Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-05
Buyer: NHS South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (Contact point: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home)
Country: UK
Region: Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85121281 | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85160000: Optician services
Estimated value: 501000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-08-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: To provide an accessible and clinically effective, community based service for the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of defined ophthalmic conditions, which equals or exceeds the quality of comparable services provided by secondary care;
To operated a well-planned and clearly articulated care pathway, delivering safe and evidence-based care, supported by a robust clinical governance framework;
To ensure that referrals are appropriately assessed and that patients are seen by the most appropriate clinician with the relevant skills, right equipment, in a suitable location;
To comply with all relevant waiting times standards and ensure that all stages of the patient's care are delivered in a time-frame suitable to the patient's clinical, emotional and social needs;
To offer services in 2 or more locations, easily accessible to the population of South Gloucestershire.
This is a 36 month contract with the possibility to extend for up to 24 further months subject to commissioners discretion.
There is an option to extend the contract at the end of the initial 3 year period for up to a further 24 months subject to commissioners discretion. There is a likelihood that some additional services may commissioned through the successful bidder over the period of the contract as the national trend is in the growth of demand for specialist eye services, these services are likely to be over and above those services being commissioned as part of this tender.
Parent company and other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances, see the invitation to tender for further details.
The Contracting Authority intends to voluntarily observe the award decision notices provisions and 10 day standstill period described in Regulation 87 of the 2015 Regulations. Unsuccessful tenderers and applicants will receive scores and reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the tenderer/application was unsuccessful. Deadline for lodging of appeals should be in accordance with Regulation 87 and Regulation 92 of the 2015 Regulations.
The contracting authority intends to observe the provisions and 10 day standstill period described in the Public Contracting Regulations 2015.
Unsuccessful tenderers and applicants will receive scores and reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the tenderer/applicant was unsuccessful. Deadlines for lodging appeals should be in accordance with the Regulations.

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