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Published 18 Oct 2024, 15:36 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Telehealth Monitoring in COPD and Difficult Asthma

Official notice

Authority: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) (Central government)

ServicesAward procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: Wales (UKL14)
Awarded value£28,000published contract · exc. VAT
Awarded 18 Oct 2024no call for competition
Awarded to NUVOAIR HOLDINGS UK2 awards

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Hywel Dda University Health Board intends to award a contract to NuvoAir AB to extend the successful pilot of Telehealth Monitoring in COPD and Difficult Asthma for one (1) year to establish a larger evaluation of circa 200 patients to demonstrate impact on health care untilisation.

CPV: Health and social work services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Wales has higher rates of lung disease than other UK countriesAwarded

Wales has higher rates of lung disease than other UK countries. The pandemic has had a particularly severe effect on the respiratory diagnostic (spirometry) services within Hywel Dda University Health Board (HDUHB) and ability to monitor vulnerable patients with chronic lung diseases in Primary and Secondary Care and community nurses.

From April 2022 to January 2024, Respiratory Innovation Wales (RIW) collaborated with NuvoAir Ltd and HDUHB to implement and assess a home telemonitoring (HTM) service for patients with severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) who were already receiving optimal treatment. Key aims of the service are to improve health, wellbeing and enable users to monitor their condition in their own home alongside reducing A&E attendances and hospital stays.

A total of fifty-five (55) patients were onboarded onto HTM with positive feedback received including:

Spirometry easier to do at home than in a secondary care location

Feeling more in control of health with home monitoring

Increased motivation to exercise and stay fit

HDUHB intend to continue with this service for a final one (1) year period as Respiratory Innovation Wales (RIW) have provided a key finding report for the trial to date which acknowledges that whilst there appears to be some impact on reducing A&E attendances & possible CDM home visits, this could have occurred through chance. Therefore, it is recommended that a larger evaluation of circa 200 patients is followed for at least one year to demonstrate impact on health care utilisation.

Delivery: Wales
85000000 Health and social work services

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
18 Oct 2024, 15:36 BST
Last source update
8 Jul 2025, 14:01 BST
FTS notice number
2025/S 000-038255
Classification (CPV)
Health and social work services
Delivery area
Wales (UKL14)
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-04ade3 Find a Tender
Why no open competition
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive
Published justification

There are no other know providers of this service. Respiratory Innovation Wales (RIW) have provided a key finding report for the trial to date which acknowledges that whilst there appears to be some impact on reducing A&E attendances & possible CDM home visits, this could have occurred through chance. Therefore, it is recommended that a larger evaluation of circa 200 patients is followed for at least one year to demonstrate impact on health care utilisation

Publisher note: (WA Ref:153183)

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Published awards, contracts and bid statistics, not a forecast
Awards 2
Awarded value £28,0001 contract exc. VAT · 1 repeated publication of the same award counted once
Bids received 1
Contracts signed 2latest 18 Oct 2024
Awarded toValueDateStatus
NUVOAIR HOLDINGS UK£28,720 †same award published again · counted once—Awarded
NUVOAIR HOLDINGS UK£28,000 †—Awarded

Contracts

  • Contract 033819-2024-HDD-VEAT-24-01-1 · NUVOAIR HOLDINGS UK

    Signed
    18 Oct 2024
    Value
    £28,720
    Status
    active

  • Contract 038255-2025-HDD-VEAT-24-01-1 · NUVOAIR HOLDINGS UK

    Signed
    18 Oct 2024
    Value
    £28,000
    Status
    active

Bid statistics published by the authority

BidsSMEVCSEValid bid range
1bids · 0 electronic · 1 from abroad0——

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust)

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentBody governed by public lawHealth Ty Gorwel, St Davids Park, Carmarthen, UK, SA31 3BBContact name, email, phone

Dispute resolution & review bodies

  • High CourtReview body LondonContact phone

Bidders & participating suppliers

1 commercial party on the notice
  • NUVOAIR HOLDINGS UKAwarded supplier 125 Kingston St, Floor 5, BOSTON, US, MA 02111Contact phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.