MEH Technical INSIGHT Support

Tender description

The Authority wishes to appoint a provider to support two strands of research work in respect of Engineering Support for Research Database Build, training and capacity building to explore ophthalmic images using artificial intelligence systems as a means of deploying valuable clinical insights to better understand and stratify ophthalmic or related diseases. The Authority has two key strategic research collaborations, and although both have similar requirements, the contractual relationships are similar, as are the outputs, however the Authority has adopted a two (2) lot approach for this procurement. One lot will support the one project and the other lot will support the other. Two (2) separate agreements will be entered into, which will align with the Authority’s existing separate collaboration agreements. It is intended that the lots will be awarded to one provider who scores the overall highest scores for quality and financial costs. The Authority and University College London Institute of Ophthalmology formulated a Research Informatics Strategy to bring in to focus the importance of a robust data infrastructure for the research ambitions of the Authority and to identify the infrastructure requirements to build capacity. An Open OJEU tender process will be run for the provision of services relating to the Technical INSIGHT Support. This procurement will be run as two separate Lots, under one procurement process. The details for each lot are: Lot 1 – INSIGHT Project Lot 2 – Collaboration Project Lot 1 – INSIGHT requires the development of the research data platform and cloud infrastructure with UHB. Lot 2 – Collaboration requires the development of resources required to support the collaboration between the Authority and a Technical Industry partner. Keywords: Technical INSIGHT Support