Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-04-23
Buyer: NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commisioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 10655484 GBP

Technical requirements: The aim of the urgent primary care service is to provide same day, next day, access to urgent care, urgent care support for adults, children and young people (no age restrictions) delivered from urgent care access points for advice and treatment in line with national requirements.
The aim of the urgent care service is to provide same day, next day, access to urgent care, urgent care support for adults, children and young people (no age restrictions) delivered from urgent care access points for advice and treatment in line with national requirements.
The urgent primary care service contract will be directly awarded without prior publication as the CGG believes competition to be absent for technical reasons as set out below. The CCG considers there is no reasonable alternative nor substitute providers and the absence of competition is not due to an artificial narrowing down of the parameters of the procurement: national guidance states services should be delivered from existing sites, which have the appropriate technology, equipment and infrastructures in place. Public engagement activity by the CCG confirms patients value the location of the current sites due to accessibility. Consultation with premises landlords to facilitate third party site usage, resulted in the CCG being advised that no new providers would be able to deliver services from these premises. Provision of “Extended Access” GP appointments is a critical part of the service in increasing core GP capacity for patients needing same day/urgent support. Funding is via an NHS England grant to the CCG (“Extended Access”) and is ring-fenced for local practices. The CCG is to contract with the local GP Federation to recruit GP’s who are employed and working within primary care in Newcastle and Gateshead to deliver the service and to ensure:
2) The service is led by local GP’s who are fully aware of all health and care services, pathways and protocols in order to eradicate overlap, hand offs and duplication in service delivery and clinical time;
3) The service and the GPs working in it provide full deputation on behalf of the patients and are able to refer on to specialist services, as required. Clinicians must be able to access, see and contemporaneously write directly into the patient’s full primary care record to provide as near as possible a full deputation of clinical care on behalf of the patients during each consultation. This requires formal agreements to be established between primary care and provider.
The contract is with one provider (lead provider) who will work with members of the Gateshead Care Partnership (GHFT and Gateshead LA).
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The commissioner will act in accordance with Part 3 Chapter 5 Regulation 85 to 87 and Part 3 Chapter 6 Regulation 88 to 104 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) (PCR 2015). Part 3 of the PCR 2015 provides for appeals to be made to the high court subject to the time limitations and other required procedural steps. The rules relating to appeal are complex and a dissatisfied tenderer is advised to take their own prompt legal advice.


Winner: Newcastle upon Tyne NHS Foundation Trust
Award value: 10655484