Contract

Eye Care Single Point of Access for East Cheshire, West Cheshire, Halton, Knowsley and St Helens Places

  • NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2024/S 000-022011

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-044daa

Published 17 July 2024, 11:56am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board

No 1 Lakeside, 920 Centre Park

Warrington

WA1 1QY

Email

enquiries@cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKD61 - Warrington

NHS Organisation Data Service

OYG

Internet address(es)

Main address

www.cheshireandmersesyside.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

Eye Care Single Point of Access for East Cheshire, West Cheshire, Halton, Knowsley and St Helens Places

Reference number

WHISP-263

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85121281 - Ophthalmologist services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

Midlands and Lancashire CSU is working with NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (C&M ICB), which has appointed a supplier to provide an Eye Care Single Point of Access in Cheshire and Merseyside covering East Cheshire, West Cheshire, Knowsley, Halton and St Helens Places.

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: £200,000

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKD62 - Cheshire East
  • UKD63 - Cheshire West and Chester
  • UKD71 - East Merseyside
Main site or place of performance

ICB Places of: East Cheshire, West Cheshire, Knowsley, Halton and St Helens

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Midlands and Lancashire CSU is working with NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board (C&M ICB), which has appointed a supplier to provide an Eye Care Single Point of Access in Cheshire and Merseyside covering East Cheshire, West Cheshire, Knowsley, Halton and St Helens Places.

This is a pilot service and is to run for an initial 6-month period from 1st July 2024 with the option to extend for a further maximum period of 6 months.

The ICB will remunerate the provider of this service on a cost per case basis and has used the activity data detailed in the Service Specification as an estimate of the number of patients that is likely to use the Single Point of Access during the initial 6-month period. The financial envelope that has been set aside for this contract is approximately £100,000 for the initial 6-month period based on the expected activity levels listed in the Service Specification. Should the activity be higher than the anticipated levels listed in the Service Specification, then the provider will receive increased revenue based on their cost per case quotation response. The ICB has a further maximum budget of £100,000 available and this will be utilised to fund the extra activity levels within the initial six-month period and/or fund an additional contract period of a maximum of 6 months at the sole discretion of the Contracting Authority.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion - Name: Delivery of an Effective Service / Weighting: 20

Quality criterion - Name: Delivery Model / Weighting: 20

Quality criterion - Name: Delivery of Outcomes / Weighting: 15

Quality criterion - Name: Effective Patient Pathway / Weighting: 5

Quality criterion - Name: Social Value - General Question / Weighting: 5

Quality criterion - Name: Social Value - Public Sector Equality Duty5 / Weighting: 5

Price - Weighting: 30

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: Yes

Description of options

This is a pilot service and is to run for an initial 6-month period from 1st July 2024 with the option to extend for a further maximum period of 6 months.


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.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2024/S 000-010070


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

7 May 2024

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 2

Number of tenders received from SMEs: 2

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Primary Eyecare Services Ltd

Waulk Mill (2.2), 51 Bengal Street

Manchester

M4 6LN

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKD33 - Manchester
Companies House

06722353

Internet address

www.primaryeyecare.co.uk

The contractor is an SME

Yes

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

Initial estimated total value of the contract/lot: £200,000

Total value of the contract/lot: £200,000


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

This procurement is being carried out in line with the requirements which fall under Regulation 11 for the award of a contract with a competition, and Schedule 1 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. As such, the competitive tendering of these Services is being run as a bespoke, single-stage tender process as described in the documentation that was available to bidders and in the Find a Tender contract notice reference 2024/S 000-010070.

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

NHS Cheshire & Merseyside Integrated Care Board

No 1 Lakeside, 920 Centre Park

Warrington

WA1 1QY

Email

enquiries@cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk

Country

United Kingdom

Internet address

www.cheshireandmerseyside.nhs.uk