Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-10-05
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85140000: Miscellaneous health services
Estimated value: 101500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-10-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group (S&FCCG) is made up of local doctors, nurses, and practice staff, who are well placed to know the health needs and views of people living in the area. S&FCCG envisage appropriate, co-ordinated care for patients via integrated services and responsiveness to patients’ needs, while ensuring the best possible use of resources, avoiding fragmentation of services and reducing the complexity of the patient journey.
Area covered by the population of Southport and Formby, covering an area stretching from Ince Blundell in the south to Churchtown in the north.
NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group brings together 19 doctors' surgeries covering an area stretching from Ince Blundell in the south to Churchtown in the north with a population size of 125 000.
SFCCG know from speaking to local people that they really value the care they receive from GP practices and community services, provided close to where they live. SFCCG believe there are great benefits in wrapping services around their local communities in an integrated way to really focus on their health needs. SFCCG see a variety of professionals from across health and social care playing a greater role in these locality multidisciplinary teams. SFCCG believe this model is capable of making improvements in all the priority areas they have set out in their 5-year strategy: ‘Sefton2gether – Shaping Sefton II’ and their blueprint for transforming services, benefiting all Southport and Formby residents, no matter what their age or differing health needs.
Southport and Formby CCG envisage appropriate, co-ordinated care for patients via integrated services and responsiveness to patients’ needs, while ensuring the best possible use of resources, avoiding fragmentation of services and reducing the complexity of the patient journey.
Southport and Formby CCG's vision aims to create a sustainable healthy community based on health needs, with partners; focused on delivering high quality and integrated care services to all, to improve the health and well-being of their population.
The initial contract is envisaged to be for 5 years with the option to extend for 1 x 24-month periods.
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.
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.


Award value: 101500000