Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2018-10-30
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 800000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The contracting authority is commissioning a consultant-led Hospice at Home service delivered from a specialist palliative care unit for patients living in the CCG area.
The Hospice at Home service will give additional support in a patient's own home, often at very short notice, for people, who are seriously ill or approaching the end of their life and who want to be cared for at home. It is a service which works with and alongside the GP, District Nurse and existing community services to enhance currently available services.
Midlands and Lancashire CSU is publishing this VEAT Notice to confirm the intention to award a contract (subject to approvals) to Queenscourt Hospice for the provision of the Hospice at Home Service.
This VEAT Notice is published under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. It is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (‘Regulations’). Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.
Award of a contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (in the cases listed in Section 2 of Annexes D1, D2 or D3 as appropriate)
Justification for the choice of the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEU in accordance with Directive 2004/18/EC
The works/goods/services can be provided only by a particular tenderer for reasons that are: technical
New works/services, constituting a repetition of existing works/services and ordered in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the Directive: yes
NHS Southport and Formby CCG placed an advert on Contracts Finder inviting expressions of interest from any provider who would be capable of delivering the Hospice at Home service. Only 1 expression of interest was received; and this was from the existing provider, Woodlands Hospice.
Following publication of the VEAT notice on 19.10.2018, there will be a 10-day standstill period, concluding on Thursday 10.11. 2018. Following satisfactory conclusion of the standstill period, CCGs will enter into a contract with Woodlands Hospice for 3 year(s) with the option to extend by 2 years.
This VEAT Notice is published under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. It is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (‘Regulations’). Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.
Award of a contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union (in the cases listed in Section 2 of Annexes D1, D2 or D3 as appropriate)
Justification for the choice of the negotiated procedure without prior publication of a contract notice in the OJEU in accordance with Directive 2004/18/EC.
The works/goods/services can be provided only by a particular tenderer for reasons that are: technical.
New works/services, constituting a repetition of existing works/services and ordered in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the Directive: yes.


Winner: Queenscourt Hospice
Award value: 800000