Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-12-16
Buyer: NHS Barking and Dagenham Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Region: LONDON
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85110000: Hospital and related services | 85111100: Surgical services | 85111200: Medical services | 85111300: Gynaecological services | 85111320
Estimated value: 69706462 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-02-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: North East London Elective Care Services — Barking and Dagenham, Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest CCG areas.
Further to the Market Consultation notice published on Contracts Finder on 11.10.2016, NHS Barking and Dagenham (the Contracting Authority) is issuing this Invitation to Tender (ITT) relating to the provision of Elective Care Services from the North East London Treatment Centre (NELTC).
Interested parties must use the above this link to register an account on the ProContract e-tendering portal, express an interest in the opportunity, then follow the instructions provided on the resulting portal page to navigate to the ITT stage in order to access the documentation for completion.
Contract values provided in this notice are estimated maximum contract values for the full extended contract duration.
North East London Treatment Centre (NELTC). The NELTC is based within the grounds of King George Hospital located at Barley Lane, Goodmayes, Ilford, IG3 8YB.
NHS Barking and Dagenham CCG is issuing this Invitation to Tender on behalf of itself, NHS Havering, Redbridge and Waltham Forest CCGs. The four CCGs aim to collaboratively procure North East London Elective Care Services (NELECS) to serve a population of approximately 1 000 000 residents in outer north east London.
The scope of activity to be delivered will include outpatient, day case, surgical and associated activities, diagnostic/investigation (endoscopy), elective procedures, follow-up care and inpatient services (as required) for patients aged 18 years and up including the following specialities: ENT, Gastroenterology, Gynaecology (new specialty), General Surgery, Ophthalmology, Trauma and Orthopaedics and Urology (new specialty).
By submitting a bid a Bidder agrees to develop and agree with the Contracting Authority detailed arrangements for three outreach sites.
The Contract will be for an initial term of 63 months (5.25 years) with the possibility of extending the term for a further 12 months (1 year) beyond the initial term. If all available extensions are taken up, the maximum contract duration will be 75 months (6.25 years). The anticipated contract start date is 3.4.2017; the first 3 months as mobilisation and service commencement on 1.7.2017.
The contract value over 75 months is estimated to be between 64 543 020 GBP and 69 706 462 GBP. Further details on activity levels are set out in the ITT documentation available from the contact point at I.3.
This Procurement is for clinical services and falls under the ‘Light Touch Regime’ (Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102)). The Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations referred to therein and, to the extent that it follows any other part of the Regulations, it does so entirely voluntarily.
The contracting authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time which shall include the right not to award the contract and does not bind itself to accept any tender received, and reserves the right to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The contracting authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate.
All dates, time periods and values in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these.
The Contracting Authority will voluntarily incorporate a standstill period from the date when information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenders. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.


Award value: 69706462