Official UK procurement notice
Nuffield Health · UK public procurement notice
Authority: NHS Bristol North Somerset & South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (Central government)·Consortium: 2 public authorities
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionThe aim of this service specification is to indicate the requirements for sustainable, evidence based, high quality, value for money provision of elective care to NHS Patients. This will support local waiting time targets and activity plans and provide patient choice and activity.
The service will provide routine elective secondary care services for patients in the following specialties (though these may be amended in line with General Condition 13).
- Orthopaedics
- Spinal Services (where ICB is Commissioner)
- General Surgery
CPV: Surgical hospital services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1The aim of this service specification is to indicate the requirements for sustainable,…Awarded
The aim of this service specification is to indicate the requirements for sustainable, evidence based, high quality, value for money provision of elective care to NHS Patients. This will support local waiting time targets and activity plans and provide patient choice and activity.
The service will provide routine elective secondary care services for patients in the following specialties (though these may be amended in line with General Condition 13)
- Orthopaedics
- Spinal services (where ICB is Commissioner)
- General Surgery
The services will include, where appropriate;
- Pre-treatment e.g. referral processes; triage/clinical assessment; diagnostics; consultation; pre-treatment assessment and / or work up.
- Treatment e.g. outpatient/ambulatory/inpatient treatment; joint assessments.
- Discharge e.g. expected physical, self-care, psychological capabilities prior to discharge.
This is a service specification for routine elective, multi-disciplinary inpatient, day case, outpatient procedures, outpatient services and diagnostics from independent sector providers.
The providers must be able to offer the full patient pathway at specialty level for acute elective surgery from the first outpatient to completion of treatment with the exception of occupational therapy / physiotherapy, (as contained in 3.5.3 below).
The award has been made following Direct Award Process B. The procurement has been conducted in line with Right To Choose requirements.
This is an activity-based contract with no guaranteed value.
The contract has been awarded for the period 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2026 with no provision for extension included
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- 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
- 7 Nov 2024, 13:12 GMT
- Last source update
- 7 Nov 2024, 13:12 GMT
- Authority reference
BNSSG_367_2024-26_Nuffield _A- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-036096- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04b4afFind a Tender
- Why no open competition
- The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
- Published justification
The procurement has been conducted in line with Right to Choose requirements.
Re-award under patient choice requirements.
Publisher note: Award Decision made by - Niall Mitchell, Deputy Head of Acute Contracts (Acute and Mental Health) No conflicts of interest were identified or declared during the process South Central and West Commissioning Support unit were commissioned by the ICB to publish the notice. This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under 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.
Commercial outcome & contract awards
Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast| Awarded to | Value | Date | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuffield Health | £0 † | — | Awarded |
Contracts
Nuffield Health · Nuffield Health
- Signed
- 1 Apr 2024
- Value
- £0
- Status
- active
Bid statistics published by the authority
| Bids | SME | VCSE | Valid bid range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1bids | — | — | — |
Contracting authority & participating public bodies
2 public bodies on the noticeConsortium members and other public bodies
- NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care BoardContracting authority
Dispute resolution & review bodies
- Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire ICBReview body
Bidders & participating suppliers
1 commercial party on the notice- Nuffield HealthAwarded supplier
Official documents & specifications
Official links; attachments are not copiedNo document links were published on the notice.