Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
NHS BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group
Capability House
Silsoe, Bedfordshire
MK45 4HR
Contact
Samuel Naxton
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKH24 - Bedford
Internet address(es)
Main address
Buyer's address
https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
one.3) Communication
Access to the procurement documents is restricted. Further information can be obtained at
https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted electronically via
https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
Tenders or requests to participate must be submitted to the above-mentioned address
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
one.5) Main activity
Health
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
Termination of Pregnancy Services in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes
Reference number
ACE-0436-2020-BLMK_ToPS
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
NHS Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes (BLMK) Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) hereby invite suitably qualified service providers to submit tenders for the provision of Termination of Pregnancy Services in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes.
To express an interest in tendering for this service and access the Invitation to Tender (ITT) documents and all other information concerning the procurement, please go to: https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
Click on 'Register' and follow the on screen instructions.
Responses must be fully completed and submitted exclusively via the BravoSolution e-procurement portal no later than 12:00 noon on 4th February 2022.
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £6,531,249.90
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKH24 - Bedford
Main site or place of performance
Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
NHS BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) wishes to procure Termination of Pregnancy Services. The contract period will be for 33 months (01st July 2022 to 31st March 2025), with an option to extend for a further 24 months.
The key objectives of the service are:
• To offer high quality, impartial support and advice to all service users who request a termination of pregnancy, regardless of age, ethnicity, language, disability, sexual orientation, religious or personal circumstances.
• To provide service users with access to a termination of pregnancy as early as possible.
• To provide termination of pregnancy methods clinically appropriate for a service user’s gestation and clinical circumstances.
• To improve the sexual health of service users through providing sexual health screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception, and the supply of the full range of reversible contraceptive methods.
The service will provide the following for the population of BLMK:
• Offer face to face appointments for all young people aged 18 and under.
• Offer telemedicine and face to face appointments for Service Users as clinically appropriate.
• Advice for unwanted pregnancy and referral for termination of pregnancy.
• Pre-and post-termination support and advice and contraception planning and implementation post-termination.
• Active Health promotion/prevention campaigns on Sexual Health.
• Ensuring that contraception advice, support and provision is available as part of all termination of pregnancy service care pathways.
• Reducing unintended and unwanted conceptions and repeat terminations of pregnancy in all ages by improving access to long-acting reversible contraception
• To improve the sexual health of service users through proactively signposting to local sexual health services for screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia, other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV.
• To improve the sexual health of service users through proactively offering sexual health screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception, (with particular emphasis on the promotion of LARC) and the offer of the full range of reversible contraceptive methods. Where the supply of contraception is not appropriate, the service user should be signposted to local contraceptive and sexual health services.
two.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
two.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months
33
This contract is subject to renewal
Yes
Description of renewals
Service reviews will be undertaken regularly, in order to determine any relevant contact renewal.
The contract term will be for an initial 33 months (01st July 2022 to 31st March 2025), with the option to extend by a further 24 months.
two.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted: No
two.2.11) Information about options
Options: Yes
Description of options
The contract term will be for an initial 33 months, with the option to extend by a further 24 months.
You are advised that the aggregate value of the contract (including extensions) is £6,531,249.90 (57 months). The aggregate value of the contract (excluding extensions) is £3,781,249.90 (33 months) based on £1,375,000 p.a. (maximum available budget per annum).
two.2.13) Information about European Union Funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: No
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: No
four.2) Administrative information
four.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date
4 February 2022
Local time
12:00pm
four.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
English
four.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Duration in months: 9 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)
four.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date
4 February 2022
Local time
12:00pm
Section six. Complementary information
six.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement: No
six.3) Additional information
The services to which this process relates fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended by The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020) ("the Regulations"). As such, the CCG does not intend to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 Services.
six.4) Procedures for review
six.4.1) Review body
High Court of Justice of England and Wales
Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
Country
United Kingdom