Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-12-15
Buyer: NHS South West London Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 36842000 GBP

Technical requirements: Provision of community services for patients within Sutton localities. These service support people to stay well in the community, manage their own health with the right support and avoid stays in hospital. Services work across a wide range of health centres, hospitals, GP surgeries, children’s centres, local council facilities and in community settings — including in people’s homes.
These service support people to stay well in the community, manage their own health with the right support and avoid stays in hospital. Services work across a wide range of health centres, hospitals, GP surgeries, children’s centres, local council facilities and in community settings — including in people’s homes.
The interim contract is for a period of 12 months, with rights reserved to extend for up to a further 12 months (potential 24 months in total). The contract value shown of GBP 36 842 000 is the potential value across 24 months. The 12-month contract value is GBP 18 241 000.
Taking account of the unprecedented impact of Covid-19, the normal commissioning process has been disrupted and it is no longer possible, both in terms of timescales and in terms of service continuity risk, to conduct a competitive procurement for these services ahead of a new contract start date on 1 April 2021.
NHS South West London CCG, newly formed from April 2020 will need reasonable time following its current response priorities to Covid-19, to assess what future arrangement of community services will best service the patients across the Borough of Sutton and then how these new requirements can be put into place. In the interm, the CCG is working collaboratively with key local NHS and local authority system organisations to oversee a development of the community services, including the piloting of new pathways of care within the current level of investment available.
The incumbent provider is assessed to be the only provider capable of ensuring a continuation of the range and level of service provision currently in place and being delivered sustainably within the finite financial resources available through contract price.
Observing its obligations under the NHS (Procurement Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013, NHS SWL CCG has assessed the appropriateness to award an interim contract directly through a non-competitive process to the incumbent provider(s), recognising an immediate need to ensure continuity of essential patient services whilst a full review takes place to agree the future provision of these services.
In response to the corona virus global pandemic the commissioners have taken the decision to roll forward the Sutton Health and Care Alliance contract adding the local Primary Care Networks as partners in the strategic and operational decision making of community services going forward, involving:
— Sutton GP Services Limited, of Wallington Medical Centre, 52 Mollison Drive, Wallington SM6 9BY (Sutton GP); https://suttongpservices.org.uk/
— London Borough of Sutton, of Civic Offices, St Nicholas Way, Sutton SM1 1EA (Council); and https://www.sutton.gov.uk/
— South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust, of Springfield University Hospital, 61 Glenburnie Road, London SW17 7DJ (SWLStG); https://www.swlstg.nhs.uk/
As such, the supplier will engage with and work under the collaborative direction of the above organisations.


Winner: Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Award value: 36842000
Number of bids: 1