Software package and information systems

Tender description

Type of Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation. The Authority seeks the licensing, delivery, installation, integration, data migration, training and support of an Electronic Patient Record System. To include the following mandatory Core functionality: — Clinical documentation to replace the paper record including Emergency Department (ED), inpatients, outpatients and multi-disciplinary team meetings — Nursing and AHP documentation to include community nursing and therapies. — ED tracker board. — Electronic observations, including track and trigger alerts. — Integrated clinical letters function with coding that meets NHS 2017 standard contract requirements to send ED, discharge letters and outpatient letters electronically to GPs. — Order Communications to include e-referrals, e-requesting and integrated results reporting. — Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA). — Clinical pathways and order sets. — Clinical Decision Support System. — User-configurable worklists and search function for patient tracking. — Clinical Coding and performance reporting functions. — Theatre management. — Critical Care. — Maternity — inpatient, outpatient and community. — Bed Management. — Discharge planning. — Patient portal. The Authority is looking for a commercial and well established solution to ensure compliance with the implementation timescales of a go live date of 2018. Therefore any solution which is not developed for a rapid implementation is unlikely to be successful. The Contracting Authority reserves the right under this procedure to award the contract on the basis of the initial tender without conducting a negotiation phase. The contract may also be subject to amendment during the course of the contract to include, additional licenses and services to implement the licenses, services to support the solution, additional functionality and modules detailed in the procurement documentation and which are within scope of an EPR, including departmental systems during the term of the contract. We reserve the right to seek these modifications but may not do so. Full details of the scope and the requirements is available in the procurement documentation at www.nhssourcing.co.uk