1. Who is your current system supplier for your Patient Level Costing system?
2. When does that contract expire (not including optional extensions)?
3. Is it a cloud-hosted or on-premises (hosted on trust servers) solution?
4. If it is on-premises, do you have a dedicated costing server and how what is the estimated annual cost of this including IT support, resilience etc.
5. Do you use the system to produce internal PLICS/SLR reporting as well as National Cost Collection?
6. What is the frequency of any internal PLICS/SLR reporting? e.g., Quarterly
7. Does your PLICS system include in-built analytics and dashboarding tools? a. If so, are these your primary tool for analysing and presenting PLICS information?
8. Does your PLICS system require a third-party reporting/BI tool? If so, which one do you use?
9. Does this tool incur an additional cost on top of the PLICS software. Is there a limit on additional users and/or do additional users incur additional licence costs?
