Voluntary ex ante transparency notice
Directive 2014/24/EU
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group
Riverside House, Goldcrest Way, Newburn Riverside (Business Park)
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE15 8NY
UK
E-mail: necsu.neprocurement@nhs.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.newcastlegatesheadccg.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
Targeted Lung Health Check Programme
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85100000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
Programme for early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
10 250 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKC
Main site or place of performance:
Newcastle upon Tyne and Gateshead
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
A 4 year programme to identify and invite participants for a lung health check, low dose CT scanning from mobile vans (where relevant) and follow - up and recall.
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
II.2.14) Additional information
Relevant, identified participants will be invited to free lung checks over a period of 3 years until March 2021. Those assessed as high risk will be offered a low-dose CT scan. The remaining 2 years of the programme will focus on follow-up surveillance scans.
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 procurement falls outside the scope of application of the Directive
Explanation:
The Contracting Authority intends to vary its contract with Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust the provision of Article 72 of Directive 2014/24/EU. Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust currently provides a range of health services and the proposed variation will be made under Article 72 (i) (c):
(a) the Contracting Authority could not reasonably foresee all allocation of funding for the programe ahead of its contracting round;
(b) the modification will not alter the overall contract; and
(c) the increase in value does not represent more than a 50 % increase in the original contract value.
Further or alternatively, the modification is not substantial under Article 72 (4) because the modification does not introduce conditions which would have allowed for different tenderers or tenders and the scope of the contract is not to be considerably extended Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will procure mobile scanning vans from a framework compliant with directive 2014/24/EU.
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
Section V: Award of contract/concession
V.2 Award of contract/concession
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract/concession
04/09/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospital Foundation Trust
Freeman Hospital, Freeman Road, High Heaton
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE7 7DN
UK
NUTS: UKC
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the concession and main financing terms (excluding VAT)
Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot/concession: 10 250 000.00 GBP
Total value of the concession/lot:
10 250 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract/concession is likely to be subcontracted
Short description of the part of the contract to be subcontracted:
The mobile scanning requirements will be procured through an EU complaint framework.
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Newcastle Gateshead CCG intends to enter into a contract with Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for the delivery of Targeted Lung Health Check Programme on whichever is the later date:
1) upon completion of a 10 day standstill period which will commence on the date after the publication of this Notice, or
2) after midnight on 18.9.2019.
NOTE: To register your interest in this notice and obtain any additional information please visit the myTenders Web Site at https://www.mytenders.co.uk/Search/Search_Switch.aspx?ID=216836.
(MT Ref:216836)
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
North of England Commissioning Support
Teesdale House, Thornaby
Stockton on Tees
TS17 6BL
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provides that aggrieved parties who have been harmed, or are at risk of harm, by breach of the rules are to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
06/09/2019