Digital Capability for Health 2
Summary:
Provides access to suppliers who can support the public health and care sector with their application development and management service requirements.
Updates:
09/10/2023: This agreement will replace RM6221 Digital Capability for Health.
02/04/2024: The market engagement for RM6345 Digital Capability for Health 2 has now ended. The full list of Q&As following supplier engagement sessions will be posted on this page in the next coming days. We thank all the suppliers who have engaged with us and shared their thoughts.
A webinar session will be held ahead of the invitation to tender (ITT). The ITT is scheduled for mid May 24. Further details will be posted to inform potential bidders of the ITT process.
If you have any further feedback, please email dcd@crowncommercial.gov.uk. If you would like to have a one-to-one session, please specify this in your email. Please note: one-to-one sessions will only be offered on the 15, 16 and 19 April 2024.
16/04/2024: Thank you to all the suppliers who have taken the opportunity to engage with us on RM6345: Digital Capability for Health 2, no further one-to-one session slots are available.
Please find questions and answers in this link
We are holding sessions with suppliers this week and will add any further answers to questions raised in these sessions to this web page soon.
Description:
Access suppliers who can help you to develop new digital solutions and provide support for existing products.
Services you can access include:
- development and operations (DevOps): for ongoing minor improvements of live services
- digital definition services: creating and progressing your project through discovery and alpha phases
- build and transition services: building your services using beta and live phases
- end-to-end development services: designing and developing your services from discovery to live phases>
- data management (and similar) services: for performing data collection, data processing and analysis and management of data and services
Benefits:
- access to suppliers with the right capabilities and experience to meet your needs
- supports further competition to make sure health and social care bodies are receiving value for money
- quality and price can be assessed based on individual customer’s need
- provides services in an agile way based on the Service Standard
Product types:
We will provide more information on the lot structure and scope at a later date.
Customer engagement
Pre-market customer engagement started with the following webinars:
Supplier engagement
Pre-market supplier engagement started with the following webinars:
TechUK is pleased to be hosting Crown Commercial Service (CCS) for the latest hybrid supplier webinar engagement session which will support shaping the new Digital Capability for Health 2 framework agreement:
Thursday 18 January from 10:30am to 12:30am
The question and answers from the supplier sessions are available below:
RM6345 Supplier engagement question and answers
The next pre invitation to tender (pre-ITT) supplier engagement is on 10 May. You can sign-up for the RM6345 pre-ITT event using this link.
Important links
| Prior Information Notice (PIN) | Read PIN |
|---|---|
| Contract notice in Find a Tender (FTS) | Read contract notice |
| Tender documents | Not available yet |
Timeline
| Activity | Estimate dates |
|---|---|
| Pre-market engagement | Autumn 2023 |
| Drafting of procurement documents | Spring 2024 |
| Publication of FTS notice | Spring 2024 |
| Framework award | Autumn 2024 |