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HWE ICB, ENHT - Microbiology and Virology Services

Buyer: NHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board →

BuyerNHS Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board
Statusplanned
DeadlineNot published
Value£4,500,000
Published1 Nov 2023

What is being bought

The Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (the “ICB”) and East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (the “Trust”) are seeking Microbiology and Virology Services for GP Direct Access work and non-urgent tests for the Trust (the “Contract”).<br/><br/>The Contract is to replace an existing contract that is being terminated and will run until a procurement is completed to establish a full Pathology Network Service across the Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care System area.

Delivery location

UKH

Categories

Pathology services 85111800

Lot details

Lot 1

The Microbiology and Virology Services under the Contract must start on 1 April 2024.<br/><br/>It is anticipated that the term of the Contract will be for one year with options to extend for two periods of six months although final details will be confirmed in any future procurement process.<br/> <br/>The GP Direct Access work is for approximately 38 practices or Health Centres within the area of the former East and North Hertfordshire CCG. <br/><br/>The tests total in excess of 400,000 per annum. The breakdown for the last full year is available on request.<br/><br/>The Service must be running by 31st March 2024 and will include:<br/>• Testing Service.<br/>• Logistics to collect samples from GP practices and the Trust.<br/>• Supplier LIMS connected to the Trust and GP via ICE Order Communications to enable ordering of tests and communication of results.<br/><br/>Taking account of the above and the short time available to the ICB and the Trust to run a procurement process, anyone with experience of delivering large scale volumes of Microbiology and Virology tests to NHS organisations and who could deliver the Services under the Contract from 1 April 2024 should respond to this notice by 22nd November 2023.<br/><br/>This will then inform the ICB and Trust’s procurement strategy for the Contract. The ICB and Trust anticipate that an accelerated procurement process could be required. Additional information: Please note that this is not a call for competition and no Contract will be awarded as a result of this pre-market engagement exercise.<br/><br/>Following market engagement, should the ICB and Trust need to run a competitive procurement exercise, a further notice will be published in Find a Tender to start any formal procurement process.<br/><br/>Any resulting procurement process that starts prior to 1 January 2024 will be subject to the so-called “Light Touch Regime” under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. <br/><br/>The ICB and the Trust are not responsible for any costs incurred by interested parties participating in this market engagement exercise.<br/><br/>This market engagement is being administered via the Atamis e-Tendering Portal (https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome) - ref C220900. Interested parties should contact the named buyer via email to martyn.richardson@nhs.net.

Statusplanned

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Not publishedNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Pathology services (85111800); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8526,6411 median · 24.8 average (14,494 of 26,641 with a bid count)1.9 average (15,743 of 26,641 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer421 median · 1.2 average (23 of 42 with a bid count)1 average (24 of 42 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKH3461 median · 12.6 average (142 of 346 with a bid count)1.7 average (153 of 346 with named award suppliers)1 comparable price pairs
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)8564 median · 19 average (26 of 856 with a bid count)1.9 average (26 of 856 with named award suppliers)2 comparable price pairs

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Indicative price outcome

£2,927,698 is the median lowest-valid-bid benchmark for the broad CPV market sample, against this procedure’s published value of £4,500,000.

This is a historical comparator, not a bid-price forecast or a guaranteed saving. It excludes records where the published values cannot be sensibly compared and does not adjust for lot structure, quality weighting, framework terms or scope.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetNot published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents0
Planning milestones0

No planning milestones published.

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

No documents are published in the current source record.

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-0410f0
Latest release ID032302-2023
Latest release timestampWed Nov 01 2023 13:11:42 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanned
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdNot published
Legal basis32014L0024
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£4,500,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
1 Nov 2023planning032302-2023

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
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