II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKH24
Main site or place of performance:
Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
NHS BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) wishes to procure Termination of Pregnancy Services. The contract period will be for 33 months (01st July 2022 to 31st March 2025), with an option to extend for a further 24 months.
The key objectives of the service are:
• To offer high quality, impartial support and advice to all service users who request a termination of pregnancy, regardless of age, ethnicity, language, disability, sexual orientation, religious or personal circumstances.
• To provide service users with access to a termination of pregnancy as early as possible.
• To provide termination of pregnancy methods clinically appropriate for a service user’s gestation and clinical circumstances.
• To improve the sexual health of service users through providing sexual health screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception, and the supply of the full range of reversible contraceptive methods.
The service will provide the following for the population of BLMK:
• Offer face to face appointments for all young people aged 18 and under.
• Offer telemedicine and face to face appointments for Service Users as clinically appropriate.
• Advice for unwanted pregnancy and referral for termination of pregnancy.
• Pre-and post-termination support and advice and contraception planning and implementation post-termination.
• Active Health promotion/prevention campaigns on Sexual Health.
• Ensuring that contraception advice, support and provision is available as part of all termination of pregnancy service care pathways.
• Reducing unintended and unwanted conceptions and repeat terminations of pregnancy in all ages by improving access to long-acting reversible contraception
• To improve the sexual health of service users through proactively signposting to local sexual health services for screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia, other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV.
• To improve the sexual health of service users through proactively offering sexual health screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception, (with particular emphasis on the promotion of LARC) and the offer of the full range of reversible contraceptive methods. Where the supply of contraception is not appropriate, the service user should be signposted to local contraceptive and sexual health services.
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
Duration in months: 33
This contract is subject to renewal: Yes
Description of renewals:
Service reviews will be undertaken regularly, in order to determine any relevant contact renewal.
The contract term will be for an initial 33 months (01st July 2022 to 31st March 2025), with the option to extend by a further 24 months.
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:
Yes
Description of options:
The contract term will be for an initial 33 months, with the option to extend by a further 24 months.
You are advised that the aggregate value of the contract (including extensions) is £6,531,249.90 (57 months). The aggregate value of the contract (excluding extensions) is £3,781,249.90 (33 months) based on £1,375,000 p.a. (maximum available budget per annum).
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No