Official UK procurement notice
Termination of Pregnancy and Central Booking Services
Authority: NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU)is working on behalf of NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board(ICB) to publish this Voluntary Ex-Ante Transparency (VEAT) notice, for the award of a contract for the Termination of Pregnancy and Central Booking Services.
The ICB wish to directly award a contract to the incumbent provider for the following period:
Contract Start Date: 1st April 2023
Contract End Date: 31 March 2026
The maximum contract value for the 3 years is £4,182,000.
The service is for the provision of community-based Termination of Pregnancy and Central Booking Services across Cheshire and Merseyside to include medical and surgical options up to the maximum legal gestation period. The service will also include the provision of Termination of Pregnancy and Central Booking Service. The provider will offer local face to face clinics, to be delivered in Liverpool, Chester, Warrington, St Helens.
Patients may choose to access advice and treatment from other provider locations across England via the Provider's central booking tele-hub service.
Following the publication of this notice, a Contract Award Notice will also be published.
CPV: Health services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB wishes to inform the market of its action to directly…
NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB wishes to inform the market of its action to directly award for local Termination of Pregnancy and Central Booking Services. The current contracted services expired on 31st March 2023. The ICB are awarding a contract for a period of 36 months until31st March 2026. Additional information: NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB wishes to inform the market of its action to directly award for local Termination of Pregnancy and Central Booking Services. The current contracted services expired on 31stMarch 2023. The ICB are awarding a contract for a period of 36 months until31st March 2026.
In line with the requirement to offer patient choice of provider, any approaches from potential new providers of consultant led, medical and surgical termination of pregnancy and central booking services in our region, who could meet the required specification and standards, would be considered on a case-by-case basis.
The expected aims/outcomes of the service are:
- To offer and provide a high-quality termination of pregnancy service, at all stages of the patient journey, in terms of: acceptability, accessibility, effectiveness, efficiency and appropriateness to need as part of an integrated high quality sexual health service.
- To provide abortions to women at the earliest gestation practicable (within the terms of the 1967 Abortion Act) through increasing provision of both early medical and local surgical abortions.
- To offer choice of early medical and surgical abortions (depending on client's gestation) to provide a local service as an option for Early Medical Abortions. The DOH rationale is that 'The earlier in pregnancy an abortion is performed the lower the risk of complications. If women can access services before they are ten weeks pregnant, they can potentially have a choice of an early medical or surgical abortion, medical abortion avoids the need for anaesthesia and surgery.
- To ensure equity of access, patient choice, improved patient experience and optimal clinical outcomes to assist in reducing the number of women requiring repeat abortions by increasing timely access to all long-term methods of contraception.
- To provide a consistent approach to service provision throughout Cheshire and Merseyside that complements other sexual health services i.e. family planning, contraception, teenage pregnancy, genitourinary medicine and health promotion services.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record- Procedure method
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Awarded without competition
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Direct award (no call for competition)
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 12 Oct 2023, 13:30 BST
- Last source update
- 13 Oct 2023, 16:11 BST
- Authority reference
WHISP 171- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-030346- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-040b65Find a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
This is a Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency (VEAT) Notice and is published under the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2015. It is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ('Regulations') as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations. Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.
The contract is being awarded under PCR 2015 Section 32. Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication.
General grounds
(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:
b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic
operator for any of the following reasons:
(ii) competition is absent for technical reasons.
There are no alternative providers that can deliver the range of virtual and face to face consultations and medical and surgical treatment up to the maximum legal gestation at clinic sites within the Cheshire & Merseyside area.
Notice history
2 releases on Find a TenderPublished amendments (1 · 0 deadline changes)
| When | What | Before | After | Shift |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | TextType of procedure · IV.1.1 | ii) competition is absent for technical reasons. There are no alternative providers that can deliver the range of virtual and face to face consultations and medical and surgical treatment up to the maximum legal gestation at clinic sites within the Cheshire & Merseyside area | The company are the only provider of the booking service and the main provider that delivers the range of virtual and face to face consultations and medical and surgical treatment (up to the maximum legal gestation) at clinic sites within the Cheshire & Merseyside area. Other providers will be considered for the clinical service only, following successful accreditation via the patient choice rout… |
1 amendment published without a description.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| British Pregnancy Advisory Service BPASSubcontracting: Subcontractor: Ultrasound Direct Ltd. The Institute of Reproductive Sciences8000, Alec Issigonis Way, Oxford Business Park North, Oxford, England,OX4 2HW. The value / proportion to be subcontracted is unknown. | £4,182,000 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Termination of Pregnancy and Central Booking Services · British Pregnancy Advisory Service BPAS
- Signed
- 1 Apr 2023
- Value
- £4,182,000
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- NHS Cheshire & Merseyside ICBReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- BRITISH PREGNANCY ADVISORY SERVICEAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.