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Drug Knowledge Base for Electronic Health and Care Record

Awarded to FIRST DATABANK UK LTD

UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS DORSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST(buyer)

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Published 5 November 2026
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Overview

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract for the provision of FDB Multilex, a proprietary software offering medicines optimisation and clinical decision support for medicines management. The software is to be embedded within the Healthset Programme Epic electronic health and care record. The contract was awarded to First Data Bank UK Ltd on 4 November 2026 for a value of £2,556,297.

Contracting authority

  • UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS DORSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUSTBuyer

    1 live opportunity · 327 awarded contracts

    POOLE, United Kingdom

    GB-NHS: R0D

  • DORSET COUNTY HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

    Buyer

    Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom

    GB-NHS: RBD

  • DORSET HEALTHCARE UNIVERSITY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

    Buyer

    Poole, United Kingdom

    GB-NHS: RDY

  • SOMERSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST

    Buyer

    Taunton, United Kingdom

    GB-NHS: RH5

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Key details

Country
United Kingdom
Status
In delivery
Procedure
Direct award
Rules
Procurement Act 2023
Published
5 November 2026
Classification (CPV)
Software package and information systems

Award outcome

Awarded value
£2,556,297
Award date
4 November 2026
Contract period
17 November 2026 → 31 March 2036
Contract length
9 years 4 months
Winner
  • FIRST DATABANK UK LTD

This contract ends on 31 March 2036.

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About the winner

FIRST DATABANK UK LTD

Based in
Exeter
Public contracts won
13
Across UK and EU notices

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Market context

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£102,000

Median of 11,509 awards in the last 24 months

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UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS DORSET NHS FOUNDATION TRUST in the last 12 months

287

contracts awarded, worth £278,638,319 in total

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  1. Contract

    5 November 2026

  2. Contract

    5 November 2026

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