Awarded contract

C001757 Public Cloud for the National Digital Platform

Details

Value
£4,845,006
Duration
10 years
Published
20 April 2020

Tender description

NHS Education for Scotland (NES) wishes to contract for provision of public cloud services to host the National Digital Platform. Development of the National Digital Platform (NDP) is a commitment under the Scottish Government’s Digital Health and Care Strategy which was published in April 2018. The NDP work is being taken forward by NES Digital Service. The Platform will: - make it possible to create and deploy real time data at the point of care (including through self-service) to improve the quality of care and patient outcomes; - operate to a predictable architecture which to enable new and innovative products to be developed and implemented across the health and care system; and - enable the use of data at scale for quality improvement and to support research and innovation.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award published20 April 2020
    Current notice
  2. Completed: Award date20 April 2020
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 March 2030in 4 years

About the buyer

The Common Services Agency, better known as Public Services Delivery Scotland (PSD Scotland), procures goods and services for NHS Scotland's hospitals and health boards. Suppliers register through Scotland's Supplier Journey before bidding for any contract. Tenders are advertised on the Public Contracts Scotland portal under the Common Services Agency buyer profile, no registration required. National Procurement, PSD Scotland's central buying team, sources high-volume items such as medical supplies and pharmaceuticals for the whole health service. Individual health boards manage smaller, local contracts separately. Larger notices also appear through the Tenders Direct and SIMAP services.

£434bn was the total UK public sector procurement spend in FY 2025/26.

Over the past 5 years, most of PSD Scotland's contract awards have been in IT services, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and education and training.

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