Contract

GM School Age Flu - Contract Extension

  • NHS England Greater Manchester

F21: Social and other specific services – public contracts (contract award notice)

Notice identifier: 2023/S 000-011331

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-03c246

Published 20 April 2023, 11:39am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

NHS England Greater Manchester

Manchester

Email

necsu.neprocurement@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKD3 - Greater Manchester

Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Not on any register

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.england.nhs.uk

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

GM School Age Flu - Contract Extension

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85000000 - Health and social work services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

The Greater Manchester (GM) School Aged Flu provision forms part of the mandated national flu program, it targets varying cohorts of children that are defined annually following JCVI advice. Locally, this service covers all 10 GM localities, with the service delivering primarily a nasal spray flu vaccine, and more recently the intramuscular (IM) flu vaccines to all applicable cohorts.

The extension allows for the inclusion of the pending national decisions on the development of the national immunisation strategy, the regional insight work that has been initiated and devolvement of immunisation services to ICBs as we are still awaiting this guidance which will be critical to the service specification and will inform future decisions on the service model for GM.

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: £2,669,596

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 85000000 - Health and social work services

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKD3 - Greater Manchester
Main site or place of performance

Greater Manchester

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

The Greater Manchester (GM) School Aged Flu provision forms part of the mandated national flu program, it targets varying cohorts of children that are defined annually following JCVI advice. Locally, this service covers all 10 GM localities, with the service delivering primarily a nasal spray flu vaccine, and more recently the intramuscular (IM) flu vaccines to all applicable cohorts.

two.2.14) Additional information

The extension allows for the inclusion of the pending national decisions on the development of the national immunisation strategy, the regional insight work that has been initiated and devolvement of immunisation services to ICBs as we are still awaiting this guidance which will be critical to the service specification and will inform future decisions on the service model for GM.

Future commissioning of services will be undertaken in line with relevant legislation.


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 procurement falls outside the scope of application of the regulations

Explanation:

The extension allows for the inclusion of the pending national decisions on the development of the national immunisation strategy, the regional insight work that has been initiated and devolvement of immunisation services to ICBs as we are still awaiting this guidance which will be critical to the service specification and will inform future decisions on the service model for GM.


Section five. Award of contract

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 1

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Intrahealth

1st Floor, William Brown Centre

Peterlee

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKC - North East (England)
Justification for not providing organisation identifier

Not on any register

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £2,669,596

Total value of the contract/lot: £2,669,596


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

Future commissioning of services will be undertaken in line with relevant legislation.