Contract award · 26 Feb 2025

Sub Contract of Musculoskeletal Activity to Independent Sector Providers

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust awarded “Sub Contract of…” to Practice Plus Group Hospitals Limited for £1.96m.

No competitionHealth & social careYorkshire and the Humber

Awarded without open competition

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.

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Key facts

Buyer
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust · Body governed by public law
Value
£1,957,858.45
Procedure
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Sector
Health & social care · Orthopaedic services (CPV 85121283)
Timeline
  1. Contract date26 Feb 2025
  2. Published2 Mar 2026Published 369 days after the contract date

Description

This award has been made under direct award process B, Practice Plus Group Hospital, Barlborough is an existing provider of Sheffield MSK services. The Sheffield MSK approach ensures that patients can be offered a choice of provider. The focus of the MSK model is to have a co-ordinated approach that supports and encourages management of patients’ needs with clear preventative programmes and early interventions, to reduce the volumes of patients who need more specialist intervention. <br/>The services are to be provided to patients aged 18 and over who are referred to the Provider via the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS FT (STH) Single Point of Access (SPA).<br/>The services will be provided under this contract for 36 months from 1 April 2026 to 31 March 2029. The contract value for year 1 is £1,957858.45, the value of the contract for year 2 & year 3 will be renegotiated annually.

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