Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-04-20
Buyer: Ministry of Defence, C&C, C&C
Country: UK
Region: Gloucestershire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 1563000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-06-01
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: JFC7A/00017 — The Ministry of Defence has a requirement to provide Primary Health Care (PHC) services for both Regular and Reservist Service personnel assigned, attached, or transferring through the Duke of Gloucester Barracks, South Cerney, Cirencester.
The Ministry of Defence has a requirement to provide Primary Health Care (PHC) services for both Regular and Reservist Service personnel assigned, attached, or transferring through the Duke of Gloucester Barracks, South Cerney, Cirencester. The working Population at Risk (PAR) is approximately 500. The requirement includes the provision of services to Service personnel by:
(c) A provision of a facility for same-day appointments from the Contractor's own CQC registered premises which must be reachable by road from South Cerney within 30 minutes.
The DPHC medical centre will be run as a nurse/Practice Manager-led service with the Contractor's personnel collaborating with the senior nurse in the provision of services and ensuring standards of Healthcare Governance (HG) and compliance with MOD processes and policy.
3.2 Acute PHC cover. When in barracks, provide pre-hospital emergency care and treatment of life and limb threatening conditions within the Medical Centre, pending arrival of emergency services. Provision of an emergency first aid response.
Individual elements of the PHC service may be sub-contracted but all elements must, separately and together, meet the access and performance criteria laid down in this Schedule and the prime Contractor remains responsible for the quality and governance of all services provided and the costs of any subcontracting. The Contractor shall submit to the Authority any proposed plans for work to be performed by subcontractors or agents (including locum medical staff) and must obtain the consent of the Authority before any subcontracting takes place. The Contractor and all premises used to deliver services are to be registered with the Care Quality Commission or the equivalent in the devolved administrations.
Duration of Service: 3 years (1.8.2017 Start to 31.7.2020) plus 2 years options potentially extending service by 1 year at a time to a maximum of 2 (two) options years to 31.7.2022. Option take-up is entirely at the discretion of The Authority but must be priced in the ITT.
This requirement is being tendered under PCR 2015 ‘Open’ Procedure meaning full Tender bids must be submitted (no expressions of interest), by 10:00 on Thursday 1.6.2017 without exception, to address stated in Tender Documents.
It is, as is reasonably practicable to predict, possible that this Requirement may be renewed either after the Contract (including option years (x 2)) have expired. Any renewal advert would be placed within 12 months of the expiry date.
The Authority (MoD) have within the ITT requested the pricing of 2 additional option years, which The Authority reserve the right to consider their take-up on an individual annual basis, dependent upon Contractor's performance or / and MoD's needs. Options (x 2 years) projected costs have been included within the estimated value detailed, but have yet to be formally funded.
It is the intention of MOD to initially place a 3 year requirement (costed at 1 126 000 GBP) with the facility to extend — if required by MOD, for 2 x additional option years giving the presented combined contract funding value of 1 563 000 GBP.
Suppliers must read through ITT documents (incl. Special Notices and Instructions — DF47) and follow the process on how to respond to this opportunity.
The contracting authority considers that this contract may be suitable for economic operators that are small or medium enterprises (SMEs). However, any selection of tenderers will be based solely on the criteria set out for the procurement. The Authority reserves the right to amend any condition related to security of information to reflect any changes in national law or government policy. If any contract documents are accompanied by instructions on safeguarding classified information (e.g. a Security Aspects Letter), the Authority reserves the right to amend the terms of these instructions to reflect any changes in national law or government policy, whether in respect of the applicable protective marking scheme, specific protective markings given, the aspects to which any protective marking applies, or otherwise. The link below to the Gov.uk website provides information on the Government Security Classification.
Advertising Regime OJEU: This contract opportunity is published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU), the MoD Defence Contracts Bulletin and www.contracts.mod.uk GO Reference: GO-2017418-DCB-10030109.


Award value: 1563000