Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2017-12-20
Buyer: Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 892429 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This national clinical audit of the structure, processes and outcomes of clinical care for adults undergoing emergency laparotomy in England and Wales, has been centrally funded as part of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcome Programme (NCAPOP) since 2012.
This contract will support the continued delivery of a national clinical audit of NHS-funded emergency laparotomy care provision and outcome in England and Wales. The successful provider will build on the successes and learning established by the audit to date.
The aim of the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit for this contract period is to enable ongoing and sustained improvement of the quality and outcomes of care for patients undergoing emergency laparotomy in England and Wales.
a. Identifying the specific improvements in care that audit will focus on achieving, ensuring the audit measures and outputs are structured rigorously around these measures, and that they are based on evidence-based standards and guidance wherever possible.
g. Highlighting key features of local service provision, planning and delivery, including where competing organisational priorities, demands and national and local incentives may act to the detriment of outcomes for these patients.
h. Tailoring audit outputs for Wales to support Welsh local and national quality assurance and quality improvement initiatives
2— Continuing to work synergistically with other system and pathway-specific levers and facilitators for improvement, for example:
a. Supporting the development and delivery of a possible future Best Practice Tariff for Emergency Laparotomy.
b. Supporting linked national research initiatives in determining how best to accelerate the delivery of quality improvement for this patient cohort.
4— Continuing to enhance the delivery of high quality, risk-adjusted data, reflected in a dataset focussed around key improvement questions, and capable of supporting meaningful and statistically sound comparisons and benchmarking.
— The ability to engage actively with patient and carer groups; experience of patient and public involvement.
— Methodological and statistical expertise and experience to inform, data collection, data cleaning, analysis and interpretation of the data.
—  Information security /management skills including understanding/ experience of patient level data linkage and sound knowledge of information governance and procedures for gaining permissions for data processing.
The contract is for an initial period of 3 years at a maximum total budget of  892 500 GBP excluding VAT and bids exceeding this limit may be rejected.
The contract is let initially to be delivered solely for England and Wales. However there is potential both to extend the contract for a possible additional two years, continuing to cover England and Wales, subject to the availability of funding and an assessment by HQIP on the quality of delivery of the programme. In addition there is a possibility that Scotland may elect to join the programme at a point of time in the future. The additional contract value that would be offered to support Scottish participation would be 28 200 GBP per annum pro rata excl.VAT. If Scotland joined early in the 1st year and the whole contract was then extended to the 5 years’ total duration, the maximum contract value would be 1 628 500 GBP excl. VAT.


Winner: The Royal College of Anaesthetists
Award value: 892429
Number of bids: 1