01 Procurement
Tender overview
- Buyer
- SOMERSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
- Status
- Complete
- Procurement method
- Direct award
- Category
- Not supplied
- CPV classification
- Not supplied
- Tender period
- Not supplied — Not supplied
Description
Somerset NHS Foundation Trust awarded a contract to First Data Bank (FDB)UK for the provision of FDB Multilex. Multilex is FDB UK's proprietary software which provides medicines optimisation and clinical decision support for medicines management for the purposes of embedding within the Healthset Programme for Epic electronic health and care record. FDB Multilex drug knowledge base is used in all UK Epic installations and is the only drug knowledge base product available with the core functionality required by encompass. The Authority is relying on egulation 32(2)(b)(ii) as the contract can only be supplied by FBD UK as competition is absent for technical reasons.
This page represents one OCDS contracting process. Notices can be revised over time. Values may be estimates, award values or contract values and should be read with their displayed stage and date.
02 Awards and contracts
Published award records
Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health andCare Record
- Awarded
- 7 July 2026
- Award value
- £2,898,280
- Suppliers
- 1
- Signed contract
- Not supplied
03 Organisations
Buyers, suppliers and other parties
SOMERSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton, UKK23, TA1 5DA, United Kingdom
GB-NHS RH5DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Williams Avenue, Dorchester, Dorset, UKK25, DT1 2 JY, United Kingdom
GB-NHS RBDDORSET HEALTHCARE UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Sentinel House, 4-6 Nuffield Road, Poole, UKK24, BH17 0RB, United Kingdom
GB-NHS RDYFIRST DATABANK UK LTD
Stratus House Emperor Way, Exeter, UKK43, EX1 3QS, United Kingdom
Companies House 01880682 →UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS DORSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST
Management Offices, Poole Hospital, Longfleet Road, POOLE, UKK24, BH15 2JB, United Kingdom
GB-NHS R0DCompanies House links appear only for explicit GB-COH identifiers. BritDB does not create company links from a similar name or address.
04 Provenance
Source for this process
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