Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-02-04
Buyer: NHS Hillingdon Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 1460000 GBP

Technical requirements: Provision of a community dermatology service for patients within Hillingdon CCG. This is a ‘one-stop’ multidisciplinary consultant-led tier 3 clinical assessment and treatment service (CATS). The service treats conditions that cannot be managed by GPs in primary care (i.e. tier 3 dermatology conditions) (Tier 1 and 2 are to be managed by GPs in primary care) and does not cover the tier 4 (cases requiring hospital facility for managing them). It accepts referrals and treat patients of all ages. However, the service excludes any surgical procedures for children under the age of 16, for which patients must be referred to secondary care.
A direct award of an interim block contract for a period of 6 months to enable the CCG to bridge the gap in service until an integrated dermatology service within its Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) contract is mobilised.
Rights are also reserved however to extend this 6 month interim contract for up to a further 12 months should the need arise due to wider system delays in implementing the ICP model.
Recognising its obligations and responsibilities under the NHS (Procurement Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013, the CCG 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.
Direct award of an interim contract to the incumbent provider to ensure continuity of essential health services to local patients to enable a transition period until the service is replaced by a new integrated dermatology service to be provided within the new model of an integrated care partnership (ICP) across Hillingdon. This is a 6-month contract, but with rights reserved to extend up to a further 12 months should this become necessary due to wider system delays.
A direct award of an interim block contract for a period of 6 months to enable the CCG to bridge the gap in service until an integrated dermatology service within its Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) contract is mobilised.
Rights are also reserved however to extend this 6-month interim contract for up to a further 12 months should the need arise due to wider system delays in implementing the ICP model.
Recognising its obligations and responsibilities under the NHS (Procurement Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013, the CCG 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.
The value of the 6-month interim contract is 488 000 GBP. The stated of 1 460 000 GBP value relates to the potential overal value should there the need arise to extend past this 6 months, upward to a further 12-months.


Winner: Omnes Healthcare Ltd
Award value: 1460000
Number of bids: 1