Systems and technical consultancy services

Tender description

The Trust is currently contracted with Cerner for the supply of iCare Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust was created on 1.8.2013 from a merger of Lewisham Healthcare NHS Trust and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich. The focus since merger has been to ensure business continuity, advance the infrastructure programme, continue with deployments of the Cerner systems on each of the sites and prepare for the deployment of the Virtual Patient Record. At Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH), the Cerner system went live on 6.7.2014 as part of the BT LSP contract. At University Hospital Lewisham, the Cerner system, under a direct contract with Cerner, went live in May 2015 with an upgrade to the latest code base scheduled for June 2016. The deployment of FirstNet within UHL ED, the merger of the 2 instances of Cerner at QEH and UHL followed by the deployment of Phase 2 clinical functionality across both sites. Consultancy services for all 3 projects, to include specifically (but not exclusively): — Delivery of Programme/Project Management services; — Testing; — Change management; — Transition to service; — Management of Trust side project staff and data migration contractors; — Management of other third parties, including the relationship with Cerner. Consultancy for the planning and end to end delivery of Data Migration services for merger of the Cerner Millennium instances at QEH and UHL, scope of which is defined within the Data Migration Strategy (separately uploaded in the TenderBox). This will involve: — Data migration (extraction, transformation, load, testing and support). Data will need to be transformed into Cerner Millennium IFF specifications. Data Migration will be performed using 3 trial loads, plus Full Dress Rehearsal, then a go-live. The capability to include ‘mini’ loads must be covered within the requirements. This requirement will include delivery of full data migration services and tool-sets. — Data migration work-stream management, including testing. — Archiving as per data migration strategy. Planning and delivery of Training Services for both merger of the Cerner Millennium instances at QEH and UHL and the Phase 2 roll-out. This will include: — Classroom training; — 1:1 training; — E-learning; — Floor-walking as required; — Creation of training collateral — ‘how to’ guides, QRG's, etc.