Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-30
Buyer: NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 12054522 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-05-28
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The successful provider will be required to deliver termination of pregnancy services for the registered populations of the following Commissioners/Contracting Authorities:
3) NHS Walsall CCG. The contract duration will be for 5 years with an option to extend for a further 12 months.
Please note, during the term of the agreement, Birmingham and Solihull CCG may become responsible for commissioning services for the registered GP patient population of West Birmingham. Further details can be found in the tender documentation.
The service is for the provision of abortion care to the female population of Sandwell and West Birmingham Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Walsall Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Wolverhampton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG).
The service relates to the provision of termination services to women with an unwanted pregnancy who request termination. It also describes how termination services will provide contraception and sexually transmitted infection screening and treatment services.
The abortion service shall comply with the abortion Act 1967, as amended by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. Those seeking terminations that are under 16 years of age will comply with the guidelines stated within the service specification.
— to offer high quality, impartial support and advice to all service users who request an abortion, regardless of age, ethnicity, language, disability, religious or personal circumstances,
— to provide abortion methods clinically appropriate for a service user's gestation and clinical circumstances,
— to improve the sexual health of all service users through providing sexual health screening for Chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections (STI's) for all age groups for patients from Sandwell and West Birmingham, Walsall and Wolverhampton CCG’s,
— to provide information and advice on all methods of contraception and the supply of the full range of long acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods,
— to work with local Sexual Health Service providers to facilitate ongoing continuation of long term contraception for Sandwell and West Birmingham, Walsall and Wolverhampton residents. This may involve requests to patients to share patient contact details with sexual health service for follow up,
— to provide service users with appropriate information on post-abortion counselling services both prior to and after having a termination.
Further details relating to the service and procurement process can be found within the EU Supply system. Please refer to Section I.3) of this notice for details on accessing the relevant information.
Financial standing requirements for the procurement are outlined within Document 1 — ITT Process Overview, Section 9.4 Financial Standing.


Eligibility requirements: All professional and/or trade registrations is specified within the tender documentation.

Award value: 12054522