FDP Marketplace

This RFI relates to the third planned part of NHS England’s federated data platform procurement:
Marketplace. The federated data platform will connect existing IT systems, making it easier for staff to access the information they need in a safe and secure environment, and provide NHS trusts and ICSs with a set of core capabilities and nationally developed solutions. The marketplace element will enable the creation and delivery of use cases and products by other suppliers and subsequent publishing of operational products and solutions supporting the use cases. . Marketplace is expected to enable a multi-vendor landscape for the FDP Programme, driving innovation across the NHS and reducing duplication of developing data products. The core functions of the marketplace are to:

• publish and share solutions – A solution exchange for publishing and sharing curated solutions that use FDP data, created both within and outside of the NHS ecosystem.
• Discover and download solutions – A catalogue to find published solutions and the mechanism to download them within their local NHS environment.
• Incentivise publishers – Publishers can be incentivised to encourage wider use of their solutions.

NHS England expects to fund the Marketplace to deliver these capabilities, however, it is keen, as outlined in pages 4 and 5 of the RFI, to explore ways in which the Marketplace may become self-sufficient over time; either as a whole stand-alone Marketplace, or for certain functions of the Marketplace.