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Primary and Preventative Health Services - Primary and Preventative Heath Services - Request for Information: RFI - 26 - 2099 - Clinical Appropriateness Tools

Primary and Preventative Health Services

Published: Aug 28, 2026

Updated: Aug 28, 2026

Source: alberta_purchasing

About This Opportunity

This is a consulting contract in the health and medical services and information and communication technology sectors, with a focus on Pharmaceuticals and Laboratory. Located in Canada, North America, this opportunity is open to firms and consortiums. Proposals must be submitted before September 11, 2026.

Published through Alberta Purchasing Connection, a national government procurement portal. Public procurement tenders follow the country's national bidding regulations and may have specific eligibility and documentation requirements for consulting in the health and medical services sector. Consulting assignments are typically evaluated with a strong emphasis on the technical proposal, including the methodology and qualifications of key experts. Shortlisted firms may be invited to submit financial proposals in a second stage. Interested parties should review the full documentation on the original source before submitting their proposal.

Description

This Request for Information (RFI) seeks to gather insights into existing and emerging Clinical Decision Support (CDS) tools that are, or could be, deployed within community EMRs to support clinically appropriate prescribing. The intent is to better understand how such solutions could support clinically appropriate prescribing at the point of care, the technical and integration considerations involved, and whether vendors already have established integrations with community EMRs (either in Alberta or comparable jurisdictions) and how this positions such solutions for deployment within Alberta’s current health system environment. In Alberta, prescribers (physicians, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, registered nurses with prescribing authority, etc.) operate across a heterogeneous digital health landscape. In community settings, numerous electronic medical record (EMR) systems are in use, many of which include embedded clinical decision-support capabilities such as alerts related to potential drug interactions, polypharmacy, duplicate therapies, and dosing considerations. The sophistication and configurability of these tools varies across platforms, and in many cases, alert logic reflects vendor defaults rather than provincially curated, evidence-based rules. Provincial platforms, including Connect Care and Netcare, also provide comparatively sophisticated functionality to support medication-related decision-making, leveraging broader clinical context and system-level data. Together, these existing capabilities highlight that clinical appropriateness alerting is not entirely absent from the current environment. However, the variability across systems, differences in configuration and prioritization, and the risk of duplicative or low-value alerts create challenges for consistency, usability, and impact. This landscape presents both challenges and opportunities for embedding clinical appropriateness supports in a way that is interoperable, scalable, and sensitive to prescriber workflows, while complementing (rather than duplicating) existing functionality. This RFI is not a competitive bid process and will not result in a contract award. Commodity Categories: System or application programming management service, Healthcare Services, Comprehensive health services, Health system evaluation services, Individual health assessment, Diagnoses of symptoms, signs and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings, not elsewhere classified Delivery Region: Alberta

Data provenance

This notice is sourced from Alberta Purchasing Connection and was originally published on August 28, 2026. Last refreshed today. BidsFactory mirrors official procurement notices and links back to the source for full legal text.

About Primary and Preventative Health Services

Primary and Preventative Health Services has issued 9 procurement notices on BidsFactory, including 1 currently open and 2 awarded contracts. Activity concentrates in Health & Medical, Information & Communication Technology, and Transport & Logistics. All notices are published for Canada. Notices are distributed via Alberta Purchasing Connection and CanadaBuys - Government of Canada. Most recent publication: August 28, 2026.

Frequently asked questions about this tender

Who is the contracting authority?

This notice was issued by Primary and Preventative Health Services in Canada. The authority is responsible for evaluating bids, awarding the contract, and managing performance.

What type of contract is this?

This is a Consulting contract in the Health & Medical sector. The classification helps bidders match the opportunity to their qualifications and registered scope of supply.

Where will the contract be performed?

The contract is for delivery in Canada. Foreign bidders should review local registration, taxation, and any in-country presence requirements before submitting.

How can I submit a bid?

Visit Alberta Purchasing Connection to access the full notice, required documents, and submission instructions provided by the contracting authority.

When does this tender close?

The submission deadline is September 11, 2026. You have 15 days left to prepare and submit your proposal to the contracting authority.