Large, centrally managed IT contracts in the NHS have not always received good press, which is why it’s great to hear about those that succeed. With the NHS Digital Mapping Agreement now at its end, Dotted Eyes is celebrating the successful delivery of a high quality service to over 130 NHS organisations over the last four years in partnership with the Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC).
The Digital Mapping Agreement was brokered by the HSCIC to enable the NHS to gain access to geographic data in a ready-to-use format at a minimum cost. In 2008 Dotted Eyes, one of the UK’s leading GIS solution houses, was awarded the contract by the HSCIC through an OJEU procurement.
During its four year life-cycle Dotted Eyes delivered over 3.5 terabytes of mapping data to over 130 NHS organisations. All of this data was delivered fully optimised for each individual organisation so that they could use it immediately and extract as much value as possible from the service.
Updates to the data were delivered on a quarterly basis for many products, meaning that over 700 deliveries were made on time and on budget.
To ensure service quality was consistently high, it was agreed at the onset that it would be monitored and guided by the Steering Committee, facilitated by the HSCIC. The quality of service proved to be of such a high standard that no penalty points were awarded throughout the whole contract.
With the Digital Mapping agreement now at a close and superseded by the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA), the last Steering Committee meeting was recently held to agree on the final elements of the migration to the PSMA.
Ben Allan, MD of Dotted Eyes, commented “This has been a fantastic success. To improve, customise and deliver so much data in such a seamless and faultless manner has been a real triumph. It’s a great example of how the public and private sector can work together to successfully deliver a common goal.”
HSCIC chief executive Tim Straughan said: “High quality, timely data is absolutely vital for organisations to make effective decisions and ultimately benefit patient care. This contract has been an example of where innovation through partnership can deliver secure, relevant and consistent information to multiple organisations; supporting intelligent planning and delivery.”
To find out more, please contact Dotted Eyes on info@dottedeyes.com or +44 (0) 121 232 8000.