Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-01-09
Buyer: NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85120000: Medical practice services
Estimated value: 1400000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-01-26
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking a provider for primary medical services at the Steeple Bumpstead Surgery, the services are advertised as a Branch Surgery. The Steeple Bumpstead Surgery is situated in the village of Steeple Bumpstead in Braintree district, Essex, England. The patient list has an even split of male and female patients with more patients aged 45-70 years and less patients aged 0-9 years and 25-44 years than the CCG and England averages. The current weighted list size is 2,454.80 as of the 1 October 2017. Services to be provided:
— Core opening hours and service delivery from 8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday (except statutory bank and public holidays). The full scope of the service can be found in the draft service specification available at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home.
NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking a provider for primary medical services at the Steeple Bumpstead Surgery, the services are advertised as a Branch Surgery. The Steeple Bumpstead Surgery is situated in the village of Steeple Bumpstead in Braintree district, Essex, England. The patient list has an even split of male and female patients with more patients aged 45-70 years and less patients aged 0-9 years and 25-44 years than the CCG and England averages. The current weighted list size is 2,454.80 as of 1 October 2017. Services to be provided:
— Core opening hours and service delivery from 8 a.m. – 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday (except statutory bank and public holidays) West Essex CCG is looking for a patient-centred approach to care delivery that is user friendly and culturally sensitive and encompasses national and local public health targets. We are also looking for providers who can demonstrate a willingness to deliver a number of key design principles e.g. improving access and promoting prevention and self-care, as part of core service delivery. The full scope of the service can be found in the draft service specification available at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home
The provider will be needed to provide the full range of primary medical services from 1 June 2018. Following responses to stakeholder engagement, the commissioner will be contracting for the services using; the NHS General Medical Services (GMS); or the NHS Personal Medical Services (PMS); or the NHS Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) contract. The contract form will be dependent on the type of existing contract held by the successful bidder. Subject to this contract form, the contract period will be an initial 3 years with the option to extend by up to a further 2 years. Based on current patient list and scope of services the annual contract value is £280k per annum (excluding set-up costs). Any future contract value is expected to be in line with any rise or fall in the patient list size, as may be the case. The total value including all options, set-up costs and possible extensions is £1.4m. This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central & West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the commissioners.
Subject to the contract form, the contract period will be an initial 3 years with the option to extend by up to a further 2 years.
The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77). The Open procedure timeframe has been reduced from 30 days to 21 days due to circumstances outside of the commissioners’ control.
Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the "current tenders" list on the e-procurement portal (In-tend) https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home.
In order to submit a bid, you will need to register on the e-procurement portal and "express an interest" and then complete all necessary questions as specified within the documents. On registration, please include at least 2 contacts to allow for access to the portal in times of absence. The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77). The tendering process will be conducted in accordance with the requirements and flexibilities provided by Articles 74 to 76 of the Directive, and Regulations 74 to 76 of the Regulations. The authority will run a transparent tender process, treating all bidders equally. For the avoidance of doubt, the authority will not be bound by the Regulations or the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these services. Neither the inclusion of a bidder selection stage, nor the use of any language or terms found in the Directive or Regulations, nor the description of the procedure voluntarily adopted by the authority ("Open", "Restricted", "Competitive Procedure with Negotiation", "Competitive Dialogue" or any other description), nor any other indication, shall be taken to mean that the authority intends to hold itself bound by the Directive or Regulations, save by the provisions applicable to services coming within the scope of Annex XIV of the Directive/Schedule 3 of the Regulations. The contracting authority intends to voluntarily observe the award decision notices provisions and 10 day standstill period described in Regulation 86 of the Regulations. Unsuccessful bidders will receive scores and reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the bidder/application was unsuccessful. Deadline for lodging of appeals should be in accordance with Regulation 87 and Regulation 91 of the Regulations.


Award value: 1400000