Social and other specific services – public contracts
Contract award notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Medway Clinical Commissioning Group
Unit A, Compass Centre North, Pembroke Road, Chatham Maritime, Kent
Chatham
ME4 4YG
UK
Contact person: Sharease Gibson
E-mail: medway.ccg@nhs.net
NUTS: UKJ41
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.medwayccg.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
Community Health Services
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85100000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Community health services help people get well and stay well either in their own home or close to home. They have a number of objectives, including:
— promoting health and healthy behaviours,
— supporting people to manage long term conditions such as diabetes,
— providing treatment in a setting that avoids hospital or residential care wherever possible,
— community health services are defined as those provided outside of hospitals in community settings, including in people’s homes and in community clinics.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
43 404 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKJ41
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Direct award of an interim contract for a period of 12 months, with an option to extend for a further 12 months, to enable the CCG to facilitate the development of an integrated care partnership in the Medway and Swale area and the formation and development of primary care networks. The development of the integrated care partnership and primary care networks will help the CCG to meet the ambitions of the NHS long term plan, which was published in January 2019 and set out priorities for the NHS in England. Following which, in 2022, the CCG intends to commence procurement of a new Community Services contract and transfer these services to the future provider of community services. Recognising its obligations and responsibilities under the NHS (Procurement Patient Choice and Competition (No 2) Regulations 2013, the CCG has assessed the most appropriate route to awarding this contract, having regard to the necessity to secure continuity of these essential patient services and has concluded that the incumbent provider will assure the safest solution and being considered the only technically capable provider at this time.
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 services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason: absence of competition for technical reasons
Explanation
Direct award of an interim contract for a period of 12 months, with an option to extend for a further 12 months, to enable the CCG to facilitate the development of an integrated care partnership in the Medway and Swale area and the formation and development of primary care networks. The development of the integrated care partnership and primary care networks will help the CCG to meet the ambitions of the NHS long term plan, which was published in January 2019 and set out priorities for the NHS in England. Following which, in 2022, the CCG intends to commence procurement of a new community services contract and transfer these services to the future provider of community services. Recognising its obligations and responsibilities under the NHS (Procurement Patient Choice and Competition (No 2) Regulations 2013, the CCG has assessed the most appropriate route to awarding this contract, having regard to the necessity to secure continuity of these essential patient services and has concluded that the incumbent provider will assure the safest solution and being considered the only technically capable provider at this time.
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
31/07/2019
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
Medway Community Healthcare
MCH House, Bailey Drive
Gillingham
ME8 0PZ
UK
NUTS: UKJ41
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 43 404 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
12/11/2019