That NHS England patient data platform procurement, FDP, is live. And worth up to £480m
NHS England has kicked off the formal competition for its Federated Data Platform, giving suppliers just one month to bid for the increased contract value of up to £480 million over seven years, as rights groups threaten legal action.
Privacy campaigners and legal groups have been critical of the procurement process and patient privacy assurance around the deal, which has seen Palantir awarded a series of contracts without competition to build the early iterations of the data platform NHS England sees as the key for the future of the service. NHS England has an annual budget of around £152.6 billion .
The value of the contract has been expanded from £360 million over five years, to up to £480 million over seven years at a time when nurses and paramedics are striking to get pay rises commensurate with inflation.said potential suppliers would have until 9 February to submit their bids, giving them little time to capture the complex technical and operational requirements laid out in the notice.
NHS England has said of the procurement that"competition is open to all suppliers and will abide by all the core principles of the regulations including transparency, non-discrimination, equal treatment and proportionality. These principles apply to all suppliers who decide to bid for the NHS England Federated Data Platform."
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