Official UK procurement notice
Bromley Tailored Dispensing Service
Authority: South East London Integrated Care Board (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe Tailored Dispensing Service (TDS) was commissioned in 2018, through an AQP exercise and contracts were awarded for 3 years with an option to extend for 2 further years, which has now been enacted.
In order to access the TDS service, a referral is sent to the TDS pharmacy from the Bromley Medicine Optimisation Service (BMOS). BMOS will have received a referral from a GP, hospital, community service, or other member of health or social care staff, who feel that their patient would benefit from having a reasonable adjustment aid dispensed.
BMOS comprises of a holistic assessment, usually in the patient's own home, of the patient's medicines routine to identify and address medicines compliance issues.
The Bromley TDS is provided by 40 community pharmacies. The contract is activity and defined tariff based. The annual contract value is £308,000. This value will be inclusive of all activity, consumables, tariffs, and all associated management fees for both the Lead Provider and the TDS Contractors
The TDS currently provide a service that:
- Supports patients to manage their own medicines and maintain independence.
- Improves patients' understanding of their medicines and improve adherence.
- Undertakes clinical medication review of patients identified as having a medicines-related problem.
- Reduces the number of inappropriate drugs prescribed using evidence-based tools.
- Reduces the number of adverse drug events experienced.
- Reduces medicines waste.
- Works collaboratively with other health and social care professionals to support and implement personalised tailored interventions for individual patient needs.
- Continuously works with the ICB and social care to develop and implement guidance/policies on medicines administration support.
- Reduces the risks of harm caused by medicine regimens or inadvertent reconciliation errors.
This VEAT is to inform the market of the ICB's intention to direct award a contract to the South East London Community Pharmacy Fed.
The Fed is to provide a management role and will sub-contract to individual community pharmacies, ensuring continuity of current service provision and providing an opportunity for new TDS providers to deliver services as a sub-contractor to the South East London Community Pharmacy Fed.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 3 May 2023, 16:41 BST
- Last source update
- 3 May 2023, 16:41 BST
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-012707- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-03c619Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The rationale for the direct award to the South East London Community Pharmacy Fed is based on the following service requirements/criteria:
- Local provider within the London Borough of Bromley.
- The South East London Community Pharmacy Fed is an organisation across south east London with community pharmacy contractors being members.
- All pharmacy contractors in Bromley are, will be, or are eligible to become members of the South East London Community Pharmacy Fed and thereby TDS providers.
- All pharmacies will have a choice of whether they want to be full members or affiliated members:
Full members - actively engaged in the South East London Community Pharmacy Fed
Affiliated members - part of the South East London Community Pharmacy Fed just to provide services.
- Therefore, the commissioned lead provider must already have existing established relationship with the pharmacies in Bromley to ensure continuity current arrangement and minimise any disruptions to supply.
- The lead provider must have a detailed understanding of community pharmacy services, the NHS England community pharmacy contractual framework, and future developments for community pharmacy.
- The lead provider must have a detailed understanding of risks, issues and opportunities within community pharmacy in south east London and Bromley
- The lead provider must be able to establish and manage sub-contracts with all current TDS providers, as well as community pharmacy providers in Bromley that wish to start TDS and can meet the service requirements.
- The lead provider must be able to engage all Bromley community pharmacy contractors (both TDS and non-TDS) in communications, education and training opportunities.
- The lead provider must be able to collate all TDS activity, finance and performance data, collated from PharmOutcomes and report the aggregated data to the Commissioner.
- The lead provider must ensure that all reporting templates are uploaded and updated on PharmOutcomes
- The lead provider must be able to submit all necessary reporting and invoicing within the agreed timescales
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| South East London Community Pharmacy Fed LtdSMEThe Bromley Tailored Dispensing ServiceSubcontracting: declared | £1,540,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
The Bromley Tailored Dispensing Service · South East London Community Pharmacy Fed LtdSME
- Signed
- 28 Apr 2023
- Value
- £1,540,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NHS London Commercial Hub - hosted by NHS NELReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- South East London Community Pharmacy Fed LtdAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.