Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the award criteria were for the Federated Data Platform contract.

NHS England conducted an open and competitive tender process for the Federated Data Programme. The evaluation criteria consisted of three parts:

- quality (technical), making up 60%;

- social value (10%); and

- commercial (30%).

These details are set out in the NHS Federated Data Platform and Associated Services prospectus which provides further information about the procurement process followed, and is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/nhs-federated-data-platform-and-associated-services/

The full evaluation criteria and scoring methodology was published as part of the complete tender documentation on NHS England’s e-tendering system.