Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS East and North Hertfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group
Charter House, Parkway
Welwyn Garden City
AL8 6JL
UK
Contact person: Samuel Naxton, Senior Manager, Attain
E-mail: samuel.naxton@attain.co.uk
NUTS: UKH23
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.enhertsccg.nhs.uk
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.attain.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
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
Community Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension (OHT) Service.
Reference number: ACE-0262-2016-E&NH
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85100000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
East and North Hertfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is committed to improving local eye healthcare services across the East and North Hertfordshire area in line with its strategic ambitions that are included in the CCG's 5-year Operational Plan to support/deliver against the NHS Constitution and the NHS 5 Year Forward View.
As part of this commitment, the CCG believe that specific eye conditions can be appropriately treated in a community setting, improving the accessibility of services to patients for these conditions and thereby reducing pressure on hospital eye care providers by ensuring that only those patients that meet the referral pathway criteria for hospital eye care are referred to these services.
As such East and North Hertfordshire CCG commissioned a single Prime Provider offering Community Glaucoma and OHT services to suit the needs of the local population and integrated with hospital eye care providers to ensure seamless pathways of care.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Lowest offer:
675 000.00
GBP/ Highest offer:
1 100 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
85121200
85160000
85121281
85323000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKH23
Main site or place of performance:
East and North Hertfordshire.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Community Glaucoma and OHT Service is concerned with the implementation of a diagnosis and management pathway for glaucoma and ocular hypertension patients who have been identified in the course of a standard eye examination. It does not propose any initial changes to the current arrangements for management and treatment of patients that have been diagnosed and are being treated in secondary care.
The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) estimate that in 2015, 5 400 people in East and North Hertfordshire were living with Glaucoma. This is expected to rise to 5 680 by 2020.
In addition, the Prime Provider will be expected to develop and enhance the skills of the current primary care base eye healthcare specialists, to ensure that they are able to offer an increasing range of services in primary care. The Prime Provider will ensure that robust sub-contracts are in place with local provider optometrists/GPs/any other Healthcare providers to underpin the service provided. The contract duration term is 36 months plus an option to extend for an additional 24 months (maximum of a 5 year contract). Community Monitoring — Referrals into the service for community monitoring may in the future come from acute ophthalmology departments from hospital eye services. There is no guarantee of any activity for this service (monitoring of OHT) and before the service could commence the Prime Provider will need to demonstrate that they have successfully delivered the Patient Pathway and agreed clear pathways and governance with participatory acute trusts.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Workforce
/ Weighting: 10 %
Quality criterion: Environmental and sustainability
/ Weighting: 3 %
Quality criterion: Quality
/ Weighting: 15 %
Quality criterion: Service delivery
/ Weighting: 32 %
Quality criterion: IMT and IG
/ Weighting: 10 %
Quality criterion: Medicines management
/ Weighting: 3 %
Quality criterion: Mobilisation
/ Weighting: 12 %
Cost criterion: Commercial offer questions
/ Weighting: 15 %
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
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2016/S 233-424446
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: CGOHT-06K-01
Title: Community Glaucoma and Ocular Hypertension Services
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
19/05/2017
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 4
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Community Health and Eye Care Ltd
34 Victoria Road
Preston
PR2 8NE
UK
NUTS: UKD4
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
Lowest offer:
675 000.00
GBP
/ Highest offer:
1 100 000.00
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
NHS East and North Hertfordshire CCG
Charter House, Parkway
Welwyn Garden City
AL8 6JL
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
06/06/2017