Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-03-16
Buyer: NHS England North (Cumbria and North East)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85120000: Medical practice services | 85121000: Medical services | 85121100: General practitioner services
Estimated value: 3410330 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-04-13

Technical requirements: North of England Commissioning Support is working for and on behalf of NHS England North (Cumbria and North East) and NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group who wish to commission an Alternative Provider Medical Services. The contract.
Term for Blaydon GP Practice will be 10 years with effect from 1.7.2018 to 30.6.2028, with the option to extend on an annual basis up to a maximum of 5 years subject to satisfactory financial and contractual performance. However this period of contract is subject to internal approval and could be subject to change to a 5 years contract term with effect from 1.7.2018 with no option to extend.
North of England Commissioning Support is working for and on behalf of NHS England North (Cumbria and North East) and NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group who wish to commission an Alternative Provider Medical Services. The contract term for Blaydon GP Practice will be 10 years with effect from 1.7.2018 to 30.6.2028, with the option to extend on an annual basis up to a maximum of 5 years subject to satisfactory financial and contractual performance. However this period of contract is subject to internal approval and could be subject to change to a 5 years contract term with effect from 1.7.2018 with no option to extend.
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 as amended by the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (TUPE) will apply to these contracts. Bidders are advised to form their own view on whether TUPE applies, obtaining their own legal advice and carrying out due diligence.
Further information and tender documentation can be obtained via: https://www.proactisplaza.com/SupplierPortal/?CID=NECS hosted by Proactis. The basic principles of the open procedure will be followed for this procurement to test capacity, capability and technical competence of bidders in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Under the Public Services (Social Value Act 2012).
(a) How what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the area where they exercise their functions; and
(b) How in conducting the process of procurement they might act with a view to securing that improvement.
Accordingly, the subject matter of the contracts has been scoped to take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authority relating to "economic, social and environmental well-being".
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The Contracting Authorities will act in accordance with Regulation 92 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015,
These Regulations provides for appeals to be made to the High Court subject to the time limitations and other required procedural steps. The rules relating to appeal are complex and a dissatisfied tenderer is advised to take their own prompt legal advice.


Award value: 3410330