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Norfolk and Waveney NHS111, CAS and Primary Care Out of Hours Services

Buyer: NHS NORFOLK AND WAVENEY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD →

BuyerNHS NORFOLK AND WAVENEY INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
StatusAwarded
DeadlineNot published
ValueValue not published
Published24 Jul 2024

What is being bought

NHS111, CAS and Primary Care Out of Hours Services

Delivery location

UKH1

Categories

Health services 85100000

Lot details

Lot 1

NHS111 aims to ensure patients with an urgent clinical need are assessed and referred to an appropriate service, in a timely manner, by providing health advice and onward referral over the telephone and online. The NHS111 service will deliver a safe and patient focused service that promotes quality and reduces health inequalities. Objectives of the service will include; Achieve nationally and locally mandated KPIs and quality measures. Expedite patient access to appropriate end point services. Provide a CAS that manage high level of clinical validation for lower Acuity Ambulance and ED dispositions. Ensure the Directory of Services (DoS) is maintained in partnership with local system and used to facilitate timely and appropriate levels of care. Provision of Primary Care OOH care in that OOH period. Provision of face to face locations for OOH to see patients. Provision of roving visiting service for patients that require a visit during the OOH period. It is the intention of NHS Norfolk and Waveney ICB to award a contract to the existing service provider following the Provider Selection Regime Direct Award Process C. It should be noted that the PSR Direct Award Process C is being utilised to ensure service stability in the short to medium term in order finalise the future model, particularly in relation to the inclusion of the regional Single Virtual Call Centre (SVCC). It is the longer term intention of Norfolk and Waveney ICB to undertake a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Competitive Process to formally test the market and implement a longer-term contract. The term of the contract will be for an initial period of 2 years from 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2027, with the option to extend for a further 12 months to 31st March 2028. The approximate lifetime value of the contract (including the extension option period) will be £56.1m excluding inflationary uplifts.

Statuscancelled

Award criteria
The existing provider is satisfying the original contract and will likely satisfy the proposed contract to a sufficient standard — 100

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 Health services (85100000); 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 8538,3731 median · 19.7 average (22,929 of 38,373 with a bid count)1.8 average (24,591 of 38,373 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer82 median · 2 average (1 of 8 with a bid count)1 average (1 of 8 with named award suppliers)Not published
Delivery region: UKH11521 median · 7.6 average (49 of 152 with a bid count)1.5 average (54 of 152 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

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleThis is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight on 5th August 2024. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.
Rationale classificationsThe procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Special regimeNot published
Covered byGPA
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.

Awards

Contracts

023102-2024-1

Statusactive
Value£56,100,000

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-048454
Latest release ID023102-2024
Latest release timestampWed Jul 24 2024 15:53:49 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statuscomplete
Procurement methodlimited
Procurement method detailsAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
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 valueNot published
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release1
Contracts in latest release1
Parties in latest release3

Notice history

DateEventReference
24 Jul 2024award, contract023102-2024

All source data

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

Complete current OCDS release JSON
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Complete JSON history (1 releases)
24 Jul 2024 · 023102-2024 · award, contract
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