Miscellaneous health services (№17313963)

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1. Section I
   1. Name and addresses
      NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
      Heron House, 120 Grove Road
      Stoke-on-Trent
      ST4 4LX
      United Kingdom
      Telephone: +44 1216121500
      E-mail: [email protected]
      
   2. Type of the contracting authority:
      Body governed by public law
      
   3. Main activity:
      Health
      
2. Section II
   1. Scope of the procurement:
      1. Title:
         

         Pan Lancashire and South Cumbria Audiology Services AQP Plus

         Reference number: L-19- 06
         
      2. Main CPV code:
         85140000, 85000000
         
      3. Type of contract:
         Services
         
      4. Short description:
         

         The aim of the procurement is to identify suitable providers to deliver an innovative service which is a comprehensive patient-centred integrated hearing service across the Lancashire and South Cumbria area.

         The service will include the provision of hearing aids for age related hearing loss (for patients aged 50 years and over) in line with national guidance and in local requirements for the registered population of the NHS commissioning organisations.

      5. Information about lots:
         This contract is divided into lots: no
      6. Total value of the procurement:
         Value excluding VAT: 17 500 000.00 GBP
   2. Description
      1. Title:
         
      2. Additional CPV code(s):
         85000000
         
      3. Place of performance:
         Main site or place of performance:

         Area covered by GP services registered to the CCGs indicated in the ITT but generally covering Lancashire and South Cumbria.

      4. Description of the procurement:
         

         The aim of the procurement is to identify suitable providers to deliver an innovative service which is a comprehensive patient-centred integrated hearing service across the Lancashire and South Cumbria area.

         The service will include provision of hearing aids for age related hearing loss (patients aged 50 years and over)in line with national guidance and local requirements for the registered population of the NHS commissioning organisations. The vision is for people with age related hearing loss to receive high quality, efficient services delivered closer to home, with short waiting times. The service must deliver patient focused outcomes in response to the needs of individual patients/families/carers in the community where they live and which is free of charge at the point of care.

         The CCGs are looking to award the service to providers that meet the any qualified provider plus standards.Activity will be paid on a cost per case basis at a local tariff rate (to be published in the procurement documentation). There will be no guarantees of volume or payment in the contracts awarded. The estimated value of the contract will be 17 500 000 GBP over a 5 year period (on a 3 year initial contract with an option to extend a further 2 years).

         This procurement is for clinical services which are subject to the light-touch regime for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (‘Regulations’). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. Applicants are also invited to confirm as part of the tender which CCG areas of Lancashire and South Cumbria they wish to deliver the service from.

      5. Award criteria:
         Quality criterion - Name: Quality / Weighting: 100
         Price - Weighting: 0
         
      6. Information about options:
         Options: no
      7. Information about European Union funds:
         The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no
      8. Additional information:
         
3. Section IV
   1. Description:
      1. Type of procedure:
         Open procedure
      2. Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system:
         The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
      3. Information about electronic auction:
         
      4. Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
         The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: no
   2. Administrative information:
      1. Previous publication concerning this procedure:
         Notice number in the OJ S: 2019/S 116-284984
         
      2. Information about termination of dynamic purchasing system:
         
      3. Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice:
         
4. Section V
   1. Contract No: L-19-06-02
      Title:

      Pan Lancashire and South Cumbria Audiology Services AQP Plus

   2. Award of contract
      1. Date of conclusion of the contract: 2019-10-07
         
      2. Information about tenders:
         Number of tenders received: 5
         The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: yes
      3. Name and address of the contractor:
         Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
         Blackpool
         United Kingdom
         The contractor is an SME: yes
      4. Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT):
         
         Total value of the contract/lot: 17 500 000.00 GBP
         
      5. Information about subcontracting:
         
         
5. Section VI
   1. Additional information
      
   2. Procedures for review
      1. Review body
         NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG
         Blackburn
         United Kingdom
         
      2. Body responsible for mediation procedures
         
         
      3. Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
         
         
   3. Date of dispatch of this notice
      2019-10-28