Event round-up: CCS Digital Capability for Health 2 Market Engagement Event
On Thursday 18 January techUK was delighted to host the Crown Commercial Service (CCS) for their latest online supplier engagement session to help start shaping the new Digital Capability for Health 2 Framework Agreement (RM6345 DCfH 2). This agreement, which will replace RM6221, Digital Capability for Health, will continue to provide digital solutions for public health and care sectors.
CCS kicked off the event and introduced themselves, highlighting the fact that they are really interested in hearing thoughts from suppliers in this discovery phase for the new framework.
Key facts
The team ran through some key facts on digital capability for health.
This framework agreement is for the provision of application development and programme delivery for the health and social care sector. The team will be looking to award a space for suppliers who have demonstrable experience of managing unique data, and experience with complex interfaces, integration with different platforms, and technology stacks. The evaluation will take place through the use of award questions which will be part of the ITT pack.
The team would like to grow and broaden the pool of suppliers on the new agreement, but at this stage they do not have a capped figure or clear number in mind.
Suppliers were keen to know what is going to be on DCfH 2 that is currently not on DOS and DSP, and what makes it stand out is the inclusion of the health specific IT stack and the inclusion of additional security standards as part of the specification.
An update on previous supplier engagement
CCS has been running a series of engagement sessions from November 2023 to gather views and feedback from buyers and suppliers around what is working well and what improvements can be made in the future – also exploring the possibility of expanding the scope of this new agreement. They concluded that the intention for DCfH 2 at this stage is to have a single lot which will cover five service provisions including DevOps services and digital definition services.
Attendees then heard about the specifications and the scope of the agreement.
Social Value
CCS took attendees through the approach for applying Social Value to DCFH 2 which includes conducting market engagement to understand Social Value priorities and identifying the most relevant Social Value themes which make the most sense to the supply market selected to be included in the framework specification. They also went through Social Value in Further Competitions and how customers will address Social Value.
Carbon Net Zero, Prompt Payment and Modern Slavery
It is likely that all suppliers will be expected to have a Carbon Zero Plan in place and provided suppliers with further information on the government Carbon Net Zero procurement policy notes.
The Cabinet Office have also released a new Procurement Policy Note for Prompt Payment, further information of which can be found here.
Furthermore, DCfH 2 RM6345 will ensure that supply chains are compliant with regulation on slavery, forced labour and human trafficking. The details can be found here.
Next steps
Suppliers answered a series of questions via Menti before the team went through the next steps and proposed timelines.
Click here to download the slides from the event.
Please see below the recording of the event.
Heather Cover-Kus
Heather Cover-Kus
Heather is Head of Central Government Programme at techUK, working to represent the supplier community of tech products and services to Central Government.
Prior to joining techUK in April 2022, Heather worked in the Economic Policy and Small States Section at the Commonwealth Secretariat. She led the organisation’s FinTech programme and worked to create an enabling environment for developing countries to take advantage of the socio-economic benefits of FinTech.
Before moving to the UK, Heather worked at the Office of the Prime Minister of The Bahamas and the Central Bank of The Bahamas.
Heather holds a Graduate Diploma in Law from BPP, a Masters in Public Administration (MPA) from LSE, and a BA in Economics and Sociology from Macalester College.
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Ellie Huckle
Ellie Huckle
Ellie joined techUK in March 2018 as a Programme Assistant to the Public Sector team and now works as a Programme Manager for the Central Government Programme.
The programme represents the supplier community of technology products and services in Central Government – in summary working to make Government a more informed buyer, increasing supplier visibility in order to improve their chances of supplying to Government Departments, and fostering better engagement between the public sector and industry. To find out more about what we do, how we do this and how you can get involved – make sure to get in touch!
Prior to joining techUK, Ellie completed Sixth Form in June 2015 and went on to work in Waitrose, moved on swiftly to walking dogs and finally, got an office job working for a small local business in North London, where she lives with her family and their two Bengal cats Kai and Nova.
When she isn’t working Ellie likes to spend time with her family and friends, her cats, and enjoys volunteering for diabetes charities. She has a keen interest in writing, escaping with a good book and expanding her knowledge watching far too many quiz shows!
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Austin Earl
Austin Earl
Austin joined techUK’s Central Government team in March 2024 to launch a workstream within education and edtech.
With a career spanning technology, policy, media, events and comms, Austin has worked with technology communities, as well as policy leaders and practitioners in education, central and local government and the NHS.
Cutting his teeth working for Skills Matter, London’s developer community hub, Austin then moved to GovNet Communications where he launched Blockchain Live and the Cyber Security and Data Protection Summit. For the last 3 years he has worked with leaders in education across the state and independent schools sectors, from primary up to Higher education, with a strong research interest in technology and education management.
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Annie Collings
Annie Collings
Annie joined techUK as the Programme Manager for Cyber Security and Central Government in September 2023.
Prior to joining techUK, Annie worked as an Account Manager at PLMR Healthcomms, a specialist healthcare agency providing public affairs support to a wide range of medical technology clients. Annie also spent time as an Intern in an MPs constituency office and as an Intern at the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed.
Annie graduated from Nottingham Trent University, where she was an active member of the lacrosse society.
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