Provision of Virtual Ward General Practitioner Services
What is being bought
The Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust ("the Authority") sought to procure and collaborate with a provider that can resource General Practitioners across the SCFT footprint to work closely with the Trust’s UCR teams.<br/><br/>The expectation is to embed the GPs within each UCR team with support broken down in a hybrid model of ‘On site’ face to face working, ‘Virtual’ support and ‘On Call cover to each UCR team base they are allocated to, each with an expectation to be able to do any urgent patient visits at the patient’s place of residence (within Sussex).<br/><br/>This requirement is paramount to the delivery of the pathway to keep acute patients safely out of hospital and at the place they call home.<br/><br/>The Authority intends to award a contract, following a Most Suitable Provider Process, in accordance with The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 (“PSR 2023”).
Categories
Comparable-procurement analytics
Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is General-practitioner services (85121100); 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 set | Procedures | Reported bids per procedure | Named award suppliers | Price evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market: CPV division 85 | 38,373 | 1 median · 19.7 average (22,930 of 38,373 with a bid count) | 1.8 average (24,592 of 38,373 with named award suppliers) | 10 comparable price pairs |
| Same buyer | 7 | 4 median · 4 average (1 of 7 with a bid count) | 1 average (1 of 7 with named award suppliers) | Not published |
“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.
Price-outcome signal
Not enough comparable procedures currently publish both a GBP tender value and a usable lowest-valid-bid value to calculate a responsible price-reduction benchmark. Tenderline deliberately does not infer a saving from named award suppliers or from missing award values.
Procurement strategy & market signals
Planning & early market engagement
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.
| OCID | ocds-h6vhtk-04c623 |
|---|---|
| Latest release ID | 000444-2025 |
| Latest release timestamp | Wed Jan 08 2025 10:01:21 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Source | find-a-tender |
| Official notice URL | Not published |
| Tender status | Not published |
| Procurement method | Not published |
| Procurement method details | Not published |
| Main procurement category | services |
| Above threshold | Not published |
| Legal basis | 32014L0024 |
| Tender period: start | Not published |
| Tender period: end | Not published |
| Expression of interest deadline | Not published |
| Enquiry deadline | Not published |
| Award period: start | Not published |
| Award period: end | Not published |
| Submission method details | Not published |
| Submission languages | Not published |
| Electronic catalogue policy | Not published |
| Total tender value | Not published |
| Tender lots in source | 0 |
| Tender items in source | 0 |
| Tender documents in source | 0 |
| Awards in latest release | 0 |
| Contracts in latest release | 0 |
| Parties in latest release | 1 |
Notice history
| Date | Event | Reference |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Jan 2025 | tenderUpdate | 000444-2025 |
| 10 Dec 2024 | award, contract | 039810-2024 |
All source data
Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.
Complete current OCDS release JSON
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8 Jan 2025 · 000444-2025 · tenderUpdate
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