Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2020-03-09
Buyer: NHS Islington Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 80000000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 5347000 GBP

Technical requirements: This service will deliver high quality community based gynaecology interventions, providing a comprehensive central point of access, triage, assessment, diagnostic and clinical care. The service will be fully integrated with the local health economy; hospitals, community and primary health care services. The service will receive all gynaecology referrals for the area, will review primary care records at referral to support triage and subsequent clinical intervention, and will provide direct onward access to local outpatient appointments and procedures with local hospitals when required.
The service will be consultant and GP led through shared governance arrangements with the local NHS acute and community trusts, GP Federations and Practices. To support effective referrals the service will deliver a full training and engagement programme with local GP’s. Services will be provided from local settings across the borough and provide care at evenings and weekends.
The contract value published is an indicative sum for the 4 years of the contract (2 + 2). Actual values will depend on activity, with the tariff linked to national PBR tariffs. Tariffs will be subject to annual review.
This service will deliver high quality community based gynaecology interventions, providing a comprehensive central point of access, triage, assessment, diagnostic and clinical care. The service will be fully integrated with the local health economy; hospitals, community and primary health care services. The service will receive all gynaecology referrals for the area, will review primary care records at referral to support triage and subsequent clinical intervention, and will provide direct onward access to local outpatient appointments and procedures with local hospitals when required.
The service will be consultant and GP led through shared governance arrangements with the local NHS acute and community trusts, GP Federations and Practices. To support effective referrals the service will deliver a full training and engagement programme with local GP’s. Services will be provided from local settings across the borough and provide care at evenings and weekends.
The initial contract term will be 2 years with an option to extend for further 2 years. The indicative total contract value is GBP 5 347 000. Actual values will depend on activity, with the tariff linked to national PBR tariffs. Tariffs will be subject to annual review.
We are developing an integrated community gynaecology service in line with the ambitions in the long term plan and local priorities. Our developing integrated care system brings together local organisations to deliver the ‘triple integration’ consistent with what doctors report is needed. We are placing a greater emphasis on partnership working, and this service is an example of that approach.
The integrated community gynaecology service will provide a central point of access alongside a shared model of care that builds on the capabilities within the local health system; the model requires extensive, collaborative working arrangements. These arrangements include, but are not limited to, cross cutting approaches for patient consent, collective information sharing, shared approaches to workforce and clinicians, shared approaches to use of estate, cross-cutting governance arrangements and shared clinical care processes.
Consequently, we consider that only health and care providers within the existing STP arrangements are able to deliver this service.


Winner: Islington GP Federation
Award value: 5347000