# \(NU/1376\) Provision of Services for a Cloud-Based Trusted Research Platform

> Contract award record from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Newcastle University](/buyers/newcastle-university/contract-awards)
- Contract winner: Aimes Management Services
- Award value: £180,000
- Tender value: £310,000
- Award date: 16 July 2018
- Published: 16 August 2018
- Contract start: 30 July 2018
- Contract end: 16 October 2018
- Stage: awarded
- Procurement category: services
- Notice ID: 7736cd0b-0557-45d1-b34e-ddac8a8f1aad-235518
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-624389ef-9efb-4af0-b4fd-c71e15cdb380

## Description

The Connected Health Cities \(North East and North Cumbria\) Project - CHC NENC - requires a secure and trusted data environment within which to acquire, process, share and analyse health and care data/information from Hospitals, GP practices, community and social care settings, and 3rd sector organisations in the NE and North Cumbria\. Central elements of the infrastructure to be procured are an ARK \(i\.e\. an analytic platform providing a trusted research environment\) and a Health Information Exchange \(a middleware structure that will integrate and transmit data to and from all data nodes in the system\)\. This proposed combination of an ARK and an HIE gives the project its name "ARCHIE"\. The ARCHIE project aims to provide proof of concept of key elements and information transfer nodes in this system, thereby facilitating the future vision of a region-wide Health and Care Information Services for the North East and North Cumbria\. This future vision is widely known as the Great North Care Record \(GNCR\)\.

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## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/7736cd0b-0557-45d1-b34e-ddac8a8f1aad-235518)