Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-06-08
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: 828739 GBP

Technical requirements: Expanded and transformed provision of integrated diabetes specialist services to reduce the number of complications related to diabetes by moving focus to prevention, early identification and improved management approach.
Croydon University Hospital and other health care service locations used by Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.
The existing contract includes within its scope for the provision of district general and associated acute and community sector health care services, including consultant led outpatient services, diagnostic services, elective day-case, surgical and in-patient services and district nursing.
Recent service improvement and redesign has led to the development of an expanded and transformed provision of integrated diabetes specialist services to reduce the number of complications related to diabetes by moving focus to prevention, early identification and improved management approach.
Development of existing consultant led outpatient diabetes services into a new integrated diabetes specialist service that aims to reduce the number of complications related to diabetes by moving focus to prevention, early identification and improved management approach. The additional investment will finance increased healthcare workforce capacity and capability to more deliver more efficient and effective healthcare outcomes for patients. The solution will enable implementation of an integrated care pathway that must necessarily be provided within the existing elective services of the NHS Trust.
Additional investment is being made to the existing contract, through a contract variation procedure (contract modification) to enhance existing healthcare provision already being delivered by the provider, i.e. consultant led diabetes services, to deliver health outcome benefits to patients referred into this diabetes care pathway from primary care.
This notice confirms a modification to an existing contract. The existing contract for general acute healthcare services, held with Croydon Health Services NHS Trust, is being modified to included additional investment to develop a new integrated care pathway.
The contract modification is being enacted as lawfully permitted within Regulation 72(1)(b) in that a change of contractor cannot be made for economic and technical reasons associated with interoperability with existing equipment, services and installations procured under the initial procurement, and that a change of contractor would cause significant inconvenience and substantial duplication of costs for the contracting authority. The modification will enable implementation of an integrated care pathway that must necessarily be provided within the existing elective services of the NHS Trust. The modified contract will avoid duplication of costs associated with organisational and clinical governance and systems infrastructure.
An existing contract is being modified to invest additional resource to enhance the provision of healthcare to patients with diabetes, through the development of a new integrated care pathway. The modification of the contract will enable avoidance of duplicated costs associated with organisational and clinical governance and systems infrastructure.
The district general and acute health care services contract with Croydon Health Services NHS Trust for 2020/21 will have an annual value of in excess of GBP 200 m. The contract modification to develop the new integrated diabetes specialist service will take effect from 1 July 2020. The financial value of the modification for the remaining 9 months of the main contract is GBP 828 739.


Winner: Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
Award value: 828739
Number of bids: 1