Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-12-17
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, C&C, Defence Medical Services (DMS)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85121200: Specialist medical services
Estimated value: 3000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-01-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The requirement is for global medical support provision overseas to care for service personnel deployed on operations and short term deployments under Front Line Commands (FLC). The contractor shall provide a registration-free medical service for up to 2 500 sponsored personnel accessed through a dedicated telephone number in an assistance centre. Capability increases may be sought for up to a maximum of 5 000 personnel during the contract period.
(iv) access to specialist opinions in the major clinical areas for surgical procedures and inpatient care;
The requirement is for commercial medical support provision overseas to care for service personnel deployed on operations and short term deployments under Front Line Commands (FLC). The contractor shall provide a registration-free medical service for up to 2 500 sponsored personnel accessed through a dedicated telephone number in an assistance centre. Capability increases may be sought for up to a maximum of 5 000 personnel during the contract period.
(i) a dedicated 24 hours per day, 7 day a week service which will provide one point of access for all Users covered by this contract;
(ii) a General Medical Council (GMC) registered doctor(s) with at least 5 years of appropriate experience to deliver emergency medical treatment advice and clinical triage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week;
(iii) the ability to coordinate medical emergencies on behalf of the authority, including medical evacuation by ground or air means, to an appropriate medical facility;
(iv) organise hotel bookings and patient transfer journeys in order to continue clinically appropriate patient pathways;
(v) contractor employees that are involved in the delivery or facilitation of care, regardless of their global location, adhere to the UK Caldicott principles.
(iv) access to specialist opinions in the major clinical areas for surgical procedures and inpatient care;
The authority has the right, at its sole discretion, to extend the contract term for a period of up to 24 months.
A financial assessment will be undertaken on the supplier’s financial status. An overall pass/fail judgement will be made after considering areas such as turnover, profit, net assets, liquidity, gearing and capacity. This assessment will include the parent company, where applicable. An independent financial assessment obtained from a reputable credit rating organisation may be utilised as part of this process.
The authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by a security aspects letter, the authority reserves the right to amend the terms of the security aspects letter to reflect any changes in national law or government policy whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies or otherwise.
Potential suppliers must note the mandatory requirement for electronic trading using the contracting, purchasing and finance (CP&F) electronic procurement tool. All payments for contractor deliverables under the contract shall only be made via CP&F. You can find details on CP&F at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/mod-contractingpurchasing-and-finance-e-procurement-system.
Your attention is drawn to the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (TUPE), as amended and/or the service provision change (Protection of Employment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2006, as amended from time to time. The authority would be neither transferor nor transferee of the employees in the circumstances of any contract awarded as a result of this invitation and it is your responsibility to consider whether or not TUPE applies to this re-let and to tender accordingly. Notwithstanding this, you will wish to note that it is the authority's view that TUPE is unlikely to be applicable if this invitation to tender results in a contract being placed as the contractor currently undertaking this task has informed the authority that no employees are in scope to transfer.
Tender Board Chair and Secretary at JFC Commercial Tender Board; Coltman House, DMS Whittington, Lichfield, WS14 9PY.


Award value: 3000000