IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support

Tender description

GP IT Systems for patient administration, clinical applications, and associated services for 85 practices in the Lanarkshire Health Board region currently provided by Vision (in Practice Systems Ltd). These applications comply with the Scottish Enhanced Functionality (SEF) requirement. Lanarkshire Health Board require a modification to a contract to provide the continuation of services for GP IT Systems from their current contractor to cover an extended transition period of 24 months to new services provided under a Framework Agreement awarded by National Services Scotland ['NSS'], pursuant to which services may be delivered to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, local authorities, to entities constituted under the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014, the Scottish Prison Service, GP practices or premises from which GP or primary medical care services are provided, for GP IT Managed Services (OJEU 2019/S 024-053582). This modification allows contractors that have been appointed to the Framework Agreement to achieve a specified extent of compliance with certain functional and non-functional requirements which were all clearly identified in the procurement documents. This validation exercise is agreed to take 12 months. This modification then allows for 6 months for these practices to agree a new call off contract following mini competition according to the rules of the Framework Agreement. This modification allows for a further 6 months transition from old services to new.