Contract award · 10 Mar 2021
General Practice - Local Enhanced Services
Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group awarded “General Practice - Local Enhanced Services” to Somerset GP Practices for £11.8m on 10 Mar 2021. Awarded without open competition.
No competition- Buyer
- Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group · Body governed by public law
- Supplier
- Somerset GP Practices
- Value
- £11,795,000
- Contract date
- 10 Mar 2021
- Published
- 11 Mar 2021
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Sector
- Health & social care · Medical practice and related services (CPV 85120000)
- Region
- South West
- Official notice
- 004962-2021 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
The GP Practice contracts for the 20 Local Enhanced Services expire on 31 March 2021 and the commissioner intend to directly award the contracts to existing GP providers across Somerset from 1st April 2021 to continue the delivery of these enhanced services for a period of 36 months to 31st March 2024. GP practices are able to provide all or some of these services. The services are: • Anti-Coagulation Initiation, Stabilisation and Monitoring • Community Leg Ulcer Service • Complex Care • Compression Bandaging • Dermatology • Diabetes Insulin Initiation • Discharge Liaison Service • Fitting of Ambulatory ECG Tape • Enhanced Drug Monitoring • Fracture Clinic • Frome Unscheduled Care Service • Homeless Clinic • Minor Injuries • Gynaecology Interface Service • Advanced Learning Disabilities Service • Drug Misuse and Mental Health Service • Primary Care Improvement Scheme • Vasectomy • Young Person Clinic • Frome Unscheduled Care Service The decision to award the three year contract supports alignment with the developing Fit For My Future strategy and public consultation, which will determine the services required in the future and the new contracting model supporting organised primary care. The CCG has already undertaken a review of all the enhanced services, and would not want to destabilise delivery of the services through undertaking procurement. The indicative annual contract value which is split across 65 separate GP practices within the boundaries of Somerset has a budget of circa £4m per annum. If you would like to understand the split of this budget by GP practice please follow the link on the contracts finder advert. All General Practices provide a good quality service that meets the needs and expectation of the commissioner and patients. The commissioner has no concerns regarding the proposed provider's ability to deliver the service through to 31st March 2021. As a result of all of the material factors noted above, the negotiated procedure without prior publication has been followed and justified under regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) 'competition is absent for technical reasons'. Additional information: The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).
About the supplier
- Somerset GP Practices: every public contract they have won.