UK consortium bid for NHS data platform falls at first hurdle
A UK consortium bid for the NHS Federated Data Platform — an ongoing competition worth up to £480 million — has fallen at the first hurdle., the consortium — which included Voror Health Technologies, Eclipse and Black Pear — was told it had not passed the first stage of the tender process by NHS England, the government’s non-departmental public body responsible for running the NHS, one of the world’s largest health providers.
“For us this isn’t the end of a process, it’s the beginning of a new one, we look to announce our intentions in the summer,” he said., the Financial Times said Oracle Cerner and IBM are also set to bid for the FDP contract, which has attracted widespread criticism among patients, privacy campaigners and medical groups.
However, US spy-tech firm Palantir sees the contract as a “must-win” and is considered a clear favorite given that is already built the NHS Covid-data store under a series of contracts arranged without external competition. Functionality from the existing data store, and another project it supports called
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