Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2016-04-23
Buyer: Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
Country: UK
Region: Outer London
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 33191000 | 85110000: Hospital and related services
Estimated value: 1989000 GBP

Technical requirements: The provision of a modern and efficient equipment sterilisation and decontamination service in respect of surgical equipment, together with the repair and maintenance of all surgical equipment and equipment processed under the contract for a period of 9 months, with the potential to extend by (up to) a further 3 months. This is notice of the modification to the existing contract. See Section VI.2) for additional information.
As per Section VI.2) above, the award of a contract pursuant to the SSD procurement process (see Contract Notice 2014/S 151-271711) has been abandoned as, due to external factors, the current procurement process no longer meet the Trust's service requirements. This has been communicated to bidders and candidates in that process. The contract award this notice refers to is an interim contract for sterile services between the Trust and its current provider in order to ensure continuity of service while the imminent procurement process to identify a longer term provider of SSD services is conducted. As detailed in VI.2) above, to award this interim contract to another provider would cause the Trust significant inconvenience due to the nature of the services which often involves high set up and decommissioning costs which are passed through to the Trust. It would also result in substantial duplication of costs in respect of running an interim procurement process for this contract alongside the main procurement for sterile services provision and the cost to the Trust in terms of both service implementation and integrating a new provider of the services on a short term basis.
Following the abandonment of Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust (the Trust)'s current Sterile Services procurement (see Contract Notice 2014/S 151-271711) this interim 9 month contract (with an option to extend by up to 3 months if necessary) has been awarded to the incumbent provider of those services (Synergy Health Managed Services) in order to ensure continuity of service whilst a new procurement process to identify a longer term provider of SSD services is conducted by the Trust. This is necessary as an award of a contract pursuant to the recent SSD procurement process (see Contract Notice 2014/S 151-271711) has been abandoned as, due to external factors, the current procurement process no longer meet the Trust's service requirements. This has been communicated to bidders and candidates in the abandoned process.
To award this interim contract to another provider would cause the Trust significant inconvenience due to the nature of the services which often involves high set up and decommissioning costs which are passed through to the Trust. It would also result in substantial duplication of costs in respect of running an interim procurement process for this contract alongside the main procurement for sterile services provision and the cost to the Trust in terms of both service implementation and integrating a new provider of the services on a short term basis.
The CPV and NUTS codes for the extended contract remain the same as does the description of the contract. The total value of the interim contract (the modification) is 1 989 000 GBP (excluding VAT). This value includes the full 3 months extension option. The option to extend will only be utilised (and for the minimum period necessary) if the contract for the longer term SSD contract has not been awarded at the 9 month point.


Winner: Synergy Health Managed Services Limited