Dynamic Purchasing System for the Provision of Digital Services for Co-Managed Care

The Authority is establishing a collaborative Dynamic Purchasing System (DPS) for the Provision of Digital Services for Co-Managed Care. The DPS comprises seven categories (lots) as follows:-

1. Personal Data Store (PDS)

2. Health Data Exchange (HDE)

3. Personal Health and Care Records (PHCR)

4. Long Term Condition Services / Remote Monitoring Services

5. Care in Place / Independent Living

6. Mental Health and Wellbeing

7. Smart Housing / Communities

Suppliers must complete the Single Procurement Document (SPD) Scotland and meet the minimum entry criteria, detailed within this Contract Notice, to be established on the DPS.

The Challenge

-Existing health and social care pressures exacerbated by Covid-19 with rising waiting times for diagnosis and treatment, unsustainable levels of admission to hospital.

-Long term conditions are increasingly difficult to manage with increased dependence on remote care and third sector to support holistic care, independence and re-ablement.

-Many people now have more than one long term condition, making siloed, condition specific work even less sustainable.

Opportunity

-New ability for citizens to share their experiences, needs, preferences and activity data.

-Asynchronous, remote service delivery that can shift from appointment-based care to ongoing dialogue-based care using data sharing, messaging, and citizen self-assessment.

-There is an opportunity to expand on existing innovations to consider further shifting the balance of care into the community and enhancing the care model through:

• More cooperation with care homes, third sector and other community groups.
• More ability to screen and gather data to support diagnosis and decision making through high street--

based or home testing.

• More ability to structure services around symptoms or needs based pathways rather than solely focus on conditions or specialities.

Suppliers must provide details about the services they you can provide under this category (lot) including 2 relevant examples of services carried out in the last 3 years, as specified for each category (lot) being applied for. Examples from public and/or private sector may be provided. Supplier should submit their examples using the submission document provided and responses should not exceed 2 x A4 sheets, as set out in the procurement documents. Do not include hyperlinks or embed files to this response and ensure acronyms are explained in full. Note: at least two case study examples are required for each category (lot).

A copy of the 4C1.2 Response Template can be found at section 4C.1.2 of the Single Procurement Document (SPD) Scotland within Public Contracts Scotland – Tender (PCS-T). The form should be downloaded, populated with the relevant examples and uploaded.

Suppliers can apply for one or more (categories) lots.. Economic operators may be excluded from this DPS if they are in any of the situations referred to in Regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

For the avoidance of doubt for the purpose of this DPS the term 'Lot(s)' and 'Category(s)' will be interchangeable and 'Bidder(s) and 'Candidates' will be interchangeable.

Please note within PCS-T there are mandatory questions relating and Cyber Security and acceptance of the DPS

Terms and Conditions - Agreement for the Supply of Goods and Services and questions relating to Prompt Payment in the Supply Chain and payment of Real Living Wage.

No form of volume guarantee has been granted by the Authority. The Authority shall not be bound to order any of the services referred to within each lot description. The DPS will be open to entrants throughout its life who meet the minimum criteria.

Suppliers should note that buying organisations may incorporate a preferred bidder stage in their invitation to tender process to allow them to carry out appropriate due diligence on the preferred supplier.

The Authority will have the right to request evidence that entry criteria is still valid at any point during the life of the Dynamic Purchasing System with evidence to be provided via an updated SPD to the Authority within 5 working days of request being issued.

The DPS will be available for use by NHS National Services Scotland, Scottish health boards and special health boards, Scotland Excel and Scotland Excel's local authority members and associate members as listed: https://home.scotland-excel.org.uk/about-us/our-members/?filter_2213.

Community Benefits requirements will be determined at each individual call-off contract. A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided in the procurement documents. Suppliers shall note that other DPS users may specific their own community benefit requirements.

The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this PQQ exercise. The Project code is 22690. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343

A sub-contract clause has been included in this contract. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2363

Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: https://www.gov.scot/policies/public-sector-procurement/community-benefits-in-procurement/

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

A summary of the expected community benefits has been provided as follows:

Community Benefits requirements will be determined at each individual call-off contract.