Social and other specific services – public contracts
Contract award notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Sutton CCG
Priory Crescent, Cheam
Sutton
SM3 8LR
UK
Contact person: Kieran McGowan
Telephone: +44 7806727621
E-mail: kieran_mcgowan@nhs.net
NUTS: UKI63
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.suttonccg.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 Services
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85100000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Community Services in Sutton comprises three main services:
— Adult community nursing and therapy staff,
— Specialist community services (e.g. podiatry),
— Children’s community services.
The contract for these services was awarded to a provider from April 2016 for an initial three-year period, with the possibility to extend the contract by up to two further years, taking the overall contract period to March 2021. However, the provider has now served notice to the commissioner that it will cease provision of community services at the earliest point possible in the contract i.e. March 2019.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
33 200 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKI63
Main site or place of performance:
Borough of Sutton
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
This contract award notice provides notification that NHS Sutton Clinical Commissioning Group's Governing Body has agreed to directly award an interim, transitional contract for Sutton Community Services to the Sutton Health and Care Provider Alliance (with Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust hosting the contract) for a period of one plus one years (April 2019 to March 2021).
This interim contract is considered essential to ensure a continuity of essential service provision to the local population while new integrated care models are developed over the course of the contract in the CCG area; the CCG has assessed that the provider identified is the only capable provider at this time.
Considering the national strategy (NHS England Five Year Forward View) to implement new models of care and to reshape services across health and care around the patient in a more integrated way, the 12 month notice period gives the CCG an unrealistic timeframe to fully plan and undertake a complex re-procurement of the community services that will be fit for purpose in the future. The CCG is therefore awarding the Community Health Services contract directly to Sutton Health and Care Provider Alliance hosted by Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust as an interim transitional and stabilising arrangement. The CCG has assessed this interim solution to be a safe and logical destination to transfer the services with the existing commitment and to then work to develop a new specification of its future requirements that will need to align community healthcare services to primary care with the long term objective of transforming and integrating health and care services out of hospital.
Prior to commencing a formal procurement, essential planning work needs to be undertaken to ensure that the right services are procured with the correct quality and outcomes framework and financial incentives to ensure that services deliver the required results. This is expected to be a 12 to 24 month piece of work due to its complexity and level of transformation needed, hence the interim contract award.
The CCG is committed to inviting expressions of interest from the market at the end of this interim contract period, commencing sooner if the required documentation around specifications and outcomes is complete, such interest being invited via the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and Contracts Finder in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations (PCR) 2015 (as amended) and the NHS (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No.2) Regulations (PPCCR) 2013.
The CCG will carry out transparent market engagement in parallel with the interim contract to invite input and innovation based on evidenced successes elsewhere to inform the development of the longer term opportunity of a substantive contract. As part of this engagement process, the CCG will make available to the public interim statements and updates on the specification/co-designed models of care for proactive and preventative models of care for feedback and input.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
II.2.14) Additional information
The CCG plans to engage with the market during 2018/2019 to assist development of its future specification of requirements, with the intention of informing the process to award a substantive contract to deliver the new models of care from April 2021.
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
This interim contract is considered essential to ensure a continuity of essential service provision to the local population while new integrated care models are developed over the course of the contract in the CCG area; the CCG has assessed that the provider identified is the only capable provider at this time.
Considering the national strategy (NHS England Five Year Forward View) to implement new models of care and to reshape services across health and care around the patient in a more integrated way, the 12 month notice period gives the CCG an unrealistic timeframe to fully plan and undertake a complex re-procurement of the community services that will be fit for purpose in the future. The CCG is therefore awarding the Community Health Services contract directly to the Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust as an interim transitional and stabilising arrangement, with the Trust being part of a local provider alliance, ‘Sutton Health and Care’. The CCG has assessed this interim solution to be a safe and logical destination to transfer the services with the existing commitment and to then work to develop a new specification of its future requirements that will need to align community healthcare services to primary care with the long term objective of transforming and integrating health and care services out of hospital.
Prior to commencing a formal procurement, essential planning work needs to be undertaken to ensure that the right services are procured with the correct quality and outcomes framework and financial incentives to ensure that services deliver the required results. This is expected to be a 12 to 24 month piece of work due to its complexity and level of transformation needed, hence the interim contract award.
The CCG plans to engage with the market during 2018/2019 to assist development of its future specification of requirements, with the intention of informing the process to award a substantive contract to deliver the new models of care from April 2021.
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
13/08/2018
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
St Helier Hospital and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children
Wrythe Lane
Carshalton
SM5 1AA
UK
Telephone: +44 2082962000
NUTS: UKI63
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 33 200 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
03/09/2018