NHS Improvement (Monitor will be the contracting body)
Phase 1 Digital Product Strategy General Capabilities for NHS Improvement (NHSI) website
Incomplete applications
5
Incomplete applications
4 SME, 1 large
Completed applications
2
Completed applications
1 SME, 1 large
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Published | Friday 23 June 2017 |
Deadline for asking questions | Friday 30 June 2017 at 11:59pm GMT |
Closing date for applications | Friday 7 July 2017 at 11:59pm GMT |
Overview
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Summary of the work | NHSI seeks to bolster and develop the corporate website's core capabilities, including how we present analytics to providers, re-platforming to enable digital data collections from providers and creating secure user administration function with a role based access capability function that providers can manage individually. |
Latest start date | Monday 31 July 2017 |
Expected contract length | Two years. |
Location | London |
Organisation the work is for | NHS Improvement (Monitor will be the contracting body) |
Budget range |
Budget is up to £400K subject to business case approvals. Phases of work shall be agreed as individual statements of work as approved by the Head of Digital Product Strategy. |
About the work
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Why the work is being done | NHSI launched a corporate website in April ’16 (improvement.nhs.uk). The vision is to deliver a single digital platform to enable NHSI to facilitate improvement across the NHS. The users of the website are primarily NHS employees. The website provides access to resources, policy, and best practice and secure access to a portal. The solution is built on django and wagtail CMS and integrates to an IMS (OKTA). NHSI are seeking a partner to help deliver the next phase of the portal with focus on the technical capabilities to underpin this work and support a number of digital services through Alpha. |
Problem to be solved |
NHSI requires solutions to several needs: 1. Ensure access to particular areas of the website is secure and correct and that there is a user administration function in place. (User administration security and role based access capabilities); 2. Enable the digital data collection service (re-platforming) on the website; 3. The way in which Providers access analytics (analytics presentation) on the website; and 4. Ability to address technical issues with solution in a dev ops model. |
Who the users are and what they need to do | Providers’ staff (NHS employees who work for Providers) need to be able to access analytics on our website so that they have the fullest picture of their performance and can make appropriate decisions. Providers need to be able to submit their submissions for data collection easily and seamlessly so that the burden of submission is eased and NHSI can respond quickly with support if needed. Providers and NHSI need to ensure access to areas of the website is granted based on role/permission and that there is a secure user admin function to facilitate this. |
Early market engagement | None. |
Any work that’s already been done | NHSI has recently completed the following related work: -launched single sign-on functionality for the website; created a registration process that grants users access to a particular part of the website and enable users to request additional access privileges based on their role; discovery around delegated authority; launched an access point on the website to analytics dashboards; and initial work around integration of Tableau to the website. |
Existing team | The successful Supplier will work with the Head of Digital Product Strategy, operations teams, development team and digital communications. |
Current phase | Alpha |
Work setup
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Address where the work will take place |
Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8UG. Some limited travel to Providers’ sites may also be necessary expenses for any such travel shall be paid in accordance with NHSI’s expenses policy. |
Working arrangements |
Members of the Supplier team should be on-site as required to support an agile delivery. The development team will host agile ceremonies (stand-ups, Show-&-Tell review, Retrospective and Sprint planning) which will be mandatory for the Supplier staff/team. Remote working is encouraged and access to NHSI IT/servers will be provided. Travel expenses will not be reimbursed - these should be accounted for in day rates. |
Security clearance | None. |
Additional information
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Additional terms and conditions |
Skills and experience
Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.
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How suppliers will be evaluated
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How many suppliers to evaluate | 6 |
Proposal criteria |
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Cultural fit criteria |
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Payment approach | Capped time and materials |
Assessment methods |
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Evaluation weighting |
Technical competence 70%
Cultural fit 10%
Price 20%
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Questions asked by suppliers
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1. Given that Wagtail open source CMS version 1.0 was only available from July 2015, would experience of less than 2 years be acceptable for this project? | Yes, we can accept a minimum of 18 months’ worth of Wagtail experience. |