Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-02-05
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU on behalf of NHS Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33730000 | 85100000: Health services | 85160000: Optician services
Estimated value: 1900000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ESF

Technical requirements: Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group and Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Group jointly wish to invite prospective providers to express their interest for the provision of optometry services.
This invitation to tender provides information pertaining to the procurement for optometry services. The purpose of this procurement is to secure a Service Provider to deliver optometry services to the county of Shropshire (comprising 2 CCGs).
The UK Vision Strategy 2013-2018, promotes collaboration, coordination and integration of the local eye care system between primary, secondary and social care and offers service users a wide choice of geographical locations across the whole county of Shropshire. According to “UK Vision Strategy” sight loss is now a major health issue, affecting about 2 000 000 People in the UK. The vast majority are older people, although an estimated 80 000 working age people and 25 000 children in the UK are affected by sight problems (Keil S. Key statistics. RNIB, 2008).
The objective of this procurement is to procure a service to oversee the delivery of the following optometry schemes within primary care:
— improve eye health and reduce inequalities by providing increased access to eye care in the community,
— utilise the knowledge and skills of primary care optometrists to manage and prioritise the care of the service user and ensure referrals are appropriate and timely,
— reduce the number of visits to hospital eye services and reduce the likely waiting time for the service user,
— ensure more accurate referral information is made available if a referral to hospital eye services is required,
— develop relationships between ophthalmic practitioners, hospital eye services and the Clinical Commissioning Groups,
The CCG’s are looking to appoint a service provider or consortium to deliver this service for a period of 3 years with an optional 2 years extension available.
The successful provider will be required to sign the NHS Standard Contract for the service and accept all terms and conditions.
Light Touch Regime’ services: This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (‘Regulations’). Accordingly, the Contracting Authorities are only bound by those parts of the regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The Contracting Authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the Contracting Authorities are following is set out in the MOI. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.


Winner: Community Health and Eyecare Ltd
Award value: 1900000
Number of bids: 2