Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
NHS Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group
Harrow
HA1 3AW
Contact
Hugh Caslake
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
UKI74 - Harrow and Hillingdon
Internet address(es)
Main 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
Harrow Community Paediatrics Services
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
The contract is to provide the following Paediatric services for Harrow CCG population:
• Children's Nursing Service
• Consultant Paediatrics
• Paediatric Occupational Therapy
• Paediatric Speech & Language Therapy
• Paediatric Physiotherapy
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)
Value excluding VAT: £10,020,000
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKI74 - Harrow and Hillingdon
Main site or place of performance
Provision of community services across Harrow at Northwick Park Hospital and a variety of community settings
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
Community Children's Services:
Children's Nursing Service providing specialist community nursing support to CYP with acute short term conditions, long term conditions, disabilities and complex conditions (including requirement for continuing care), life-limiting & life-threatening illnesses, palliative and end of life care.
Team includes children's community nursing for palliative care, and specialist community children's nursing fordiabetes, respiratory and neuro-disability and a paediatric asthma nurse working with children to improve their asthma control and reduce their reliance on emergency care.
Consultant Paediatrics providing paediatric assessment, diagnosis and management and ongoing support for children and young people including children with special educational needs and children with emotional and behavioural difficulties. The service is responsible for the assessment, including investigation and diagnosis, of underlying neurodevelopmental problem.
Paediatric Occupational Therapy assessment and treatment service for CYP with autistic spectrum disorders, social communication disorders, special needs or specific developmental disorders. The services will provide functional and needs-led assessment for the identification of the therapeutic needs of children and young people who have a functional difficulty with self-care, accessing school activities or taking part in leisure activities.
Paediatric Speech & Language Therapy assessment and treatment service for CYP (0-19) with complex communication and/or swallowing problems providing assessment and treatment for CYP with speech, language and communication needs.
Paediatric Physiotherapy assessment and treatment for CYP with disabilities, respiratory, neuro-developmental, neuromuscular and orthopaedic needs, including development delay, neuro-disabilities, respiratory needs, Neurological and Neuromuscular conditions, orthopaedic conditions and gait disorders and Torticollis.
two.2.14) Additional information
The indicative contract value of £10.02m is for the 2-year contract duration.
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.1) Form of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition in the cases listed below
- The services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason:
- absence of competition for technical reasons
Explanation:
The contracting authority has assessed the supplier to be the only only feasible, capable and affordable solution to ensure continuity of these essential community service within the local footprint of the CCG, building on existing infrastructure, local assets and knowledge and using the investment to ensure optimal system sustainability both in terms of clinical and workforce resilience, and within the finite financial resources available.
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust currently provide health services to Looked After Children, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services and local authority commissioned therapy services to children and young people in Harrow. CNWL are therefore assessed as offering the only solution to enable the integration of health and social care to children and young people in the borough.
Observing its obligations under the NHS (Procurement Patient Choice and Competition) (No.2) Regulations 2013, the CCG has assessed the appropriateness to award the contract directly through a non-competitive process to secure high quality community services for Brent and Harrow patients. This process will achieve a critical balance between meeting the service requirements to transfer rapidly and safely within an ongoing COVID pandemic incident and satisfying necessary assurances that the provider has the capabilities to provide high quality services to local patients.
Section five. Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded: Yes
five.2) Award of contract
five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
29 January 2021
five.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
London
NW1 3AX
Country
United Kingdom
NUTS code
- UKI - London
Internet address
five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot: £10,020,000
Section six. Complementary information
six.3) Additional information
The contract is being awarded for a 2-year duration commencing 1st April 2021 until 31st March 2023.