Business transaction and personal business software package

Tender description

The following notice is a Prior Information Notice (PIN) only. MLCSU is seeking expressions of interest from organisations, that can demonstrate the necessary technical capabilities, capacity and level of confidentiality that a patient information system requires to be considered for the award of a contract for the effective delivery, maintenance and data hosting of the patient information system, for the Individual Patient Activity (IPA) team within MLCSU. As well as current or previous providers MLCSU would like to encourage new suppliers to tender their interest. MLCSU intend to procure an IPA system covering Continuing Health Care (CHC), Funded Nursing Care (FNC), Complex Adult / Children, Mental Health and Personal Health Budget packages of care. MLCSU currently operate with 2 different Patient Information Systems with multiple databases for individual CCG's, CHC and Mental Health. The successful supplier with be expected to develop an action plan and provide services to enable migration, mapping and amalgamation of all existing data sources into one unified system and provide operational support for all data capture procedures coincident with the ‘go live’ date. There are also additional local procurement systems and external databases that will require linking with the new patient information system to enable cohesive working. MLCSU wishes to use competition to secure the most appropriate and value for money functionality to enable cohesive efficient working of a patient information system across the board. Specifically, MLCSU is seeking interest from parties who can demonstrate how they will: — enable all operational capabilities, including but not limited to patient information recording administration and management, reporting, record and manage contract monitoring and management, safeguarding issues, full financial administration processes (invoice credits and debits, scheduling) and tools for management accountancy services including modeling and budgetry control; — all delivery partners must be NHS Information Govenance Toolkit compliant for hosting patient information, with a current toolkit that has been externally validated, with sufficient capacity for current requirements and any potential growth; — the solution should be fully managed with maintenance, training and system development included with in the contract; — there must be the ability to govern access to the system, with multiple levels of access and permissions that can be configured from basic access to full administration and auditing rights; — the system will operate in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, the Copmuter Misuse Act 1990, Freedom of Information Act 2000, Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1998 and will make every reasonable effort to safeguard confidentiality and preserve patient identifiable data security; — financial integration is mandatory with the ability to support the financial coding to be centrally administered by the CSU and reportable under these categories; — full audit and reporting facilities will be available to the user, with sufficient permissions, to review all serch, inputs, edits, deletions and other tasks by a user, and provide a report on such information; — the system should facilitate the best use of current and future technology.