Contract award · 23 Feb 2021
North East Essex Integrated Community Services
NHS North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group awarded “North East Essex Integrated Community Services” to Age Concern Colchester, Citizens Advice Colchester, Citizens Advice Essex for £440m on 23 Feb 2021. Awarded without open competition.
No competition- Buyer
- NHS North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group · Body governed by public law
- Suppliers
- Age Concern Colchester SME, Citizens Advice Colchester SME, Citizens Advice Essex, Citizens Advice Tendring, Colchester Borough Council, Community 360 SME, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, Essex Carers Support SME, Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, GP Primary Choice Ltd SME, St Helena Hospice, Tendring Community Voluntary Services SME +1 more
- Value
- £440,183,304
- Contract date
- 23 Feb 2021
- Published
- 24 Feb 2021
- Procedure
- Negotiated without publication of a contract notice
- Sector
- Health & social care · Health services (CPV 85100000)
- Region
- East of England
- Official notice
- 003745-2021 on Find a Tender
Awarded without open competition. The buyer went directly to one or a few suppliers instead of advertising the contract. Procurement rules allow this only in specific cases, such as extreme urgency, when only one supplier can do the work, or for call-offs from an existing framework.
Description
Commissioners and providers will work collaboratively to ensure delivery of the alliance objectives and the standards and outcomes of North East Essex Integrated Community Services. The contract to be entered into by the Commissioners and the selected alliance partners will be the NHS Standard Contract 2021/22, and subsequent revisions thereof. In addition to the NHS Standard Service Contract the providers will be required to agree and sign an alliance agreement with each other and the Commissioners. The alliance contract will run for 10 years commencing on the 1 July 2021. The Commissioners intend to work with existing providers of the integral elements of the new model, as well as other supporting partners. Commissioners believe that the existing providers and supporting partners are uniquely placed to deliver the specifications and vision for community services as part of the North East Essex Health and Wellbeing Alliance Local Delivery Plan. In June 2020, the Commissioners published a Prior Information Notice (PIN) in OJEU inviting expressions of interest form providers willing to make the commitment to collaborate in an alliance way of working and who believed they have the necessary experience in multi-disciplinary integrated care, willing to work with other statutory providers, willing to work with the current providers and capable of financially holding and managing the scale of risk through a degree of income risk share. The PIN was not commencing a competitive process but did not exclude new entrants to the Alliance either via partnering, associate or subcontracting arrangements. The Commissioners have conducted a process that complies with the principles of transparency and equal treatment, however the Commissioners were not required (and did not intend) to run the procurement in accordance with one of the specified procedures in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended by The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020) (e.g. Restricted, Open, etc.). The Commissioners have, therefore, utilised the flexibilities available to them under the 'light touch regime' in conducting this process. The Commissioners have opted to undertake a due diligence assessment alongside dialogue, which has formed the basis of 'Structured Dialogue'. To achieve this vision, the current Services that were subject to the original PIN included: - musculoskeletal, pain and therapies including paediatric therapies - homecare and support service - community nursing and intermediate care - falls - strength and balance - cardiology - stroke rehabilitation - community beds - audiology - ophthalmology - community continence and urology - diagnostics - lymphoedema - crisis response. In accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended by The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020), the services covered by the arrangement may change and expand as the partnerships develop through an alliance contract. Examples of areas that could be considered by the Alliance for future delivery include but are not limited to Cataract, Glaucoma, Reablement, Diabetes, and Integrated Crisis Response services within North East Essex. The Commissioners will continue to engage with stakeholders as appropriate throughout the mobilisation and subsequent phases of the contract.
About the suppliers
- Age Concern Colchester: every public contract they have won.
- Citizens Advice Colchester: every public contract they have won.
- Citizens Advice Essex: every public contract they have won.
- Citizens Advice Tendring: every public contract they have won.
- Colchester Borough Council: every public contract they have won.
- Community 360: every public contract they have won.
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust: every public contract they have won.
- Essex Carers Support: every public contract they have won.
- Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust: every public contract they have won.
- GP Primary Choice Ltd: every public contract they have won.
- St Helena Hospice: every public contract they have won.
- Tendring Community Voluntary Services: every public contract they have won.
- Virgin Care Services Limited: every public contract they have won.