Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2020-02-19
Buyer: NHS Castle Point and Rochford Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85120000: Medical practice services | 85121000: Medical services | 85121100: General practitioner services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services
Estimated value: 57456000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender
EU fund: ESF

Technical requirements: The contracting authorities have established a pseudo dynamic purchasing system (PDPS) for the provision of urgent (parachute/caretaking) primary medical care services in accordance with NHS England Standard General Medical Services Regulations and alternative provider medical services directions, having full regard to the NHS England Primary Medical Care Policy and Guidance Manual (PGM). The contracting authorities invited responses from suitably qualified and experienced providers to apply to join the PDPS approved provider list and are issuing this contract award notice to communicate those organisations who were successfully appointed to the aforementioned PDPS.
Essex, including: North East Essex, West Essex, Mid Essex, Basildon and Brentwood, Thurrock, Southend-onSea and Castle Point and Rochford.
This contract notice communicates the contracting authorities’ completion of stage 1 of the procurement process which has now established the pseudo dynamic purchasing system (PDPS) for the provision of urgent (parachute/caretaking) primary medical care services in accordance with NHS England Standard General Medical Services Regulations and alternative provider medical services directions, having full regard to the NHS England Primary Medical Care Policy and Guidance Manual (PGM). The contracting authorities invited responses from suitably qualified and experienced providers to apply to join the PDPS approved provider list and are issuing this contract award notice to communicate those organisations who were successfully appointed to the PDPS. This PDPS will be in place for a 5-year term commencing 1.12.2019, with an option to extend for a further 12 months. It covers circumstances that may arise that require any of the named contracting authorities to put in place an urgent primary medical care services contract where, due to the time limitations, the contracting authority opts not to undertake an individual procurement process. (This is sometimes also referred to as a primary medical care 'Parachute' or 'Caretaking' service or 'Emergency Cover'). Bidders should therefore note that this PDPS places no obligation on the contracting authorities to procure services during the term of this PDPS. Potential bidders wishing to apply to enter for the first time, or to re-apply may do so on an annual basis. The contracting authorities intend to re-open the PDPS each year on the first working day in December. The subsequent opening dates are therefore: 2.12.2020, 1.12.2021, 1.12.2022, 1.12.2023, and if extended 2.12.2024. Potential bidders can apply to be added to the PDPS within the published annual timescales, until such time it is terminated. Closing dates for future rounds are: noon at 15.1.2021, noon 17.1.2022, noon 16.1.2023, noon 15.1.2024, and if extended noon 15.1.2025. The contracting authorities also intend to allow PDPS providers to update the information they have provided in their qualification questionnaire annually, requests for which must be made by 30
The contracting authorities reserve the right to extend the PDPS for an additional 12 month period at the contracting authorities sole discretion.
This contract award notice is submitted purely to communicate the names of the organisations that have been successfully appointed to the Essex Urgent Primary Medical Care PDPS. No contracts have been awarded in Round 1 (stage 1) of establishing this PDPS and as such there is no 'contract value' associated with this contract award notice other than the indicative aggregate value of the entire PDPS over its 5 year term as provided for in the original contract notice.
The services within this PDPS procurement fall within section 7 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (the ‘Regulations’). Neither the inclusion of the bidder at qualification stage nor the use of the terms memorandum of information, qualification questionnaire, or invitation to tender nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authorities intend to hold themselves bound by any of the regulations save those applicable to public contracts for social and other specific services listed in schedule 3 of the Regulations (the ‘Light Touch Regime’).


Winner: College Health Ltd
Award value: 57456000
Number of bids: 7