Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

Tender description

The Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is a critical clinical IT solution deployed within pathology services that is required to be able to effectively manage requests,samples, and reports. The solution is supplied via a fully managed service to include software, off-site hosting and associated support & maintenance services. The LIMS is required to support all laboratory disciplines and must have the ability to support pathology services for multiple health organisations over multiple sites which currently includes North Bristol NHS Trust, University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, Infection Sciences at the Royal United Hospital in Bath as well as Public Health England. Lot 1: The contract is for the provision of a single Laboratory Information Management System(LIMS) supplied via a fully managed off site hosted service to incorporate the supply of software, hosting and associated support & maintenance services. The LIMS is required to support within a single database the pathology services delivered to multiple hospitals across North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust. In addition, the LIMS is required to support InfectionSciences at the Royal United Hospital in Bath as well as support end users at Public Health England. The solution must be scalable to accommodate changes in workload and any future expansion of services/sites. The solution must be able to create a single patient database fedby the multiple Trust’s primary patient management systems and have the capability to support all laboratory disciplines including Newborn Screening and Tissue Typing. The solution must support all required interfaces for downstream systems, analyser connections and multiple blood tracking solutions in place across the four hospitals.