Current procurement opportunities
Please see below current procurement opportunities.
Infographics Reporting Tool
Over the last few years, the GMC has invested in market leading, enterprise-level business solutions to deliver robust and effective information systems to our internal and external end users.
This has included the implementation of a comprehensive data warehouse system, which is based on the Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) platform. The GMC’s data warehouse supports a wide variety of complex reporting capabilities, delivering management information through dashboards and ad-hoc query tools.
Whilst our data warehouse solution continues to provide an important and effective service, it is recognised that there are a number of capability limitations that are impacting our ability to effectively analyse the wide variety of data sources that we have access to. These capabilities limitations can be summarised as follows:
The ability to easily analyse ad-hoc data sources (typically spreadsheets), performing cross-analysis against the structured data held in our core systems.
The ability to easily generate graphical visualizations (charts, geographical maps etc.) using data contained within our core systems and / or unstructured data (spreadsheets) referred to in the previous bullet.
The ability for non-technical end users to publish dynamic, interactive charts using live data to the Internet, through the GMC's web pages.
We are therefore looking to implement a reporting solution that will complement our existing reporting solutions in order to deliver the capabilities outlined above.
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Provision of electronic marking services
The GMC is responsible for ensuring that International Medical Graduates (IMGs) who wish to obtain registration with a licence to practice medicine in the UK have the necessary skills and knowledge. To determine whether IMGs have the skills and knowedge, the GMC run Professional and Linguistic Assessments Board (PLAB) examinations. The PLAB test is in two parts; Part 1 is a written single best answer examination and Part 2 is an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) consisting of 14 stations plus one or more pilot stations.
This project relates to the Part 2 examination, the OSCE. The GMC schedules PLAB Part 2 tests days in advance and runs three circuits on each day with 16 candidates attending each circuit. The current system uses pre-printed marking sheets, one sheet per candidate per station, that the examiner completes by shading in the appropriate lozenges.
The GMC would like to replace the paper marking sheets used in the current process with an electronic marking system that enables the examiners to electronically enter the cores for each candidate as they pass through the stations. The system should then use the scores entered to calculate the results for each candidate and produce statistics to help improve the PLAB 2 OSCE examination and its management.
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Provison of IS Infrastructure and Application Monitoring & Management
Currently the GMC IS Infrastructure Team use a number of products and bespoke scripts for monitoring and alerting and are keen to consolidate.
Some applications have limited monitoring, making it difficult to troubleshoot when issues arise and there is currently a limited amount of historic usage data available to allow for trend/spike analysis.
Key Project Objectives
To reduce the number of products and bespoke scripts used for monitoring
To improve system monitoring and troubleshooting capability.
Identify and resolve issues before they impact users.
Improve business productivity by helping to avoid unplanned system outages.
Capture of historic data to enable root cause analysis after an incident has occurred.
To have a consistent process for generating alerts and for the alerts to be meaningful.
The chosen product should require minimal infrastructure for itself.
The ability to create and play user journeys to monitor performance and address concerns when users report that a particular application is running slowly.
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Provision of cleaning services
The GMC is to tender for the provision of cleaning services which includes daily office cleaning; cleaning of tribunal hearing rooms; timed clinical cleaning of the Clinical Assessment Centre; periodical cleaning of carpets and windows; Pest control; horticultural plant maintenance; specialist cleaning of the comms room and data centres and confidential waste management
The mix of services required may differ slightly between sites. The provider will have the capability and suitable coverage to service all the sites within the GMC property portfolio.
The GMC reserves the right to withdraw individual services from the tender process.
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Provision of catering services
The GMC is to tender for the provision of catering services to include; supplies for staff kitchens, hot drink stations, water coolers and vending machines, provision of lunches for hearings at our Tribunal Centre, lunches at the Clinical Assessment Centre, hospitality and support for GMC staff meetings, Council meetings and other high profile events.
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Provision of internal office move services
The General Medical Council are seeking to award a contract for internal office move services relating to the GMC property portfolio over a period of 3 years. This requirement will also include some move services between GMC sites.
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