Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
Aspen House, Stephenson Road, Severalls Business Park
Colchester
CO4 9QR
UK
Contact person: Maninder Singh Dulku
E-mail: Maninder.dulku@attain.co.uk
NUTS: UKH3
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.neessexccg.nhs.uk/
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Health
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
North East Essex Diabetes Service (NEEDS)
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85140000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
This is a contract award notice. NHS North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (NEECCG) will shortly be engaging with a third party organisation whom will be undertaking an independent review of Diabetes Management (DM) services across the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System (ICS). The outcomes of the review will inform the commercial options for the future of Diabetes services across the ICS, including North East Essex.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
2 410 798.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKH3
Main site or place of performance:
North East Essex.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
NHS North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (NEECCG) will shortly be engaging with a third party organisation whom will be undertaking an independent review of Diabetes Management (DM) services across the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System (ICS).
The outcomes of the review will inform the commercial options for the future of diabetes services across the ICS, including North East Essex.
The review is expected to be completed by April 2020 after which partners across the ICS will convene to deliberate its recommendations, commence action planning and explore commissioning options and opportunities; a process NECCG anticipate will take 2-3 months. To enable this process NEECCG will extend the current North East Essex Diabetes Service (NEEDS) by 12 months to 31.3.2022.
Recommendations from this review will inform the future commissioning of services and its potential geography.
The overall aim of the current NEEDS is to coordinate, promote and ensure, via a single point of access, the provision of a comprehensive range of high quality, cost effective integrated health services for people with diabetes and their carers living in North East Essex.
The current contract is due to expire on 31.3.2021.
The additional contractual term is for a period of 12 months from 1.4.2021 to 31.3.2022.
This will enable project team at NEECCG to be able to fully explore the options within the wider system and to understand if the service could be expanded into other areas.
A voluntary ex ante transparency notice relating to this matter was published on 27.1.2020.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Cost criterion: Quality
/ Weighting: 100 %
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
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition
Justification for selected award procedure:
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason: absence of competition for technical reasons
Explanation
NHS North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (NEECCG) will shortly be engaging with a third party organisation whom will be undertaking an independent review of Diabetes Management (DM) services across the Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care System (ICS).
The process of appraising the ICS-wide recommendations is expected to take approximately 2-3 months. Without the extension of the current service commissioners will not be able to sufficiently deliberate the recommendations in the review and still undertake a comprehensive procurement process to commission a high quality diabetes service across the ICS, including North East Essex.
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2020/S 018-040268
Section V: Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
16/01/2020
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Suffolk GP Federation CIC
2 Landseer Road
Ipswich
IP3 0AZ
UK
NUTS: UKH3
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 2 410 798.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be subcontracted
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
High Court of Justice of England and Wales
Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
UK
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
NHS North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
Aspen House, Stephenson Road, Severalls Business Park
Colchester
CO4 9QR
UK
E-mail: maninder.dulku@attain.co.uk
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
07/02/2020