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Contract Notice

Long Acting Reversible Contraception in Primary Care Settings Direct Award B SC230146

  • First published: 09 December 2025
  • Last modified: 09 December 2025
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Contents

Summary

OCID:
ocds-h6vhtk-05f11c
Published by:
Kent County Council
Authority ID:
AA20084
Publication date:
09 December 2025
Deadline date:
26 November 2026
Notice type:
Contract Notice
Has documents:
No
Has SPD:
No
Has Carbon Reduction Plan:
N/A

Abstract

This is a contract notice being issued as part of a Direct Award B under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR).

Kent County Council is procuring the fitting, monitoring, checking and removal of intrauterine devices (IUDs), intrauterine systems (IUSs) and sub-dermal implants [SDIs] collectively known as long acting reversible contraception (LARC).1 The Service will be provided in primary care settings across Kent, by practitioners who hold valid and up-to-date Letters of Competence (LoC) for the procedures undertaken, or potential providers who have suitability to pursue the professional activity, including the ability to: - achieve and maintain competence to deliver LARC as specified by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) as part of a primary care pathway. - have appropriate treatment rooms for delivery of LARC as specified by FSRH latest clinical guidance, within each geographical GP PCN/ neighbourhood quadrant - ensure that patients with needs relating to uncomplicated STIs should have their care managed by appropriately skilled healthcare professionals, as defined by the latest standards specified by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH).

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Kent Business Portal portal at: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/??notice-title??/H34Q8655UZ

To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/H34Q8655UZ

If you experience any technical difficulties from accessing the above url, then please contact the Delta eSourcing Helpdesk on call 0800 923 9236 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com.

Full notice text

Contract notice

Section I: Contracting authority

I.1) Name and addresses

Kent County Council

Sessions House

Kent

ME14 1XQ

UK

Contact person: Nicola Foster

Telephone: +44 3000413490

E-mail: nicola.foster@kent.gov.uk

NUTS: UKJ4

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/

I.3) Communication

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Kent:-Community-health-services./H34Q8655UZ


Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address


Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to the abovementioned address


I.4) Type of the contracting authority

Regional or local authority

I.5) Main activity

Health

Section II: Object

II.1) Scope of the procurement

II.1.1) Title

Long Acting Reversible Contraception in Primary Care Settings Direct Award B SC230146

Reference number: SC230146

II.1.2) Main CPV code

85323000

 

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

This is a contract notice being issued as part of a Direct Award B under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR).

Kent County Council is procuring the fitting, monitoring, checking and removal of intrauterine devices (IUDs), intrauterine systems (IUSs) and sub-dermal implants [SDIs] collectively known as long acting reversible contraception (LARC).1 The Service will be provided in primary care settings across Kent, by practitioners who hold valid and up-to-date Letters of Competence (LoC) for the procedures undertaken, or potential providers who have suitability to pursue the professional activity, including the ability to: - achieve and maintain competence to deliver LARC as specified by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) as part of a primary care pathway. - have appropriate treatment rooms for delivery of LARC as specified by FSRH latest clinical guidance, within each geographical GP PCN/ neighbourhood quadrant - ensure that patients with needs relating to uncomplicated STIs should have their care managed by appropriately skilled healthcare professionals, as defined by the latest standards specified by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH).

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Kent Business Portal portal at: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/??notice-title??/H34Q8655UZ

To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/H34Q8655UZ

If you experience any technical difficulties from accessing the above url, then please contact the Delta eSourcing Helpdesk on call 0800 923 9236 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com.

II.1.5) Estimated total value

Value excluding VAT: 900 000.00  GBP

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.2) Description

II.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS code:

UKJ4


Main site or place of performance:

Kent

II.2.4) Description of the procurement

This is a contract notice being issued as part of a Direct Award B under the Provider Selection Regime (PSR).

Kent County Council is procuring the fitting, monitoring, checking and removal of intrauterine devices (IUDs), intrauterine systems (IUSs) and sub-dermal implants [SDIs] collectively known as long acting reversible contraception (LARC).1 The Service will be provided in primary care settings across Kent, by practitioners who hold valid and up-to-date Letters of Competence (LoC) for the procedures undertaken, or potential providers who have suitability to pursue the professional activity, including the ability to: - achieve and maintain competence to deliver LARC as specified by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) as part of a primary care pathway. - have appropriate treatment rooms for delivery of LARC as specified by FSRH latest clinical guidance, within each geographical GP PCN/ neighbourhood quadrant - ensure that patients with needs relating to uncomplicated STIs should have their care managed by appropriately skilled healthcare professionals, as defined by the latest standards specified by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH).

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Kent Business Portal portal at: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/tenders/??notice-title??/H34Q8655UZ

To respond to this opportunity, please click here: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/H34Q8655UZ

If you experience any technical difficulties from accessing the above url, then please contact the Delta eSourcing Helpdesk on call 0800 923 9236 or email helpdesk@delta-esourcing.com.

II.2.5) Award criteria

Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents

II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system

Start: 07/10/2025

End: 30/11/2025

This contract is subject to renewal: No

II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited

II.2.10) Information about variants

Variants will be accepted: No

II.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

II.2.13) Information about European Union funds

The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No

II.2.14) Additional information

To respond to this opportunity please click here: https://www.kentbusinessportal.org.uk/respond/H34Q8655UZ

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1) Description

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Restricted procedure

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No

IV.2) Administrative information

IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

Date: 26/11/2026

Local time: 23:59

IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

EN

Section VI: Complementary information

VI.1) Information about recurrence

This is a recurrent procurement: No

VI.3) Additional information

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.

For more information about this opportunity, please visit the Delta eSourcing portal at:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/tenders/UK-UK-Kent:-Community-health-services./H34Q8655UZ

To respond to this opportunity, please click here:

https://www.delta-esourcing.com/respond/H34Q8655UZ

GO Reference: GO-2025128-PRO-33622886

VI.4) Procedures for review

VI.4.1) Review body

Kent County Council

Sessions House

Kent

ME14 1XQ

UK

VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice

08/12/2025

Coding

Commodity categories

ID Title Parent category
85323000 Community health services Social services

Delivery locations

ID Description
100 UK - All

Alert region restrictions

The buyer has restricted the alert for this notice to suppliers based in the following regions.

ID Description
There are no alert restrictions for this notice.

About the buyer

Main contact:
nicola.foster@kent.gov.uk
Admin contact:
N/a
Technical contact:
N/a
Other contact:
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