Official UK procurement notice
Central Bedfordshire (4 Practices) PCN DES 2022/23
Authority: NHS BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group (NHS & healthcare)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis is a voluntary ex ante transparency notice and is intended to provide notice of NHS BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group intention to award a contract for a PCN service ( to cover four practice populations who have opted out of the PCN DES) of £1,242,556 to Lea Vale Medical Group for a period of 10 months to commence in June 2022.
CPV: General-practitioner services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedWhat it takes to wini
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Evaluation split and conditions of participation as published; the tender pack may add morei
How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
Published award criteria (2)
- Quality: 100
- Price: 100
- Price carries 100 of 200 points: a 10% discount moves about 10 points. This one is won on the number: sharpen the price before polishing the prose.
Price arithmetic assumes straight proportional scoring; the tender pack may use another formula.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Procedure method
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 26 May 2022, 17:10 BST
- Last source update
- 26 May 2022, 17:10 BST
- Authority reference
ACE-0594-2022-BLMK- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-014812- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-034082Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
No tenders or no suitable tenders/requests to participate in response to open procedure; The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons; Extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable for the contracting authority/entity and in accordance with the strict conditions stated in the directive
- Published justification
BLMK CCG has awarded a ten-month contract for a PCN DES without prior publication:
This was strictly necessary for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority, as the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation could not be complied with:
In terms of the circumstances, these were:
Four practices Central Bedfordshire Practices have opted out of the Network DES at short notice
(i) There is a necessity to ensure continuity of service to the patients of those four practices as their patients must still be able to benefit from the services provided for under the Network DES
(ii) BLMK CCG does not have the time to run a formal procurement given the immediacy of needing to ensure continuity of service
(iii) The services needed to be provided by another PCN within a reasonably close geographical location to the four practices, and that after an initial exploration of options there was no wider expression of interest.
The contract is only being awarded for a short-term period of 10 Months (part year) to align with the national Network DES (which is itself a year-on-year contract).
Publisher note: The Contracting Authority participating in the publication of this VEAT and the award of the contract communicated herein is: NHS BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lea Vale Medical GroupSubcontracting: declared | £1,242,556 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Central Bedfordshire (4 Practices) PCN DES 2022/23 · Lea Vale Medical Group
- Signed
- 31 Mar 2022
- Value
- £1,242,556
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- High Court of Justice of England and WalesReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Lea Vale Medical GroupAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.