CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

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Authority Name and Address

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Address from which documentation may be obtained

As in 1.1

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Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

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Title

NHS Wales Integration Priorities and Roadmap Consultancy

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Description of the goods or services required

The NHS Wales Informatics Service (NWIS) provides a range of services and national IT systems that are used across Wales. Our approach uses an integration engine to manage and transform electronic messages between systems. The team that develop and support this integration engine has a large workload and a small number of staff, and the COVID-19 outbreak has put significant further pressure on the team to deliver fast paced developments across Welsh health and care. Due to the current workload demand, including high priority Covid 19 work the integration functions require additional support for work prioritisation.

As a result, NWIS Directors have requested consultancy support to:

1. Undertake a review of the current integration priorities and develop an improved prioritisation framework to:

• Gain a better collective understanding of the immediate COVID-19 priorities;

• Identify where there are overlaps across the immediate priorities;

• Provide a draft timeline of when the immediate priorities can be delivered with current resources;

• Identify where additional resources might be needed to deliver the priorities at a faster pace.

2. Set out a roadmap for integration functions to transition to a more open architecture and standards-based interoperability approach, as set out in the National Data Resource business case and the Digital Architecture Review.

NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=103678

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Notice Coding and Classification

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Total quantity or scope of tender

Work Package 1: Develop an improved prioritisation framework and a roadmap to a more open architecture and standards-based interoperability approach.

Subsequent work packages may include:

• provision of data engineering

• provision of software engineering

• service Improvement support

3 Conditions for Participation

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Minimum standards and qualification required

4 Administrative Information

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Type of Procedure

Single stage

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Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

P662

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Time Limits

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Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

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Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

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Additional Information

(WA Ref:103678)

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice