Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-05-13
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) (“NSS”)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Innovation partnership
CPV classification: 33168000 | 85150000: Medical imaging services
Estimated value: 4000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The requirement for this procurement is to identify an innovation partner who will develop an innovative CCE (Colon Capsule Endoscopy) managed service integrated into the NHS across Scotland with the aim of improving the patient journey, improving outcomes and reducing the requirement for traditional hospital-based optical colonoscopy procedures.
The innovation partner will provide colon endoscopy capsules and a delivery, reading and reporting service to NHS Scotland.
NHSScotland is looking identify an innovation partner who will develop an innovative CCE (Colon Capsule Endoscopy) managed service integrated into the NHS across Scotland with the aim of improving the patient journey, improving outcomes and reducing the requirement for traditional hospital-based optical colonoscopy procedures.
Innovation partner who will perform CCE (Colon Capsule Endoscopy), delivery, reading and reporting service including all, or some of the following components:
In addition, in regards to IT integration, the service will be able to seamlessly refer a patient to a video capsule endoscopy and receive the report the same way as any other endoscopy report. This includes scheduling of follow-ups as well as integration into patient records such as SCIStore and with Trakcare. Users of alternative endoscopy management systems could be connected into the NHS IT infrastructure.
It will also provide a dedicated portal is available for additional status reporting and other information for patients, care takers and consultants.
Phase 1 consists of a circa 500 patient trial which will determine the clinical and economical viability of this innovative service.
Any renegotiation of the contract following phase 1 will be in line with Regulation 72 of The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Please note, the contract value given in this Contract Notice is an indicative figure. Given this is a new innovative approach the final value of the contract could vary substantially.
The Authority will notify economic operators who submitted a tender or (where no deselection notification has previously been made) applied to be selected to tender, of its decision to award the Framework Agreement which notification will contain among other information, a summary of the reasons why the economic operators was unsuccessful. The notification will incorporate a “standstill period” of a minimum of 10 clear calendar days (or a minimum of 15 if the communication method used is not electronic) between the date on which the Authority dispatches the notice(s) and the date on which the Authority proposes to conclude the relevant Framework Agreement. The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority during the standstill period will automatically continue the prohibition on entering into the Framework Agreement until the court proceedings are determined, discontinued or disposed of, or the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition. The remedies that may be awarded by the courts before the Framework Agreement has been entered into include the setting aside of the decision to award the Framework Agreement to the winning tenderer(s). The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority after the Framework Agreement has been entered into will not affect the Framework Agreement unless grounds for the imposition of special penalties under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 can be established. Otherwise the remedies that may be awarded by the courts where the Framework Agreement has been entered into are limited to the award of damages.


Winner: Medtronic Ltd
Award value: 4000000
Number of bids: 1