PHE - Corporate - ICT - Foodswitch licence agreement via STA

Concepts

• salisbury
• data capture
• george institute for global health
• public health england
• ict
• sta
• foodswitch licence agreement
• phe
• phe's change4life food scanner app
• george institute

Location

Salisbury

Description

Public Health England, an executive agency of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) (hereafter referred to as "Public Health England" or "PHE" also referred to as the "Contracting Authority" or the "Authority" or the "Employer") wishes to award The George Institute for Global Health a contract for PHE's Change4Life Food Scanner app to help parents take control of their children’s snacking.

Total Quantity or Scope

The George Institute for Global Health will source data which are not covered by our supplier and physically go out and document the product information and send us the results. This is a vital part of the Food Scanners data to ensure we have a better experience for our users. The current software has a crowdsourcing functionality within the app, this allows users to take pictures of any products which aren't found within the database and send them through and API to get processed via their team and then sent back to PHE to surface within the app.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 72313000 - Data capture services

Indicators

Legal Justification

The George Institute for Global Health have confirmed that they are the sole supplier / supplier of Food Switch data system and its proprietary algorithms that will be used to provision the requested food attribute data. Therefore, the direct award is based on PCR Reg. 32.2b (ii) which state that; The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:— (ii) competition is absent for technical reasons (Sole supplier statement provided as evidence to state they are the only supplier able to supply the services. We also did a market research and a google search and was unable to find a suitable supplier that can provide this type of product.