Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, against what criteria the potential provider of the Federated Data Platform will be assessed to ensure it has the capabilities to deliver the project.
The following table shows the evaluation criteria for the Federated Data Platform and Associated Services procurement which was published as part of the procurement documentation on NHS England’s e-tendering system:
| Quality (Technical) | |||||
| 1a) Requirements | No weighting or scoring |
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1b) Data Platform Functionality | 6% |
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1c) Data Processing | 4% |
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1d) Analytical Solutions | 4% |
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1e) Platform Scenario | 5% |
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| 2a) Service Management | 3% |
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2b) Third-party Integration, Development, and Publication | 5% |
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| 3a) Customer management | 3% |
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| 4a) Integration | 5% |
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4b) Security and Information Governance | 5% |
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| 5a) Delivery at Pace | 5% | |||
| 5b) Business Change | 5% | ||||
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| 6a) Ways of Working | 5% | |||
| 6b) Innovation | 3% | ||||
| 6c) Continuous improvement | 2% | ||||
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| 7a) Fighting climate change | 5% | |||
| 7b) Equal opportunity | 5% | ||||
| Commercial | |||||
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| 8a) Rate Card | 5% | |||
| 8b) Implementation (transition) | 2.5% | ||||
| 8c) Use Case Development | 5% | ||||
| 8d) Run | 17.5% |
Note: The evaluation criteria comprised 60% quality, 10% social value and 30% commercial.