Published date: 22 November 2024
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Closing: 13 January 2025, 12pm
Contract summary
Industry
Research and development services and related consultancy services - 73000000
Location of contract
North West
Value of contract
£0 to £3,345,000
Procurement reference
NICE EAG25-27
Published date
22 November 2024
Closing date
13 January 2025
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
1 July 2025
Contract end date
31 March 2027
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
What is an open procedure (above threshold)?
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
NICE is seeking to commission external assessment groups (EAGs) which will provide a range of services to support its programmes and related activities.
Suppliers can bid for one or more Lots.
NICE will consider bids from multidisciplinary EAGs with knowledge and expertise in health technology assessment.
NICE will consider proposals from consortia or networks of organisations meeting the selection criteria and encourages potential suppliers to explore collaborations that will result in the offer of a comprehensive range of services.
Main activities of the EAGs in each framework
NICE commissions EAGs to support its guidance development programmes in the following key areas and tasks:
Lot 1 - Clinical and Economic Evidence Assessment
Including: critical appraisal of clinical and economic evidence to support the development of NICE outputs; evidence synthesis; de novo economic modelling and critiquing and revising existing models; systematic review and meta-analysis; supporting scoping of evaluation topics; user preference assessment or structured elicitation, confirmation and review of regulatory status to the evaluation programmes.
Lot 2 - Technical and Decision Support
Including: providing advanced methodological and analytical advice and support to NICE's technical teams and committees on all guideline and technology types that are in remit for NICE, including Health Technology Evaluation (HTE) outputs (pharmaceuticals, diagnostics, medical device and digital technologies, combination products etc.) and Guidelines topics covering public health, social and clinical areas. This includes providing evidence synthesis, data analytics, complex decision analytical modelling and health economic support; providing a technical rapid response service and quality assurance input for guidance products; development and provision of guidance methods training, covering evidence synthesis, data analytics, decision analytical modelling and health economics.
Lot 3 - Evidence Generation to support Access
Including: Evidence generation using existing registers or databases, feasibility studies, data protocol development, pilot studies; data collection and active surveillance; data linkage and complex modelling and/or analyses; register set up and close.
Lot 4 Research governance & ethics support
Including: advice on research governance and ethics support including access to a research ethics committee.
How to apply
Follow the instructions given in the description or the more information section.
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