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title: "Cataract Service"
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# Cataract Service

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cataract-service-ocds-h6vhtk-04c022). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NHS SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD: "Cataract Service". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NHS SUSSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nhs-sussex-integrated-care-board-nhs-qnx)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health services
- **Delivery Location:** UKJ2
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £22,399,192 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04c022`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/cataract-service-ocds-h6vhtk-04c022#tl-md)

## Description
The Provider will: 
•	Deliver high quality and value for money cataract services that reflect the best practice guidance set out by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Getting it Right First Time and the NHSE National Eye Care Recovery and Transformation Programme (NECRTP) and NICE. 
•	Maintain capacity to support the overall commissioned activity of the ICS, thus ensuring delivery of the national 18-week referral to treatment (RTT) cataract pathway and reduction in waiting list backlogs. 
•	Maintain access to cataract services in accessible hospital and community settings, that provides care closer to home, improves choice, delivers greater consistency and equity in access to services across the localities. 
The key objectives of the service are: 
•	To ensure the provision of safe and effective cataract service provision to NHS patients  
•	To free up outpatient and primary eye care capacity for patients at higher risk of sight loss 
•	To ensure the delivery of training for the next generation of consultant ophthalmologists through equitable delivery of training to NHS trainees in all providers of NHS cataract surgery 
•	To ensure Service Users with urgent post-surgery issues and complications can be advised and managed by the Provider's own surgical ophthalmic team with any requirement and resource for other providers to support this clearly agreed. 
•	To achieve, and drive improvements in, the NECRTP high flow cataract pathway.  
This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Award Notice (via Direct Award B).

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete
- **CPV codes:** 85100000
- **Delivery regions:** UKJ

- **Description:** The Provider will: 
•	Deliver high quality and value for money cataract services that reflect the best practice guidance set out by the Royal College of Ophthalmologists, Getting it Right First Time and the NHSE National Eye Care Recovery and Transfo...

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 038162-2024-C283651-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **SpaMedica Ltd**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-COH-06644293`
  - Value: £22,399,192 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 038162-2024-C283651-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £22,399,192
  - Signed Date: 22/11/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F038162-2024)
- **Last Source Update:** 2024-11-26T13:52:47.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-27T22:35:57.481Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04c022