Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-10-02
Buyer: NHS Grampian
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85120000: Medical practice services | 85121000: Medical services
Submission deadline: 2019-10-24

Technical requirements: For the provision of primary medical services through a general medical services contract in Aberdeen City Centre for the 9 000 patients of Carden medical practice.
In accordance with the terms of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 Section 17J (as amended), initial expressions of interest, from suitably qualified parties*, are hereby requested for the provision of primary medical services through a general medical services contract in Aberdeen City Centre for the 9 000 patients of Carden medical practice.
(*interested parties require to comply with the relevant terms of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, as amended, including and specifically Section 17L).
This is a significant opportunity for an interested party to hold a general medical services contract for an established registered population of circa 9 000 patients. The detailed contractual requirements will be reflective of the 2018 Scottish general medical services contract.
The successful contractor will be expected to deliver the full range of core general medical, additional, and enhanced services, currently offered and in line with the new GMS contract and Aberdeen city health and social care strategic plan.
Innovative approaches in line with the Aberdeen city primary care improvement plan which support service sustainability in the area will be considered favourably.
The Carden medical practice is in the West End area of the central locality and within walking distance to 4 other independent GP practices. Services are provided from an ample purpose built leased building. Currently a small area of the building is shared with another independent business.
As this contract is above the threshold of 589 000 GBP, the light touch regime (LTR) will apply in line with regulations 74-76 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
The successful bidder must satisfy the criteria for a contractor to enter into a general medical services contract set out in Section 17L of The National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.
The successful bidder must satisfy the criteria for a contractor to enter into a general medical services contract set out in section 17L of The National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978.
Bidders who are deemed to have met all mandatory requirements will be required to submit a business case. Following evaluation of the business case, Aberdeen City health and social care partnership will invite the top ranked applicants for interview. There is no fixed number of applicants who may be taken forward for interview, this will only be known once all the business cases have been evaluated in accordance with the evaluation criteria set out in the Invitation document.
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The project code is 14619. For more information see:
The contracting authority does not intend to include a sub-contract clause as part of community benefits (as per Section 25 of the Procurement Reform (Scotland) Act 2014) in this contract for the following reason:
The contracting authority does not intend to include any community benefit requirements in this contract for the following reason:
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this PQQ exercise. The project code is 14619. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343