Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record

Description

The Trust intends to enter into a contract with First Data Bank (FDB) UK for the provision of FDB Multilex. Multilex is FDB UK's proprietary software which provides medicines optimisation and clinical decision support for medicines management for the purposes of embedding within the Healthset Programme Epic electronic health and care record.

Key facts

Procedure

Direct award

Lots

1

Contact

servicesteam.procurement@somersetft.nhs.uk

Contract period

17 Nov 2026 → 31 Mar 2036

Value incl. VAT

£3.1m

Category

goods

Awarded suppliers

• FIRST DATABANK UK LTD · GB-COH-01880682 · UKK43, GB

Ground given for limiting competition

The buyer’s own stated reason for awarding without open competition, as published. Their assertion, not a finding.

FDB Multilex is integrated with Epic and provides the drug knowledge database functionality required for delivery of the Healthset Epic Electronic Health Record. Following market engagement, the contracting authority has concluded that alternative solutions cannot provide the required integration within the programme's implementation timescales. The contracting authority therefore consider that there is an absence of competition for technical reasons and that there are no reasonable alternatives capable of meeting the requirement within the technical and implementation constraints of the programme. Accordingly, the direct award justification in paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the Procurement Act 2023 applies.