Official UK procurement notice
DAC 149/22 ID 4609155 - DOF NICSHR Occupational Health Service
Authority: Department of Finance (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThis DAC is to provide Occupational Health Services to the Department. There are resourcing issues and the state of the labour market were unforseen and unattributable to the Department. There are capacity issues in this area, competition for resources in both the private and public sector and the Dept must act quickly to secure. The Department is considering longer term solutions including employment but services must be covered in the interim.
These are urgent, critical services. There is no option to do nothing.
CPV: Health and social work services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1
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
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 13 Dec 2022, 08:54 GMT
- Last source update
- 13 Dec 2022, 08:54 GMT
- FTS notice number
2022/S 000-035141- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-038ccdFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The provider is an established and experienced occupational health service provider, and they have confirmed that they can deliver a range of occupational health services to assist the NICS. The ability to procure these services to support OHS activities will safeguard the delivery of occupational health services, assist in the use of limited OHS resource, and proved an opportunity to consider and implement longer term solutions to the challenges being faced Given the possible impact of these challenges on the NICS and the requirement to address the situation urgently, approval is being sought to procure these services through a Direct Award Contract (DAC) as an interim arrangement while longer term solutions are implemented. Under Regulation 32 of PCR 2015, there are derogations to award a contract to a single supplier where the supplies or services can only be supplied by a particular supplier.
In this case specifically applying the derogation under Regulation 32(2)(c) whereby it is strictly necessary where, for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority, the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation cannot be complied with.
- Review procedure
: The Public Contract Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have.. been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). The authority incorporates a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) before this contract is awarded.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| BLACKWELL ASSOCIATES LIMITEDSME | £766,335 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Contract 035141-2022-1 · BLACKWELL ASSOCIATES LIMITEDSME
- Signed
- 13 Dec 2022
- Value
- £766,335
- Status
- active
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- The UK does not have any special review body with responsibility for appeal/mediation procedures in public procurement competitions. Instead; any challenges are dealt with by the High Court, Commercial Division, to which proceedings may be issued regarding alleged breaches of the PCR 2015.Review body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Blackwell AssociatesAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.