Full-text fulfilment tool for the NHS in England - Health Education England
A Contract Award Notice
by HEALTH EDUCATION ENGLAND
- Source
- Find a Tender
- Type
- Contract (Services)
- Duration
- not specified
- Value
- £308K
- Sector
- PROFESSIONAL
- Published
- 29 Mar 2021
- Delivery
- not specified
- Deadline
- n/a
Concepts
Location
England
2 buyers
- Health Education England Leeds
1 supplier
- Third Iron Ramsey County
Description
Health Education England (HEE - the Commissioner) put out a notice as a PIN (Prior Information Notice) with a view to completing a Direct Award. The contracting authority made clear its intention to direct award the contract to Third Iron. The case for direct award was made available on the tender portal. The financial envelope for the contract is £308,000. The PIN link is: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003386-2021 This is the associated Award notice.
Total Quantity or Scope
1. Well established experience of working in partnership with EBSCO to enable seamless integration with the EBSCO Discovery Service, which is being deployed across the NHS in England. 2. Ability to deploy at scale: across the NHS in England there are approximately 400 OpenAthens organisational identities, 280 discovery service instances and 185 library services. 3. Extensive experience of working with NHS organisations to provide full-text fulfilment services for the healthcare workforce. 4. Experience of providing technical support, advice and documentation to NHS library and IT professionals. 5. Evidence of proactive product development based on library and user feedback and trends in the digital publishing and discovery landscape, and willingness to work in partnership on projects to provide bespoke enhancements for NHS users.
Award Detail
| 1 | Third Iron (None)
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Award Criteria
| PRICE | _ |
CPV Codes
- 80000000 - Education and training services
Indicators
- Award on basis of price.
Legal Justification
A PIN notice was placed via ProContract as a Call for Competition, the notice was live for 30 days. https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003386-2021 Publication reference: 2021/S 000-003386 Publication date: 19 February 2021 F01: Prior information notice Call for competition
Reference
- FTS 006413-2021