Sussex Health Informatics seeks framework deal

An informatics organisation serving 10 NHS trusts is setting up an information management and technology framework worth up to £7m

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Smart Healthcare, Wednesday 13 January 2010 13.18 GMT

In an advertisement in the Official Journal of the European Union on 13 January 2010, primary care trust NHS West Sussex said it was looking to set up a four year framework on behalf of the Sussex Health Informatics Service (HIS).

The framework, which is expected to have a value of between £3m and £7m, will enable Sussex HIS to order technical services through mini-competitions to supply NHS organisations across Sussex and occasionally Surrey and Kent.

Sussex HIS claims to be largest such service by user base, supporting more than 36,000 users at 10 NHS trusts: the primary care trusts for Brighton & Hove, East Sussex and Weald, Hastings and Rother, West Sussex; Brighton & Sussex University Hospital; East Sussex Hospitals; South Downs Health; Sussex Partnership Foundation Trust; Western Sussex Hospitals; and the local strategic health authority, NHS South East Coast.

The deal will be made up of three lots, with the first covering information governance and security, systems integration, information management and technology development, clinical systems and data migration. This is valued at between £1.5m and £4m.

The second lot is for web services, including development and design, and is expected to be worth between £1m and £2m.

Lot three covers management services and has been broken down into services categories covering projects and programmes; portfolio management; service management; business case development; change management and training; and procurement management. The value is estimated at between £500,000 and £1m.

NHS West Sussex expects the maximum number of suppliers to be 50. The deadline for initial applications is 15 February 2010.