Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2018-09-26
Buyer: NHS West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services
Estimated value: 6200000 GBP

Technical requirements: NHS West Cheshire Clinical Commissioning Group is intending to aware a prime provider contract to deliver care and clinical leadership across its intermediate care system. This consists of:
— providing clinical oversight and care services to intermediate care acuity individuals within their own homes or within care homes, where the patient’s own GP is unable to provide the enhanced level of care, preventing hospital admission,
— In addition, providing clinical oversight and care services to individuals within the existing intermediate care bed infrastructure, to support hospital discharges and reduce delayed transfers of care.
A prime provider contract to deliver care and clinical leadership across its intermediate care system. This consists of:
— providing clinical oversight and care services to intermediate care acuity individuals within their own homes or within care homes, where the patient’s own GP is unable to provide the enhanced level of care, preventing hospital admission,
— In addition, providing clinical oversight and care services to individuals within the existing intermediate care bed infrastructure, to support hospital discharges and reduce delayed transfers of care.
A named medical director or medical consultant will hold clinical responsibility and accountability for all patients under the care of the service, regardless of where they reside. The service provider will be held accountable for bed utilisation occupancy and patient flow key performance indicators across the health economy to ensure a fully integrated approach is adopted and pro-actively managed.
As clinical oversight and care provision is to be delivered across a number of locations and in partnership with a number of care providers:
— physical health and mental health; it is essential that an integrated approach is adopted to ensure that all available capacity is being utilised and patient flow is optimised.
Care will be provided to any patient registered with a GP Practice in West Cheshire Clinical commissioning group boundary that has been referred via:
— single point of access from community matrons, clinical team leaders, paramedics and general practitioners from the community,
Appropriate clinical oversight of the provision of intermediate care must be provided in all appropriate setting including:
Contract is for 24 months, with the option of extending up to 24 months. The advertised value in section II.2.7 is for the full period, if the extended period is taken.
This proposed contract award relates to previously advertised prior information notice call for competition 2018/S 064-142491. The process has been conducted, as described in regulations 74, 75 and 76, a light-touch regime. The full regime of the regulations does not apply to this contract award.
Following the publication of a Prior Information Notice (PIN) only 2 bidders met the exclusion criteria stated in the Standard Questionnaire. Subsequently one of the 2 providers retracted their expression of interest in favour of working collaboratively as a sub-contractor to the other bidder. Therefore the process was finalised using the negotiated procedure without prior publication. This VEAT notice serves as the 10 day standstill period to conclude the contract award. The standstill period ends on 1.10.2018. 2 other expressions of interest were received that did not meet the minimum criteria. These providers were debriefed at the time of exclusion and no challenges were received at that time.


Winner: Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Award value: 6200000