ISFE Extension During re-Procurement

Concepts

• isfe
• administration services
• leeds
• isfe extension
• nhs sbs
• nhs england
• accounts.the service
• financial analysis and accounting
• users of the current service
• business intelligence

Location

East of England: Leeds

Description

Total Quantity or Scope

ISFE is a service currently provided through NHS SBS, which is a joint venture between Department of Health & Social Care (DHSC) and Sopra Steria. ISFE enables NHS England to prepare consolidated accounts.The service is mandated across the NHS England group and NHS Improvement, and is wholly funded by NHS England and NHS Improvement. Users of the current service are commissioners (CCGs, Regions), national teams and CSUs. As part of the service NHS SBS provide a “back office” function which facilitates the handling of transactions through a workflow management process and provide daily and monthly reconciliations to the group.ISFE is a national service that is used to manage the financial requirements of the NHS England Group and NHS Improvement. The service includes a reporting package known as Business Intelligence in addition to the core modules and is used by commissioning bodies to administer their financial key management and statutory obligations.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 75100000 - Administration services
• 72212440 - Financial analysis and accounting software development services
• 66172000 - Financial transaction processing and clearing-house services
• 48440000 - Financial analysis and accounting software package
• 48812000 - Financial information systems
• 72250000 - System and support services
• 48441000 - Financial analysis software package
• 72232000 - Development of transaction processing and custom software
• 79210000 - Accounting and auditing services
• 79211000 - Accounting services
• 79211120 - Sales and purchases recording services
• 79211200 - Compilation of financial statements services
• 79994000 - Contract administration services
• 79222000 - Tax-return preparation services
• 79999200 - Invoicing services

Legal Justification

The ISFE re-procurement project is a large and complex project which will deliver a replacement for the current service. During the planning stages for the reprocurement it was identified that short term uncertainties regarding Group structure posed significant challenge to finalising a tender specification during 2019 with a review to implementing a replacement service by April 2021. The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic has meant that the project team and other key colleagues have had to focus their resource on keeping critical business processes running and work on the procurement of the new contract has inevitably been delayed.The extension allows enough time for a robust governance and procurement process and provides enough time for design and implementation.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** Regulation 72 (1) (b) allows modifications to accommodate additional works, services or supplies by the original contractor, which have become necessary but were not included in the initial procurement, where a change of contractor cannot be made for economic or technical reasons and would cause significant inconvenience and substantial duplication of costs for the contracting authority and any increase in price also does not exceed 50% of the value of the original contract.As outlined within this notice NHS England & Improvement there are a number of reasons why a new procurement process has not been possible until now, including the national pandemic which has diverted resources. Clearly a new procurement process is needed but requires sufficient time to plan for the next contract, run a new compliant procurement and then, once a new supplier is awarded the new contract, time to transition and implement the replacement contract. The new ISFE re-procurement project is a large and complex project which we expect will deliver a transformed service when compared to the current service. A change of contractor at this stage would cause significant inconvenience and have substantial duplication of cost implications as in order to compliantly replace the contractor now would require two concurrent procurement processes to be run for the same service. It would therefore be both impractical and uneconomic. The total value of this modification does not exceed 50% of the original contract value.