Provision of Urgent Award Primary Care Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) for Forest Surgery

Official notice

Authority: NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (NHS & healthcare)

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: East of England (UKH14)

Awarded value£1,145,315published contract · exc. VAT

Awarded 17 Jan 2025no call for competition

Awarded to Swan Surgery

What is being bought

Published requirement description

The current re-procurement has taken longer than anticipated due to a representation made. The current contract with the incumbent expires on 30 June 2025 and as a consequence there is a requirement to award a short-term contract whilst the procurement concludes. The new contract will be from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026.

CPV: Health services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published

Lot #1The current Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) Contract to provide the…Awarded

The current Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) Contract to provide the services to patients at Forest Surgery will expire on 30 June 2025. The Urgent Award to the existing provider is to ensure that there is continued provision of Primary Medical Services to the registered population of Forest Surgery in Brandon whilst the procurement in place to award a new contract is concluded. There is a requirement to award a new short term contract from the 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026.

NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice due to an urgent circumstance which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

The ICB may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the contract may be varied as allowable in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

Delivery: East of England · Brandon, Suffolk

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: Unspecified in notice
Recurring procurement: Unspecified in notice
First published: 14 Mar 2025, 13:26 GMT
Last source update: 14 Mar 2025, 13:26 GMT
FTS notice number: 2025/S 000-009439
Classification (CPV): Health services
Delivery area: East of England (UKH14)
Official registry OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-04ed4d Find a Tender

Why no open competition: The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Published justification: This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). 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. This award is being made urgently and the reason for the urgency was not foreseen by the ICB for the reasons outlined within this notice. This award is being made in order to prevent risk to patient and public safety, and the ICB is not able to satisfy the requirements of regulations 6 - 13 for the reasons outlined below.
Primary Care Commissioning Group - Chairman's Action.
No conflicts of interest, or potential conflicts of interest, were declared by any decision makes.

Publisher note: This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). 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 in this award. The current re-procurement has taken longer than anticipated due to a representation made. The current contract with the incumbent expires on 30 June 2025 and as a consequence there is a requirement to award a short term contract whilst the procurement concludes. The new contract will be from 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2026.

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast

Awards 1

Awarded value £1,145,3151 contract exc. VAT

Bids received 1

Contracts signed 1latest 17 Jan 2025

Awarded to	Value	Date	Status
Swan SurgerySME	£1,145,315 †	—	Awarded

Contracts

Contract 009439-2025-1 · Swan SurgerySME
Signed
17 Jan 2025
Value
£1,145,315
Status
active

Bid statistics published by the authority

Bids	SME	VCSE	Valid bid range
1bids	—	—	—

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

NHS SUFFOLK AND NORTH EAST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

Contracting authorityNHS & healthcareBody governed by public lawHealth GB-NHS: QJG Endeavour House, Russell Road, Ipswich, East of England, IP12BXContact name, email

Dispute resolution & review bodies

Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care BoardReview body IpswichContact email

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice

Swan SurgeryAwarded supplierGB-NHS: 8G252 Bury St Edmunds, East of England, IP33 1AE

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.