Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-02-14
Buyer: Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 2462332 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This contract will support the creation of a combined respiratory airways programme, including audits for COPD and asthma. It therefore includes the continued delivery of a national clinical audit of COPD care provision and outcomes in England and Wales and the addition of Scotland to the programme. The successful provider will build on the successes and learning established by the audit to date. The programme will additionally incorporate national clinical audits of adult and paediatric asthma care provision and outcomes in England, Scotland and Wales.
This contract will support the creation of a combined respiratory airways programme, including audits for COPD and asthma. It therefore includes the continued delivery of a national clinical audit of COPD care provision and outcomes in England and Wales and the addition of Scotland to the programme. The successful provider will build on the successes and learning established by the audit to date. The programme will additionally incorporate national clinical audits of adult and paediatric asthma care provision and outcomes in England, Scotland and Wales. Full details of the Authority's requirements are set out in the Specification in Annex B1 of Section B.
— the ability to engage actively with patient and carer groups; experience of patient and public involvement,
— methodological and statistical expertise and experience to inform, data collection, data cleaning, analysis and interpretation of the data,
— information security/management skills including understanding/ experience of patient level data linkage and sound knowledge of information governance and procedures for gaining permissions for data processing,
The contract is for an initial period of 3 years at a maximum total budget of GBP 2 463 189 excluding VAT and bids exceeding this limit may be rejected.
However there is potential to add primary care for England and/or Scotland into the programme. This may or may not elicit additional funding. Therefore the value of the contract being tendered is GBP 2 463 189 in the first instance, to a maximum value of up to GBP 3 903 189 excl VAT with the inclusion of primary care for England and/or Scotland.
There is also potential to extend the contract for a possible additional 2 years, subject to the availability of funding and an assessment by HQIP on the quality of delivery of the programme. Including this extension as well as the inclusion of primary care for England and/or Scotland would mean that the contract value over 5 years would be GBP 6 505 315 excluding VAT.
NB: Bidders should submit their Schedule of Offer based on providing the audit for the baseline ‘core’ delivery for the initial 3 years only (maximum total budget of GBP 2 463 189 excluding VAT).
Please follow the link to view the specification and to formally express your interest in this contract opportunity. NB: Potential providers must complete the Supplier Registration Form on the e-procurement system before they can access the Invitation to Tender (ITT) which is a separate event. The deadline for submission of Tenders is the same as Expressions of Interest.
Statistical and methodological support; Provision of the bespoke web-tool required for all secondary care and pulmonary rehabilitation audits; Extraction and co-ordination of the Welsh primary care audit (COPD and asthma); Delivery of patient focus groups, the patient panel and other patient engagement activities.


Winner: The Royal College of Physicians
Award value: 2462332
Number of bids: 1