Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-05-16
Buyer: NHS Mid Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 33000000 | 33100000 | 33192000 | 33192100 | 39516110
Estimated value: 10331497 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Contracting Authorities (hereafter, all references to ‘the Contracting Authorities’ will mean NHS Mid Essex CCG, NHS Basildon and Brentwood CCG, NHS Thurrock CCG and North East Essex CCG) have awarded 2 x 24-month contracts under 2 lots: one for the lease of dynamic pressure area care mattresses and cushions and one for a managed service for pressure area care mattresses and cushions, both covering North East Essex, Mid Essex, Basildon and Brentwood and Thurrock. The contract value provided in this contract award notice is in aggregate and covers the 2-year term and the 12-month potential extension.
The Contracting Authorities (hereafter, all references to ‘the Contracting Authorities’ will mean NHS Mid Essex CCG, NHS Basildon and Brentwood CCG, NHS Thurrock CCG and North East Essex CCG) have awarded a 24-month contract for the lease of dynamic pressure area care mattresses and cushions covering North East Essex, Mid Essex, Basildon and Brentwood and Thurrock, with a potential extension provision of 12 months. The contract value provided in this contract award notice is in aggregate and covers the 2-year term and the 12-month potential extension. This contract is for the supply of specialist equipment (PAC mattresses and cushions) on a rental basis to patients living in the community based on clinical needs, enabling patients to do tasks they would otherwise be unable to do. It is essential in supporting patients to maintain independence and the health system as a whole because without the equipment, patients would need to be admitted to hospital or care home and discharges from hospital would be delayed.
Option to extend at sole discretion of the Contracting Authorities for a further period of 12 months.
The contract value provided in this contract award notice for Lot 1 is in aggregate and covers the 2-year term and the 12-month potential extension for Lot 1.
The Contracting Authorities (hereafter, all references to ‘the Contracting Authorities’ will mean NHS Mid Essex CCG, NHS Basildon and Brentwood CCG, NHS Thurrock CCG and North East Essex CCG) have awarded a 24-month contract for a managed service for dynamic pressure area care mattresses and cushions (‘the PAC Services’) covering North East Essex, Mid Essex, Basildon and Brentwood and Thurrock, with a potential extension provision of 12 months. The contract value provided in this contract award notice is in aggregate and covers the 2-year term and the 12-month potential extension. This service will ensure that the specialist equipment that is on loan to people living in the community is delivered, fitted, installed, adjusted, repaired/refurbished, collected, decontaminated and recycled. This service is essential in supporting patients to maintain independence and the health system as a whole because without them patients would need to be admitted to hospital or care home and discharges from hospital would be delayed.
Option to extend at sole discretion of the Contracting Authorities for a further period of 12 months.
The contract value provided in this contract award notice for Lot 2 is in aggregate and covers the 2-year term and the 12-month potential extension for Lot 2.
The Contracting Authorities previously issued a voluntary ex-ante transparency notice on 19.3.2019 confirming that the Contracting Authorities consider that they are entitled to use the negotiated procedure without prior publication and award the lawfully permitted contracts in accordance with Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) and 32(2)(c) of the PCR in these circumstances on the basis that:
— the need for the award of the contracts has arisen for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authorities. the contracting authorities must safeguard continuity of provision of Dynamic Pressure Area Care equipment, which and is essential to support patients and the health system as a whole in Essex, and a high quality and safe service for all eligible patients from 1.4.2019,
— given the time available, only the incumbent provider is technically able to deliver the services from 1.4.2019, specifically in light of the unacceptable risk of insufficient time to complete a robust contract mobilisation involving critical mobilisation and transition risks including workforce and a significant ‘swap out’ of some 7 000 existing items of stock in the community, equating to approximately 3 500 patients which is estimated to require between 6-9 months to implement in a robust and safe manner. In the absence a longer transition period, no reasonable alternative or substitute exists. Given the above reasons, Contracting Authorities deem that the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive with negotiated procedure cannot be complied with.


Winner: Talley Group Ltd
Award value: 10331497
Number of bids: 1