Awarded contract

e-Library Databases

Details

Buyer: NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership
Supplier(s): EBSCO International Inc UK, Wolters Kluwer Health, ProQuest LLC
Topic: Software support services
Published: 9 November 2023
Source: uk:sell2wales

Tender description

Digital Health and Care Wales ("DHCW") required access to the British Nursing Database, Health Management Information Consortium (“HMIC”) Database and CINAHL Plus with Full Text Database. The Invitation to Tender ("ITT") was issued via the NICE Electronic and Print Content Framework – Lot 5 for Databases and Evidence Summaries (NICEFAHEE/2125).

Timeline

Completed: Award date25 October 2023
Completed: Award published9 November 2023
Current notice

About the buyer

NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership is hosted by Velindre NHS Trust and buys as a healthcare body for every health board and trust in Wales through its Procurement Services division. Tenders are advertised on Sell2Wales and run through the eTenderWales portal. Frameworks cover capital equipment, pharmaceuticals, clinical supplies, food, utilities, maintenance, IT and the commissioning of healthcare services. Local procurement teams work with each health board alongside sourcing, supply chain and accounts payable teams. Where appropriate, tenders are split into smaller lots so SMEs can bid.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership's contract awards have been in health and social work, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and repair and maintenance.

Relevant CPV codes

72261000 · Software support services
72268000 · Software supply services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov