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<p>The Department is the contracting authority for two consecutive framework agreements
on which The Phoenix Partnership (TPP) has been appointed as a supplier, and awarded
call-off contracts. These frameworks are the <em>GP Systems of Choice</em> (GPSoC),
from 2014, and the <em>GP IT Futures framework agreement</em> (GPITF FA), which succeeded
the GPSoC in 2020. The GPITF FA is the main contractual framework to supply IT systems
and services to general practices (GPs) and associated organisations in England. The
GPITF FA is operationally managed by NHS England, and the relevant contracting authorities
under the call-off contracts are the individual integrated care boards, who contract
on behalf of GPs.</p><p>In addition to managing the GPITF FA on behalf of the Department,
NHS England is the contracting authority on three active contracts with TPP for: GP
IT development and compliance; provision of Point of Care services to the NHS England
Vaccination Programme; and provision of IT services to residential places of detention
under the Health and Justice Information Systems contract.</p><p>The UK Health Security
Agency (UKHSA) has a statutory requirement to report on the performance of the national
immunisation programmes, and in June 2022, TPP was awarded a contract to extract this
data directly from GPs' systems for the UKHSA, with a successor contract being awarded
for the same work in October 2023. All Government contracts are awarded fairly and
transparently, in line with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. All decisions on
contracts are rigorously scrutinised to assess a company’s ability to perform and
deliver the best value for money for the taxpayer.</p>
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