Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-03-17
Buyer: Arden & GEM CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Submission deadline: 2018-04-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contract duration for this lot will be 3 years (36 months) with an option to extend for a further 2 years (24 months).
The potential total contract value for this lot is expected to be circa 9 300 000 GBP (1 860 000 GBP per annum) subject to whether the contract runs to its potential full term of 5 years.
The contract duration for this lot will be 3 years (36 months) with an option to extend for a further 2 years (24 months).
The potential total contract value for this lot is expected to be circa 1 720 000 GBP (344 000 GBP per annum) subject to whether the contract runs to its potential full term of 5 years.
The successful provider will be required to deliver Termination of Pregnancy services for the registered populations of the following lead and associate Commissioners:
Please note, as of the 1.4.2018 BXCCCG, BSCCCG and SCCG will merge to form NHS Birmingham and Solihull CCG.
— to Provide a consistent, comprehensive, effective, accessible, legal and appropriate abortion service to service users.
— to Provide a quality service informed by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Guidance for the ''Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion'' (the RCOG Guideline), the MEDFASH standards for sexual health service, and current best evidence.
— to ensure that opportunities for contraceptive counselling and sexual health screening are maximised especially chlamydia for patients at high risk.
— to offer high quality, impartial support and advice to all service users who request an abortion, regardless of age, ethnicity, language, disability, religious or personal circumstances.
— to provide abortion methods clinically appropriate for a service user's gestation and clinical circumstances.
— to improve the sexual health of service users through providing sexual health screening for Chlamydia for 15 -24 year olds and other sexually transmitted infections (STI's) for all age groups for patients from Birmingham and Solihull.
— to provide information and advice on all methods of contraception and the supply of the full range of long acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods.
— to work with local Sexual Health Service provider/s to facilitate ongoing continuation of long term contraception for Birmingham and Solihull residents. This may involve requests to patients to share patient contact details with sexual health service for follow up, particularly with under 25s.
The service specification is designed to sit alongside the legislative provisions of the Abortion Act and the Care Standards Act, and is not designed to replicate these provisions, or to duplicate, replicate or supersede the work undertaken by the Care Quality Commission or the Secretary of State for Health or register or approve independent sector abortion clinics. However, there may be some areas where the requirements of legislation appear in this service specification – but duplication has been kept to a minimum.