PHSA 12790 Genomics-specific Practice Tool

Solicitation number BCPHSA_12790

Publication date

Closing date and time 2023/10/06 17:00 EDT


    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 to yidan.song@phsa.ca 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.

    Contract duration

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    Trade agreements

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    Contact information

    Contracting organization

    Organization
    Provincial Health Services Authority (Incl. BCCSS)
    Contracting authority
    Yidan Song
    Email
    yidan.song@phsa.ca
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    Summary information

    Notice type
    Other
    Language(s)
    English