Digital Partnering

Description

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) entering into a Population Based Collaboration Agreement (Agreement) with Babylon Partners Limited (Babylon) to develop and deliver innovative digital systems and joint care services focussing on proactive interventions and prevention, managing chronic conditions more effectively and intensively supporting service users admitted to hospital. Initial term for the Agreement: 5 years; extendable for further 5 years with breaks in years 8 and 9. Max duration 10 years. Intention of parties is to develop systems which deliver savings to RWT. Financial modelling assumes Babylon invests at its own risk; if projected savings generated, will be shared between RWT and Babylon through Gain/Loss Share Agreement. Modelling only able to be undertaken over first 5 years of Agreement; if successful (and extended) it is anticipated that a similar level of savings (and therefore cost to RWT) will be incurred over the extended period of the Agreement. Lot 1: RWT sought to enter into some form of longer term partnering arrangement as a means to develop digital service delivery solutions to its population. After market research RWT began discussions with Babylon, identifying it as the only provider of these kinds of solutions available on the market at the scale it desired. As a result, RWT took the decision to negotiate and finalise the Agreement with Babylon directly without undertaking a competitive procurement process on the basis of a negotiated procedure without prior publication under Reg 32 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, on the grounds set out in Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) (competition being absent for technical reasons). Details of the Agreement are set out in Section II.4 above.