Official UK procurement notice
Pre-Term Birth Recruitment · UK public procurement notice
Authority: GENOMICS ENGLAND LIMITED (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionRecruitment of participants to a national diversity and genomic pre-term birth project
CPV: Administrative healthcare services · Services furnished by specialist organisations
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1Provide critical resource at recruiting sites to ensure study set up is completed in a…
Provide critical resource at recruiting sites to ensure study set up is completed in a timely fashion, through the provision of operations and logistics support.
Provide critical resourcing, through research midwives, for the consenting (prospectively) and reconsenting (retrospectively) of participants in preterm birth clinics.
Provide the best possible route to ensuring that a meaningful number of participants are recruited into the study, increasing the likelihood of impactful, and translational research.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- 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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 24 Apr 2024, 21:27 BST
- Last source update
- 24 Apr 2024, 21:27 BST
- Authority reference
GEL-RE-704-24- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-013370- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-0454f8Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator due to absence of competition for technical reasons
- Published justification
The Contracting Authority (i) has a legal personality; (ii) is mainly funded by the Department of Health and Social Care; and (iii) has been established for the specific purpose of meeting needs in the general interest, and does not have an industrial or commercial character and therefore meets the definition of a "body governed by public law" under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("PCR"). The PCR covers "public contracts" which means contracts for pecuniary interest which have as their object the execution of works, the supply of products or the provision of services. The Contract is a services contract under PCR, therefore, caught by the PCR and therefore bound to follow public procurement rules.
Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) PCR describes the single operator exclusion and is the premise for this award without prior publication. This specific exclusion relates to a requirement to access a national network for pre-term birth, which is run by Imperial College. As such the services in question cannot be obtained by any other economic operator.
The Contracting Authority will enter into a contract with Imperial College London following the conclusion of a minimum 10 day standstill period from the date of issue of this notice. The 10 day standstill period will end on 07/05/20224 at 23.59 BST, enabling a contract to be signed on 08/05/2024.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial College LondonSubcontracting: declared | £1,300,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Pre-Term Birth Recruitment · Imperial College London
- Signed
- 24 Apr 2024
- Value
- £1,300,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The High CourtReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Imperial College LondonAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.