Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-07-20
Buyer: NHS Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000
Estimated value: 5333543 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Contract for Primary Medical Care Provision for Station Surgery, Leyland (NHS Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group)
This notice is to notify the market of the contract award for the primary medical care provision at Station Surgery, Leyland by NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU on behalf of NHS Chorley and South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
The purpose of this procurement was to secure a service provider to deliver the primary medical care provision at Station Surgery, Leyland and award an Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) contract with a 10-year term with the option to extend for a further maximum 5 years.
The annual value of the contract is GBP 355 569.54 (total estimated value including extension option of GBP 5 333 543 over 15 years. The annual contract value is based on estimated income relating to the existing provision.
Light Touch Regime' services: this procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7.
In accordance with the regulatory provision for procuring services under a state of urgency, this procurement process followed an accelerated open procedure. There is a requirement for the services to commence 1 August 2020 due to expiry of the existing contract on 31 July 2020. Therefore the procurement timetable reflected the extreme level of urgency required to protect continuity of care for patients at a time of unprecedented emergency in the health and social care system resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic. This had placed additional unforeseen pressure on the capability of the CCG to follow its usual procurement timescales and it was deemed in the best interest of patients to procure the services via an accelerated procedure.
Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made
As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.
Right to cancel: the contracting authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.
The contracting authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this contract notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.
All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the contracting authority reserves the right to change these.
Transparency: the contracting authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.
In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the contracting authority.
Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services.
Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body.


Winner: Leyland Surgery
Award value: 5333543
Number of bids: 4