Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2019-12-24
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU on behalf of East Staffordshire CCG
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Award criteria: Lowest price

Technical requirements: The CCG was looking for an established, innovative provider, who would be responsible for the coordination and delivery of all community services, inclusive of all ages, across East Staffordshire. The successful provider would have needed to ensure stability and rigour in the delivery of high quality, sustainable services as they are today, whilst also working to progress towards the vision in the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent STP.
The services are a range of core community services (including current in reach community services at HMP Dovegate). These are services for all ages and for all patients registered with one of the 18 GP practices across East Staffordshire CCG.
The services are a range of core community services (including current in reach community services at HMP Dovegate) and ensures equity of access across the geographical footprint including inner city and rural areas. These are services for all ages and for all patients registered with one of the 18 GP practices across East Staffordshire CCG:
— specialist nursing: all ages: dietetics nutrition support, palliative team, adult ability team, continence service, tissue viability, clinical nurse specialist learning disabilities — primary care,
— intermediate care/rehabilitation services/therapies: all ages unless otherwise stated: musculoskeletal intermediate service (MIS), community therapies and falls, stroke rehabilitation service, podiatry service, enteral feeds, physiotherapy for adults with a developmental Disorder (PADD), speech and language therapy — adult learning disability), care co-ordination centre. Community children's services: paediatric physiotherapy, paediatric enteral feeds, paediatric speech and language therapy.
The successful provider was required to work with other stakeholders across the system to deliver these services and ensure a smooth transition for patients from the current provider. The CCG has conducted an open procurement in 2019 for a 2 year contract with the option to extend for 1 year. No successful bids were received.
Therefore the CCG plans to put in place interim arrangements for patient safety for the next 12 months direct with local capable provider(s) whilst the CCG review possible options for the next steps.
Light touch regime’ services: this procurement was 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. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in the tender documents. 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.