Basic Information

Reference Number

00003739223

Issuing Organization

Provincial Health Services Authority BC

Solicitation Type

NOI - Notice of Intent (Informal)

Solicitation Number

PHSA 12790

Title

PHSA 12790 Genomics-specific Practice Tool

Source ID

SCRIBE

Details

Location

British Columbia

Purchase Type

Not Stated

Dates

Publication

2023/09/26 11:13:00 AM EDT

Closing Date

2023/10/06 05:00:00 PM EDT

Contact Information

Yidan Song

yidan.song@phsa.ca

Description

Notice of Intent to Direct Award

Issued: September 25, 2023
File # PHSA 12790
NOI Title: Genomics-specific Practice Tool
Provincial Health Services Authority

Notice is hereby given that Provincial Health Service Authority (the “Health Authority”), intends to directly award a Contract to the following supplier for the supply of a Genomics-specific Practice Tool for BC Women’s Hospital for a term of six (6) year at an estimated value of $1,245,078.00.

Gene 42 Inc. o/a PhenoTips
100 College St #310,
Toronto, ON, Canada
M5G 1L5

In accordance with applicable trade agreements, PHSA has chosen not to proceed with a competitive process for the following reason:

the goods or services can be supplied only by the selected supplier and no alternative or substitute exists for the following reason:

Due to an absence of competition for technical reasons

Rationale
PhenoTips is a Clinical application or software used to facilitate the work of medical genetics and genomics department. It can store complex and comprehensive family histories, clinical data on the patient and results of complex genetics and genomics testing in a searchable format. This tool would be embedded in CST Cerner supporting the establishment of a provincial genomic care stream and utilize available genome data.
PhenoTips is the only solution in the market that can support with:
1) Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) data mining i.e. backed deep phenotyping with error-tolerant predictive search
2) NLP Functionality
This tool would be embedded in CST Cerner supporting the establishment of a provincial genomic care stream and utilize available genome data.

Vendors who wish to challenge this decision should submit a detailed written objection for the attention of Yidan Song, IMIT Buyer, by email before 2:00pm Pacific Time, October 06, 2023 PHSA will review any and all issues received by this date and provide due consideration to each objection.
Please Reference File: # PHSA 12790 on all written correspondence.

Disclaimer All amendments to the associated notice, including amended documents, plans and specifications (where applicable), are issued on bcbid.gov.bc.ca. MERX asks that you refer to bcbid.gov.bc.ca notice for these amendments. MERX stipulates that potential bidders may also be required to register with the buying authority as a bidder/plan taker. The contact information can be found within the notice abstract.