Norfolk County Council

County Hall, Martineau Lane

Norwich

NR12DH

UK

E-mail: sourcingteam@norfolk.gov.uk

NUTS: UKH15

Internet address(es)

Main address: https://www.norfolk.gov.uk/

II.1.1) Title

Reference number: NCCT42706

II.1.2) Main CPV code

85323000

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

This notice is an intention to award notice under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 - Direct Award Process C.

Norfolk County Council wishes to procure a service to support people across Norfolk at most risk of poor sexual and reproductive health outcomes to improve and maintain their sexual and reproductive health and relationship wellbeing. This is in line with the Norfolk & Waveney Integrated Care System's Health Inequalities Strategic Framework for Action (2024-34) and UK Health Security Agency's Health Equity for Health Security Strategy (2023-26) to achieve more equitable health security outcomes and narrow the health inequalities gap

The service will be responsible for delivery of a comprehensive range of evidence-based services, to support the sexual and reproductive health related needs of adults. This will include a flexible range of programmes and interventions across all modalities in each locality.

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

II.1.7) Total value of the procurement

Value excluding VAT: 61 000 000.00  GBP

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition

Justification for selected award procedure:

New works/services, constituting a repetition of existing works/services and ordered in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the Directive

Explanation

The process followed was Direct Award C under the Provider Selection Regime ( award to an existing provider). The term of the existing contract for Specialist Level 3 & Prevention Services is due to expire on 31 March 2026 and Norfolk County Council proposes that a new contract is put in place to replace the existing contract at the end of its term. This is not a procurement for a Framework Agreement.

The standstill will start on 21 November and will finish on 2 December being 8 working days following the date of publication of this notice.

No conflicts of interest were declared for this procurement.

The decision makers are:- Assistant Director, Public Health Commissioning and Head of Complex Transactions and Sourcing.

A panel from Norfolk County Council was formed to decide whether taking into account the key criteria and applying the basic selection criteria, whether it was content that the existing provider is satisfying the original contract. The panel assessed amongst other matters, KPI performance and financial performance and concluded that the existing provider is satisfying the original contract to a sufficient standard. Basic selection criteria ( as per Schedule 16 of the Act) was also passed by Cambridge Community Services. The panel also assessed that the considerable change threshold as defined in the Act had not been met.

Norfolk County Council then assessed whether Cambridgeshire Community Services will likely satisfy the proposed new contract to a sufficient standard. On reviewing Cambridge Community Services method statements for the proposed new contract, the panel assessed these as good, meeting the material requirements of the specification, evidencing good practice and being detailed and clear about what would be delivered and how.

The panel were therefore content that the tests for a Direct Award 1C had been met and that a contract should provisionally be offered to Cambridgeshire Community Services

The contract is for 10 years.

IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No

Cambridgeshire Community Services NHS TRUST

1108920

Unit 7 & 8, Meadow Park, Meadow Lane

St. Ives

PE27 4LG

UK

NUTS: UKH12

The contractor is an SME: No

VI.4.1) Review body

VI.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

Any representations ( as per the Health Care Services ( Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 should be received by midnight on 2nd November 2025. This gives time for any provider who might otherwise have been a provider of the services to which the contract relates to make representations; and for the council to consider those representations and respond as appropriate. If following the council's review of its representations a provider wishes to request that the Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel considers its representations, then it must submit its request using a pro forma published by the panel within 5 working days of receiving the council's decision.