Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) - Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board

The purpose of this Notice is to inform the market of the intention of NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (HWE ICB) to award a contract to its incumbent provider, Healthcare Gateway, to continue to deliver the Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) across the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (HWE ICB). The proposed new contract will start on 1st January 2024 and will end on 31st December 2024. The value of the new contract is £298,331.57 (inclusive of VAT). A contract award notice was published confirming the previous award of services to 31st May 2023 (reference 2023/S 000-022904). The total cumulative spend since the contract started is £800,339.62 (inclusive of VAT and excluding the value of this new proposed contract). The Shared Care Record (ShCR) is used across the Integrated Care System (ICS) to facilitate the sharing of clinical information for the purposes of direct care. Primary Care data from our GP Practices was one of the first datasets that the ICB enabled into the ShCR. This is done via the Healthcare Gateway Medical Interoperability Gateway (MIG) which presents the key GP data into the ShCR for others to see. It is a critical data stream which is evidenced by the high usage data across all datasets being provided by the MIG with an average of over 800,000 transactions per month. We have undertaken some research into other solutions and have concluded that the MIG is the only available tool which facilitates the sharing of GP data in the way in which it is required. There is no other product currently that offers the functionality and service provision of the MIG. Findings have identified that switching to an alternative provision could result in significant degradation of service and less access to data than we currently surface within the ShCR.