and your questions. Please submit your questions to Jacqueline Powell by noon 15 October 2020. We will anonymise questions so please give careful consideration to how these are worded.

A recommendation is expected to be submitted as part of the draft outline business case by January 2021.

II.2.14)Additional information

Please download the pre-tender market engagement questionnaire from Bravo, complete and submit by noon on Monday 26 October 2020.

Please note this is not a PQQ, this is pre-tender market engagement questionnaire. Economic operators submitting this questionnaire will neither be assessed or down selected based on the content of their response.

II.3)Estimated date of publication of contract notice:
09/10/2020

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)Description
IV.1.8)Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.3)Additional information:

Please download the pre-tender market engagement questionnaire from Bravo, complete and submit by noon on Monday 26 October 2020.

Please note this is not a PQQ, this is pre-tender market engagement questionnaire. Economic operators submitting this questionnaire will neither be assessed or down selected based on the content of their response.

Interested parties can download a copy of this RFI here — https://nhsengland.bravosolution.co.uk/esop/guest/go/opportunity/detail?opportunityId=49906

VI.5)Date of dispatch of this notice:
09/10/2020