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# Special Allocation Scheme - Alternative provider medical services contract

Source: [Tenderline](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/special-allocation-scheme-alternative-provider-medical-services-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-04e93a). UK public procurement intelligence compiled from official UK procurement notices.

> **Tenderline Executive Summary:** NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD: "Special Allocation Scheme - Alternative provider medical services contract". Published status: complete. Published Value: Value not published. 1 published lot. Submission deadline not published. See the official notice for participation instructions.

## Key Information
- **Status:** COMPLETE (no submission deadline published)
- **Buyer:** [NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD](https://tenderline.uk/buyers/nhs-suffolk-and-north-east-essex-integrated-care-board-nhs-qjg)
- **Published Value:** Value not published (currency not published)
- **Submission Deadline:** Not published
- **Lots:** 1
- **Procurement Method:** Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- **Main Category:** services
- **Classifications (CPV):** Health services
- **Delivery Location:** UKH14, UKH34
- **Legal Basis:** CELEX 32014L0024
- **Awarded Value:** £1,207,174 (exc. VAT, 1 contract)
- **OCID:** `ocds-h6vhtk-04e93a`

## Before you bid
Deciding whether to bid? The Tenderline page for this tender carries the competition and buyer analysis this notice does not:

- **Expected competition:** how many bids lots like this attract, from past awards in the same market.
- **Who could compete:** suppliers who have won similar work, and who holds the current contract.
- **Buyer track record:** earlier work for this buyer, its unexpired awards, and how its awards compared with its estimates.
- **Price forecast:** the commercial price range for each lot, with the middle 50% of comparable awards.

- **What it takes to win:** selection and award criteria, lot by lot.
- **Contract history:** what this tender replaces, and every notice in the procedure.

[Open the competition and buyer analysis](https://tenderline.uk/tenders/special-allocation-scheme-alternative-provider-medical-services-contract-ocds-h6vhtk-04e93a#tl-md)

## Description
The Special Allocation Scheme (SAS) is a Directed Enhanced Service (DES) with an identified budget. Provision for SAS is set out in the NHS General Medical Services Contracts Regulations 2015 and is mandatory for the ICB to commission. The SAS allows Commissioners to balance the rights of patients to receive services from GPs with the need to ensure that specified persons, including GPs, their staff, patients, and others on the premises, deliver and receive those services without actual or threatened violence or other reasonable fear for their safety.

## Lots (1)
### Lot 1: Untitled lot
- **Lot id:** `1`
- **Status:** complete

- **Delivery regions:** UKH

- **Description:** Primary medical care services - Special Allocation Scheme
Start date 01 April 2025 
End date 31 March 2029
Contract term - 4 + 2 years. 
This contract term has been identified as the maximum allowable due to the original contract term being 5 years. ...

- **Options published:** yes

## Awards & Winning Suppliers (1)
- **Award:** 007786-2025-1 (active)

  - Supplier(s): **Essex Partnership University Trust (EPUT)**
  - Supplier identifiers: `GB-NHS-R1L`
  - Value: £1,207,174 † (exc. VAT)

> † value taken from the contract record; the award notice published none.

## Contracts (1)
- **Contract:** 007786-2025-1 (active)
  - Signed Value: £1,207,174
  - Signed Date: 11/11/2024

## Provenance and Official Sources
- **Official Notice:** [Find a Tender notice](/out?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.find-tender.service.gov.uk%2FNotice%2F010408-2025)
- **Last Source Update:** 2025-03-20T13:53:11.000Z
- **This document generated:** 2026-10-23T17:57:37.378Z
- **Machine API:** https://tenderline.uk/api/public/tenders/ocds-h6vhtk-04e93a