Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group
Aspen House, Stephenson Road, Severalls Business Park
Colchester
CO4 9QR
UK
Contact person: Charles Kirabo
E-mail: charles.kirabo@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
Primary Care — Care Home Enhanced Service for North East Essex
Reference number: ACE-0349-2018 NEE
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85100000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group had made the decision that working with an alliance of providers will be the best solution to provide an affordable, sustainable, proactive and preventative primary care — care home enhanced service.
This service required providers to work at-scale to develop a sustainable and effective enhanced service for care home residents (nursing and residential) in North East Essex to ensure the provision of an above GMS core, proactive and preventative primary care service in the Colchester and Tendring areas. The aim of the service was to reduce the workload for GP practices and improve the health outcomes of nursing and residential care home residents in North East Essex, leading to a further reduction of dependence on other health and social care services.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
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
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group had made the decision that working with an alliance of providers will be the best solution to provide an affordable, sustainable, proactive and preventative primary care — care home enhanced service.
This service required providers to work at-scale to develop a sustainable and effective enhanced service for care home residents (nursing and residential) in North East Essex to ensure the provision of an above GMS core, proactive and preventative primary care service in the Colchester and Tendring areas. The aim of the service is to reduce the workload for GP practices and improve the health outcomes of nursing and residential care home residents in North East Essex, leading to a further reduction of dependence on other health and social care services.
North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group had sought expressions of interest from suitably qualified providers who could evidence their ability to make the commitment to collaboration in an alliance way of working and who can evidence that they have the necessary experience in multi-disciplinary integrated care; with capacity and capability to commence the service in May 2019; ability to work with other statutory providers; and capable of financially holding and managing the scale of risk through a degree of income risk share to express an interest by completing and uploading an expression of interest form by the submission deadline.
An advert commencing market engagement had been published by the CCG on the Contracts Finder website in September 2018, and engagement with the market had been fully underway since then. The CCG and provider(s) would work collaboratively to ensure delivery of the alliance objectives and the standards and outcomes of the care home enhanced service. The alliance would be underpinned by an overarching alliance agreement, which the partners would agree, to align clinical and financial drivers.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Cost criterion: Quality
/ Weighting: 100
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
There was an option to extend the contract by 24 months. Other potential options were described in Section II.2.4 of the initial notice.
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
Competitive procedure with negotiation
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:
2018/S 237-541372
IV.2.9) Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice
The contracting authority will not award any further contracts based on the above prior information notice
Section V: Award of contract
Title: Primary Care — Care Home Enhanced Service for North East Essex
A contract/lot is awarded:
No
V.1 Information on non-award
The contract/lot is not awarded
No tenders or requests to participate were received or all were rejected
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: charles.kirabo@attain.co.uk
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
22/07/2019