National Inventory Management Solution

Tender description

This procurement was seeking to purchase software which will deliver a national inventory management solution in order to support the management, consumption, track and trace of critical care consumables acquired by or on behalf of NHS Scotland entities constituted pursuant to the national Health Service (Scotland) Act1978 (i.e. all NHS Scotland Health Boards and the Authority or other NHS organisations established pursuant to the NHS (Scotland) Act 1978)and potentially all Integrated Joint Boards established pursuant to the Public Bodies(Joint Working)Scotland Act 2014 regardless of end user which may include health, social care, hospice care or care in the community. The procurement project was seeking a Service Provider to provide a fully managed and hosted Cloud based service for a National Catalogue and Inventory Management solution in order to support the management, consumption, track and trace of critical care consumables across all areas of stock holdings within NHS Scotland and NHS Scotland partners in health and social care. A summary of the requirement is as follows, please note this list isn't exhaustive: The Service Provider will provide a fully managed and hosted service (SaaS); System updates managed centrally/performed remotely; GS1 and PEPPOL compliant; Catalogue data updateable in real time and managed directly by Suppliers; Real time Operational Management and Real time Management of all inventories: stock levels, recording usage, tracking demand/consumption, tracing product, automatic replenishment, goods returns; Support for GS1 standards for data such as GTINs (‘single’ and ‘outer’ supply units), GLNs and GSRNs; Interfaces/Usable Outputs to other systems supporting Theatre Management, Cath Labs, Patient Management, Equipment/Asset Management, Pharmacy prescribing/dispensing, Facilities Management and the National Catering System. Important note: There is a hard deadline for system “go live” of 31st March 2021. Contractors MUST ensure they detail in their tender response, how this hard deadline will be achieved. Please refer to the ITT document for further information on implementation of key milestones by this date.