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Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust

PR001 - Provision of SMS Messaging Service

Telecoms & PostCPV 64000000
Value£171k
Awarded7 Dec 2022
Published9 Mar 2023
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£171ktotal contract value
median £200k
this tender£0£7.9m

This sits in the lower-middle of the Postal & Telecommunications band — a mid-scale opportunity. Based on 2,074 valued Postal & Telecommunications tenders in our corpus.

The brief

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust required a service provider to provide a bulk SMS messaging service, that integrates with their clinical applications to send out messages such as; appointment confirmation and appointment reminders forty-eight (48) hours in advance.

The service further included sharing clinical test results and highly sensitive information with patients via SMS.

The procurement for the Provision of SMS Messaging Service was run as a further competition under the NHS SBS Patient/Citizen Communication & Engagement Solutions Framework, Lot-3 SMS (Reference Number: SBS10175).

As the tender was run as a mini competition off a Framework, there was no requirement to issue a Tender Notice and all eligible suppliers on the framework were invited to tender, as per PCR 2015.

The Authority used the Due North e-tendering portal at https://procontract.due-north.com/Login ("the e-Tendering Portal").

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

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Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust required

Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust required a service provider to provide a bulk SMS messaging service, that integrates with their clinical applications to send out messages such as; appointment confirmation and appointment reminders forty-eight (48) hours in advance.

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Source & provenance
OCID
20de79c3-d4be-4a9f-89ed-3761291cab36
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
KENTNHS001-DN640764-89604877
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