Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2020-08-18
Buyer: Guy's & St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 80000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2020-08-26

Technical requirements: Interim contracts for clinical services to support immediate efforts to reduce NHS waiting lists in the London Region.
The Contracting Authorities intend to award contracts to providers for a range of services including: 1) NHS inpatient and outpatient services (including full supporting pathology and imaging) and urgent elective care and cancer treatment in line with nationally set criteria;
2) NHS inpatient non-elective care (either direct admission or transfer from an NHS organisation). The scope of the procurement is also intended to permit NHS England to commission specialised services. The purpose of the awards is to assist efforts to reduce NHS waiting list pressures that have increased as a result of Covid-19. It is the intention for each Contracting Authority named in this notice to enter into a separate contract with a successful provider, for the services required by that authority.
There is no limit on the number of contracts that may be awarded by an individual Contracting Authority.
It is expected that locations at which services will be provided will need to be easily accessible to patients of the Contracting Authorities although a strict geographical boundary is not being imposed.
Providers will be required to satisfy minimum levels of quality criteria and standards in addition to the mandatory and discretionary exclusion grounds under Regulation 57 Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Minimum requirements/ standards imposed may vary per service or group of services and the award processes for different services may take place consecutively and not concurrently. In principle price for all activity purchased will be based on National Tariff 2019/20 + MFF with no minimum payment or volume/ activity guarantee. Where existing contracts are varied, the services will be delivered according to the terms of the existing contract, subject to the relevant variation. Where new contracts are entered into, the terms will be based upon the generic NHS Standard Contract 2020/21 (full length) or the template sub-contract issued by NHS England for use with the NHS Standard Contract 2020/21 (as appropriate). Post award, activity may be purchased from any provider holding a contract for the relevant services on the basis of patient choice and/or at the discretion of the Contracting Authority in order to ensure quality, continuity, accessibility, availability and comprehensiveness of patient services. Contracts may be awarded as variations to existing contracts or as new contracts. Providers must be able to mobilise to ensure service provision from 8 September 2020.
Contracts will be awarded by the Contracting Authorities without a further call for competition. If all tenderers are awarded contracts by a Contracting Authority, no standstill period will be observed in accordance with Regulation 86(5) PCR 2015.
The agreement can be accessed by NHS England and NHS bodies, including CCGs, NHS trusts, NHS foundation trusts within the London Region. Lists of all of such NHS bodies at: http://www.nhs.uk/Servicedirectories/pages/nhstrustlisting.aspx
Post award, activity may be purchased from any provider holding a contract for the relevant services on the basis of patient choice and/or at the discretion of the relevant Contracting Authority in order to ensure quality, continuity, accessibility, availability and comprehensiveness of patient services.


Award value: 80000000