Public procurement notice: Contract Award Notice
Published: 2018-06-20
Buyer: HealthTrust Europe LLP (HTE) acting as agent for the University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust (“UHCW”)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 85000000
Estimated value: 25000000 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: HealthTrust Europe ("HTE") is sought to establish a framework agreement for the provision of outsourced Radiology Interpretation, Diagnostic and Reporting Services. The scope of services includes the examination of patient images, the production of reports containing clinical findings and recommendations and the transfer of reports electronically back to the referring physician or In-House Radiologist from within a Participating Authority.
The Framework Agreement will be for the provision of an outsourced Radiology Image Interpretation, Diagnostics and Reporting Service to each Participating Authority. The services shall include as a minimum: the provision of a platform to support the electronic transfer of diagnostic and report referral requests, Radiological Images and any additional data required for the provision of the services (e.g. Medical Records, historic test results); and the provision of image examination and diagnostic services for modalities such as Plain Film, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance and Nuclear Medicine; and the production of clinical reports containing the findings and recommendations of the Radiologist used to aid in the diagnosis of the patient; and the provision of “Routine”, “Urgent” and “Out of Hours” reporting services. The framework agreement will be multi source to operate under Lot 1 for access by Participating Authorities on a direct award basis only.
The Framework Agreement resulting from this procurement process will remain in force for an initial period of 2 years and may be extended by HealthTrust Europe by 2 further 1 year periods subject to a maximum term of 4 years.
The Framework Agreement will be for the provision of an outsourced Radiology Image Interpretation, Diagnostics and Reporting Service to each Participating Authority. The services shall include as a minimum: the provision of a platform to support the electronic transfer of diagnostic and report referral requests, Images and any additional data required for the provision of the services (e.g. Medical Records, historic test results); and the provision of image examination and diagnostic services for modalities such as Plain Film, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance and Nuclear Medicine; and the production of clinical reports containing the findings and recommendations of the Radiologist used to aid in the diagnosis of the patient; and the provision of “Routine”, “Urgent” and “Out of Hours” reporting services.The Framework Agreement will automatically award those providers successfully awarded to Lot 1 (Direct Award) onto Lot 2 (Further Competition) without the requirement for further assessment and evaluation during the tender process, unless it is specified otherwise in the Tender Response. Lot 2 facilitates the reopening of competition through Further Competition (Mini Competition) via the following routes:
A) One Participating Authority is able to enter into Further Competition in order to drive contract price efficiency and identify added value service offerings, pursuant to Framework Terms and Conditions.
B) Multiple Participating Authorities can aggregate volumes and spend and to contractually commit in advance to purchasing a specified value and/or volume in the provision of the services.
The Framework Agreement resulting from this procurement process will remain in force for an initial period of 2 years and may be extended by HealthTrust Europe by 2 further 1 year periods subject to a maximum term of 4 years.
HTE is a central purchasing body who is able to carry out this tender exercise by virtue of its appointment as an agent of UHCW. Notwithstanding HTE’s relationship with UHCW, it is HTE conducting this tender exercise and will execute the resultant framework agreement with successful bidders. The bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include all contracting authorities in the UK as defined in Regulation 2 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as may be updated from time to time. In particular, the following entities in the UK (particularly those of a health and/or social care nature) are envisaged as framework agreement users:
(ii) health and care trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx);
(iii) mental health trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/MentalHealthTrustListing.aspx);
(iv) clinical commissioning groups (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CCGListing.aspx);
(v) ambulance trusts (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx);
(vii) special health authorities (as listed at: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx);
(v) NHS Wales shared services partnership (as listed at http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure.
(3) All NHS bodies in Northern Ireland (known as Health and Social Care), including but not limited to:


Winner: 4Ways Healthcare Limited
Award value: 25000000
Number of bids: 11