The authority intends to procure a replacement Hospital Pharmacy and medicines management system for all of the health boards and Trusts in Wales. This procurement shall establish a single supplier master services agreement for the services, under which each organisation shall place a deployment order to the contractor for the services agreed within the master services agreement.

This procurement sets out to secure the provision of functionality required for a modern hospital medicines management service that administers over 289 000 000 GBP of hospital medicines each year.

The new system will need to be dm+d compliant to accommodate the new structures in dm+d and the introduction of SNOMED CT coding. A core requirement for the new system will be the ability to integrate with other clinical systems.

The system will need to be compliant with the European Union Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD)or such continuation or replacement of it as may be in force after Brexit.

The initial term of this agreement shall be for a period of 7 years with the option to extend this agreement by a further period of up to 3 years in increments of no less than 12 months at the discretion of the authority.