Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2017-12-15
Buyer: Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 1290000 GBP

Technical requirements: The NHS Health Check programme is a mandatory public health service for the local authority. It is a systematic vascular risk assessment and management programme to help prevent various cardiovascular diseases (CVD) including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia and kidney disease.
The NHS Health Check programme is a mandatory public health service for the local authority. It is a systematic vascular risk assessment and management programme to help prevent various cardiovascular diseases (CVD) including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia and kidney disease. The check is made up of three key components: risk assessment, risk awareness and risk management.
The programme helps improve population health outcomes and quality of life by reducing the risk of vascular disease in adults attending for an NHS Health Check. It will help identify at an earlier stage, adults with previously undetected health conditions (specifically those that are listed above) not currently being managed in primary care and to signpost /refer to appropriate primary care and lifestyle services.
The NHS Health Check programme is a mandatory public health service for the local authority. It is a systematic vascular risk assessment and management programme to help prevent various cardiovascular diseases (CVD) including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, dementia and kidney disease. The check is made up of three key components: risk assessment, risk awareness and risk management.
The programme helps improve population health outcomes and quality of life by reducing the risk of vascular disease in adults attending for an NHS Health Check. It will help identify at an earlier stage, adults with previously undetected health conditions (specifically those that are listed above) not currently being managed in primary care and to signpost /refer to appropriate primary care and lifestyle services.
Following an open procurement process two tenders were submitted neither of which could fulfill the mandatory requirements of the national Healthchecks programme. The programme requires access to patient personal information which is only available to Wirral General Practitioners subsequently the contract/s have been awarded to companies representing Wirral General Practitioners.
The contracting authority will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar days (when using electronic means) standstill period. The public contracts regulations 2015 (“Regulations”) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly and within the time limits as defined in the above regulations.
For the avoidance of doubt, the contracting authority will not enter into this service contract before 23.12.2017.


Winner: Wirral GP Provider (GPW-FED) Ltd
Award value: 1290000