Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-10-08
Buyer: NHS Wandsworth Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 14000000 GBP

Technical requirements: This is a notice for social and specific services in accordance with Directive 2014/24/EU Article 74. Provision of nursing and carer services for adults within a residential setting.
Provision of nursing and carer services for adults within a residential setting, for patients requiring intermediate care and those entitled to care fully funded by the NHS under the Continuing Healthcare regulations. Key service outcomes are: enhanced quality of life for people with care and support needs; recovery from episodes of ill health or following injury; positive experience of care; treatment and care provided within a safe environment, protected from avoidable harm. The service will ensure flexibility of capacity to meet a broad range of care needs, including some with quite high levels of need.
Recognising its obligations and responsibilities under the NHS (Procurement Patient Choice and Competition)(No 2) Regulations 2013, the contracting authority has assessed the most appropriate route to awarding this contract, having regard to the necessity to secure continuity of these essential patient services and has concluded that the incumbent provider will assure the safest solution and being considered the only technically capable provider at this time.
Whilst a new contract is being entered into with the incumbent provider, it is to replace an existing and long standing contractual arrangement that has been in-perpetuity, without any definitive termination date. This new contract is in effect, a process to vary the existing contractual arrangements to enable the NHS commissioning body to establish nationally required terms and conditions, whilst also establishing a time limited contract term.
The contract being awarded is for an initial 4-year (48-month) provide continuity of service and mitigate risks of delays as during this time the service will be transitioned into a new care home being built (expected in 2 years).
The contracting authority is reserving the right to review service provision after the new build or after the initial term (which ever comes earliest), and if appropriate, to engage with the market to inform the most appropriate process to commission services going forward.
The award replaces an existing and long standing contract with the incumbent provider in order: to introduce specific terms and conditions required by NHS guidance through the use of the NHS standard contract; and to replace what has been an in-perpetuity contractual arrangement with a time limited contract term that will enable a sustainable transition of services to a new care setting.
The contract being awarded is for an initial 4-year (48-month) provide continuity of service and mitigate risks of delays as during this time the service will be transitioned into a new care home being built (expected in 2 years).
The contracting authority is reserving the right to review service provision after the new build or after the initial term (which ever comes earliest), and if appropriate, to engage with the market to inform the most appropriate process to commission services going forward.
The contracting authority reserves the right to extend the contract for up to a further 4 years, i.e. with the potential to run until 31.3.2027.
The stated contract value is for the potential maximum of up to 8 years involving a contract value of circa 1 700 000 GBP per year.


Winner: The Brendoncare Foundation
Award value: 14000000
Number of bids: 1