Award

Dewsbury Walk in Centre - NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (Kirklees Health and Care Partnership)

  • NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (Kirklees Health and Care Partnership)

F15: Voluntary ex ante transparency notice

Notice identifier: 2023/S 000-034043

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-041ab3

Published 17 November 2023, 10:04am



Section one: Contracting authority/entity

one.1) Name and addresses

NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (Kirklees Health and Care Partnership)

2nd Floor Norwich Union House Market Street

Huddersfield

HD1 2LR

Contact

Martin Pursey

Email

martin.pursey@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKE - Yorkshire and the Humber

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://www.westyorkshire.icb.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

Dewsbury Walk in Centre - NHS West Yorkshire Integrated Care Board (Kirklees Health and Care Partnership)

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85323000 - Community health services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

The aim of this service is to provide a walk-in facility for patients that require same day urgent care for an acute condition that may be dealt with in a single episode by a suitably trained advanced clinician. The provider will be required to provide walk-in services to patients for any appropriate medical needs to include some minor injury and minor ailments. This will include accepting signposted patients from the NHS111 service or other health and care services.

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: £750,000

two.2) Description

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKE - Yorkshire and the Humber
Main site or place of performance

Service will be delivered within the Dewsbury District Hospitals site of the Mid Yorkshire Teaching Hospitals Trust (MYHT) Estate.

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

Direct award of 12-month lead provider contract for operation of Walk-In Centre on the site of Dewsbury District Hospital to Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Cost criterion - Name: NA / Weighting: NA

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: No

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

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:

Commissioners are confident that an award of a new contract to a single provider without advertisement is justified and are satisfied that the overall contract is capable of being provided only by that provider. The Commissioner’s guiding principles being:

• the requirement to commission services from those providers that are most capable of securing the needs of health care service users and improving the quality and efficiency of services, and that provide the best value for money in doing so.

• the requirement to consider appropriate means of improving NHS health care services.

The Commissioner has carried out a detailed review (as part of a wider review of long-term requirements) of the provision of this particular service in its local area in order to understand how this service can be improved in the short-term and, as part of that review, identified the most capable provider of this service.

The proposal developed a recommendation in respect of the lead provider for the Kirklees WIC, for the 12-month period of this contract. The review identified the following benefits of identifying this provider as the lead provider:

• The current Walk-In Centre is co-located on the MYTT estate within the Dewsbury District Hospital A&E department

• The co-location is alongside the main urgent care A&E provision and patients will continue to have appropriate triage and relevant care provided by the most appropriate service.

• The A&E and Walk in Centre teams and staff are already working collaboratively sharing internal processes to provide patient care

• As lead provider MYTT will maintain collaborative approaches and ensure more flexibility of service and workforce provision and clinical expertise at times of pressure, such as winter.

• Improved performance and finance management

• This will aid future transformation and development of the future service model and delivery of the aims of the NHS Long Term Plan priorities.

The purpose of this direct award of contract is to allow continuation of this service in the short term, in line with the developments of the Urgent Care Agenda. Work during 2023 has progressed at pace to enable an urgent care model to be agreed for implementation, recognising that this is a significant area of transformation which will need to be undertaken in several phases due to the current financial climate and existing contractual arrangements.

In June 2023 it was agreed that whilst work to this point had been progressed collaboratively as a system, the priority development is in relation to the transformation of the existing Kirklees WIC. It is acknowledged that this phase of the programme needs to be developed in collaboration across the system, to ensure that the place WIC delivers consistent service outcomes to our populations and consistent access and pathways through our community and secondary care services.

Whilst acknowledging the collaborative approach required to ensure robust system service delivery, work is also required at ‘Kirklees’ place to ensure continuity of the WIC provision from April 2024 and the implementation of the appropriate contractual arrangements. The award of contract would therefore maintain urgent care access for patients through the time of transformational change to service provision.

This is a VEAT notice for the direct award of contract of 1 year to Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust.

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes


Section five. Award of contract/concession

Title

Dewsbury Walk in Centre, KHCP

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract/concession

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

16 November 2023

five.2.2) Information about tenders

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

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor/concessionaire

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Trust Headquarters and Education Centre Pinderfields Hospital Aberford Road

Wakefield

WF1 4DG

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKE - Yorkshire and the Humber
Internet address

https://www.midyorks.nhs.uk/

The contractor/concessionaire is an SME

No

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

Total value of the contract/lot/concession: £750,000

five.2.5) Information about subcontracting

The contract/lot/concession is likely to be subcontracted


Section six. Complementary information

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

Royal Courts of Justice

Strand Holborn

London

WCA 2LL

Country

United Kingdom