UHB Wheels Application - Pre-market Engagement

Concepts

• birmingham
• information technology
• bespoke data capture applications
• uhb
• wheels
• software services
• birmingham heartlands hospital
• queen elizabeth hospital birmingham
• good hope hospital
• qehb

Location

Description

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB), which manages and operates Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Solihull Hospital, Good Hope Hospital and Birmingham Chest Clinic, is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. The Trust is a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. It has expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and provides the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. It provides a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. It has more than 700 IT systems, ranging from bespoke data capture applications used by individuals to medical device integrations and enterprise-wide resource planning solutions. As an NHS organisation, UHB will see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites UHB currently employs over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is seeking to engage with suppliers interested in its requirement for an Equipment Management Solution to support the WHEELS equipment service at QEHB. The WHEELS service at QEHB has a main function of the short-term provision of wheelchairs for patients being discharged from QEHB. The main function of the WHEELS application is a referral management software and prescription of a wheelchair with managing stock levels.

CPV Codes

• 72000000 - IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support
• 72260000 - Software-related services

Other Information

The trust has existing access to a bespoke software, which has been used by QE for more than 10 years, thus an upgrade to a new system is required however interested suppliers should note that we do not require an off-the shelf product and only require a solution that is bespoke for what we intend to use it for. Suppliers wishing to participate in this market engagement exercise and express an interest in this requirement should respond to the questionnaire via the online form on the Health Family Single eCommercial System Portal (Atamis) by 15:00 on Friday 30th August 2024. https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Please search for C300229 To View documents please register interest and then navigate "My Proposals and quotes"