Replacement Library Management System for NHS Library Services in South West and South Central England

Tender description

Health Education England (HEE) is a Non-Departmental Public Body which exists to support the delivery of excellent healthcare and health improvement to the patients and public of England by ensuring that the workforce of today and tomorrow has the right numbers, skills, values and behaviours, at the right time and in the right place. For more about HEE, see https://www.hee.nhs.uk/about. HEE’s role in relation to NHS library services HEE provides system-wide leadership for NHS library and knowledge services in England (there are nearly 200 services in total, mostly hosted by NHS Trusts) and has published a strategic development framework for these services called ‘Knowledge for Healthcare’. Knowledge for Healthcare’s vision is that ‘NHS bodies, their staff, learners, patients and the public use the right knowledge and evidence, at the right time, in the right place, enabling high quality decision-making, learning, research and innovation to achieve excellent healthcare and health improvement’. Knowledge for Healthcare sets out guiding principles and key drivers for the delivery of this vision. For more about Knowledge for Healthcare, see https://www.hee.nhs.uk/our-work/library-knowledge-services. Please see below: Tenders comprising all the documents requested MUST be submitted via the ‘Supplying to the NHS’ Portal, www.supplying2nhs.org no later than Friday, 18th January 2019 at 18:00hrs using the My Response section within the Invitation to Tender. The closing time/date for receipt of tenders is clearly marked on the portal and you are recommended to upload all documents and submit your tender submission in sufficient time for it to reach the server prior to the closing time/date stated. The server automatically time/date stamps all tender submissions. Keywords: In the tender documents.