Medical software package

Tender description

This contract is for the provision of an electronic blood tracking solution which is deployed on-premise and is a secure computerised system that ensures only authorised staff are able to access the system. The solution is required to have electronic storage controls to ensure only authorised staff are able to access blood stock; facilitates cross-matching issue of blood components; provides and maintains a complete audit trail of blood stock throughout the Trust to final disposal; an enquiries module; an alert to the clinical area when blood is available for collection via cross-match blood in the fridge; patient identification at the bedside; a reporting package; support individually identified products and batch products; ability to indicate, at ward level, whether the patient is available for electronic issue of blood; as well as requirements for system implementation and system support. This contract is for the provision of an electronic blood tracking solution to meet the Trust strategy in accordance with the Bristol and North Somerset and South Gloucestershire (BNSSG) Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) and NHS Digital approved strategy of system convergence across local trusts. The Trust will procure an electronic blood tracking solution and is required to meet all aspects of blood tracking including but not limited to electronic storage controls; facilitates cross-matching issue of blood components; complete audit trail of blood stock throughout the Trust through to final disposal, patient identification at the bedside (a bar-coded blood unit matched with a patient’s bar-coded wristband); a reporting package to enable accurate costing of use and wastage; Support individually identified products (e.g. Red Cells, Platelets) and Batch Products (e.g. HAS, Anti-D, ivIg, PCC with the ability to add new products as they become available.); optional requirements further include facilitating remote allocation (Issue) whereby a blood component is allocated to and a labelled for a specific patient; sample labelling; An alert to the clinical area when blood is available for collection via Remote Allocation (issue) in the blood fridge; Ability to read and use QR code 2D barcodes. In addition, this requirement is for the supply of professional services to project manage and implement the solution and as well as the provision of the relevant software licences this requirement is also for the supply of the associated ongoing system support and maintenance services as well as the supply of associated refrigerators and handheld devices and label printers.