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ClosedStage · tender

National Institute For Health And Care Excellence

External Assessment Centres Framework

R&DCPV 73000000
Value£5.9m
Deadline22 Dec 2021
Published3 Dec 2021
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 3 Dec 2021ClosedCloses 22 Dec 2021
Who to contact
Irene Walker
irene.walker@nice.org.uk
+44 1618703198

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

Contract value in context
£5.9mtotal contract value
median £66k
this tender£0£6.4m

This is a large award for Research & Development — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 20,405 valued Research & Development tenders in our corpus.

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The brief

NICE is seeking to commission external assessment centres (EACs) which will provide a range of health technology assessment (HTA) services to support its technology evaluation programmes and related activities (see above).

Suppliers must be able to provide all services within Lots 1 and 2, for Lot 3, 3a or 3b to bid for that Lot.

Suppliers need to be able to provide only the services within a work package to bid for any of the work packages within Lot 4.

Suppliers can bid for one or more Lots.

NICE will consider bids from multidisciplinary centres with knowledge and expertise in health technology assessment, enhanced for Lots 1 and 3 by a close association with frontline clinical services in areas related to medical technologies such as imaging or in vitro diagnostics.

Suppliers intending to provide services in Lot 2 will have significant expertise and experience of advanced HTA methods and be able to provide the service in relation to pharmaceuticals, medical, digital and diagnostic technologies.

NICE will consider proposals from consortia or networks of organisations meeting the selection criteria and encourages potential suppliers to explore collaborations that will result in the offer of a comprehensive range of services.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

NICE is seeking to commission external assessment

NICE is seeking to commission external assessment centres (EACs) which will provide a range of health technology assessment (HTA) services to support its technology evaluation programmes and related activities (see above).

02

Suppliers must be able to provide all

Suppliers must be able to provide all services within Lots 1 and 2, for Lot 3, 3a or 3b to bid for that Lot.

03

Suppliers need to be able to provide

Suppliers need to be able to provide only the services within a work package to bid for any of the work packages within Lot 4.

04

Suppliers intending to provide services in Lot

Suppliers intending to provide services in Lot 2 will have significant expertise and experience of advanced HTA methods and be able to provide the service in relation to pharmaceuticals, medical, digital and diagnostic technologies.

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Source & provenance
OCID
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Stage
tender · Open
Source
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Buyer ref
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