Insourcing of ENT Services

CPV: Health services

Bids received

47 bids received · 79 suppliers appointed

Procedure method

Restricted procedure

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

Framework agreement

Who may use this agreement

Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority

Competition type

Competitive procedure

GPA / WTO covered

Yes (GPA)

Recurring procurement

Unspecified in notice

First published

1 Nov 2023, 15:34 GMT

Last source update

10 Feb 2025, 15:02 GMT

FTS notice number

2025/S 000-004364

Classification (CPV)

Health services

Delivery area

UKWest Midlands (UKG22)

Official registry OCID

ocds-h6vhtk-04110a Find a Tender

Why no open competition

The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

Published justification

The award of the Framework Agreement was awarded under the Light Touch Regime ('LTR'). This was conducted in accordance with regulations 74 to 77 of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015). Pursuant to the published competition rules set out in the original tender, the Framework Agreement can be re-opened under the light touch regime at specific points during the term of the Framework Agreement. New suppliers will only be awarded contracts for the remaining term of the Framework Agreement.

NHS Shared Business Services intends to re-open competition in accordance with the Framework Agreement rules. Please note, the original Commercial Schedule requested bidders to submit example costs based on a given scenario to enable the pricing element of the tender to be evaluated. NHS SBS is proposing to amend the pricing element when reopening competition. The new pricing element of the tender will be based on bidders proposed discount off Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs). The re-opened tender will therefore use HRG codes from '2022/23 National Tariff Payment System: Annex-A - National tariff workbook'.

Within the National Health Service (NHS), a HRG is a grouping consisting of patient events that have been judged to consume a similar level of resource. For example, there are several different knee-related procedures that all require similar levels of resource; they may all be assigned to one HRG.

HRGs acts as the 'currency' of Payment by Results (PbR) for admitted patient care, outpatient procedures and Accident and Emergency (A&E) attendances. In context of PbR, 'currency' refers to the units of healthcare for which a payment is made.

HRGs can be derived for the following areas:

Admitted Patient Care

• Non-Admitted Consultations
• Emergency Medicine
• Adult Critical Care
• Paediatric Critical Care
• Neonatal Critical Care
• Renal

We believe this to be the most appropriate approach to commercial evaluations for this service and provides clear process for evaluation.

NHS SBS also intends to clarify by updating the requirements of the Award Questionnaire, specifically the question relating to "Fighting Climate Change". This clarification will resolve misinterpretations and provide a clear explanation to ensure bidders' responses can be evaluated in line with the scoring methodology.

In relation to bidder's adherence to the Vaccination as a Condition of Deployment within the Award Questionnaire, the original tender asked bidders to provide a written 500-word response to be evaluated in line with the published scoring methodology. NHS SBS have reviewed this approach and intend to apply a variation to the scoring methodology within the reopening of the tender based on a Yes or No response from bidders. Responses to this question will either score 100% of the weighted award criteria or score 0% of the weighted award criteria.

The remainder of the Award Questionnaire remains unchanged.

Publisher note: Framework Agreement commencement date: 08/10/2024 Framework Agreement End Date: 02/07/2027 Term: 32 months 24 days The value provided in II.1.7 is only an estimate. NHS SBS cannot guarantee to successful Suppliers any business through this Framework Agreement. Spend and volumes may vary throughout the life of the Framework Agreement from the anticipated levels given in this notice. We are unable to break down the anticipated value for each lot hence sections V.2.4 each use the total value for the framework agreement as included in section II.1.7. Some purchases under this Framework Agreement may have requirements that can be met under this Framework Agreement but the purchase of which may be exempt from the Procurement Regulations. In such cases, Call-off Contracts from this Framework will be unregulated purchases for the purposes of the Procurement Regulations, and Approved Organisations may, at their discretion, modify the terms and conditions of any Call-off Contracts to reflect that Approved Organisation's specific needs.

43 suppliers are admitted to this framework without individual award values or dates, see the supplier list below.

The first 50 of 80 commercial parties (by name); the JSON mirror lists them all.

• 1 Clinical LtdFramework contractorGB-COH: 15309314 Ripley House, Firs Park, Harrogate, UK, HG2 9HS
• 18 Week Support LtdFramework contractorGB-COH: 11880370 19-21 Great Tower Street, London, UK, EC3R 5ARContact phoneShow contact details
• AM Diagnostic Imaging LtdFramework contractorGB-COH: 13708069 48 Mary Street, Stanley, UK, DH9 0NQ
• Agile Workforce Services LtdFramework contractorGB-COH: 12072400 5th Floor, London, UK, EC2R 5ARContact phoneShow contact details
• Alimentary Solutions LimitedFramework contractorGB-COH: 1-4298280985 Floor 1, Capital House, 8 Pittman Court, Pittman Way, Fulwood, Preston, Lancashire, UK, PR2 9ZGContact phoneShow contact details
• Alliance Health GroupFramework contractorGB-COH: 5221843 Floor 11 54 Hagley Road, Birmingham, UK, B16 8PEContact phoneShow contact details
• Arevna LimitedFramework contractorGB-COH: 11407187 71-75 Shelton Street, London, UK, WC2H 9JQ
• Atlas Diagnostics LimitedFramework contractorGB-COH: 07882951 Suite 1.2 Tomorrow Building, Media City Uk, Salford, UK, M50 2AB
• Bespoke Healthcare LimitedFramework contractorGB-COH: 5886937 2 Wyder Court, Preston, Lancashire, UK, PR2 5BWContact phoneShow contact details
• Cardiarhythm LtdFramework contractorGB-COH: 13683803 Top Ouse, Totties Lane, Totties, Holmfirth, UK, HD9 1UL

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