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Termination of Pregnancy Services for NHS MSE ICB

HealthcareCPV 85100000
Value£16.6m
Awarded17 Feb 2023
Published3 Jul 2023
RegionEast of England
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£16.6mtotal contract value
median £380k
this tender£0£17.9m

This is a large award for Health & Social Care — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 32,734 valued Health & Social Care tenders in our corpus.

The brief

NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board (NHS MSE ICB) (the Authority) invites suitably qualified providers to tender for this Termination of Pregnancy Services (TOPs).

The Contract will be for a term of 60 months (5 years) with the possibility of extending the term for a period of 24 additional months (2 years) beyond the initial contracted duration by agreement between the Authority and the Bidder.

The proposed service commencement date is 01st August 2023 - 31st July 2028.

The annual value of the contract is based upon activity spend 2021/22 of £2,373,441.50 Sterling.

The aggregate value of the contract (including extensions) as advertised in the FTS notice is £16,614,090.50 Sterling.

The aggregate value of the contract (excluding extensions) is £11,867,207.50 Sterling.

TOPS will operate a Tariff as outlined in the Document 7 - Commercial Offer Template.

The contract shall be paid upon provision of service and there is no guarantee of activity.

The Authority has entered expectant activity levels in the '2023/24 estimated activity column' of the Commercial Offer Template, however, it should be stipulated that this is not guaranteed activity for the contract duration.

The key objectives of the service are: - To offer high quality, impartial support and advice to all women/children who request a termination of pregnancy, regardless of age, ethnicity, language, disability, sexual orientation, religious or personal circumstances. - To provide women/children with access to a termination of pregnancy as early as possible. - To provide termination of pregnancy methods clinically appropriate for a women/children's gestation and clinical circumstances. - To improve the sexual health of women/children through providing sexual health screening and treatment as appropriate for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV. - To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception, and the supply of reversible contraceptive methods locally available.

Other key considerations: The NCA is not available to publish, however the total spend equates to 2021/22 = £11,661.41 and 2022/23 (up to December 22) = £36,434.53.

Annual adjustments for inflation/efficiency will be made to the tariffs each year in line with the contract terms.

Demographic growth will be applied to the activity plan as detailed in the Commercial Offer Template.

The procurement will utilise a cost and volume model.

Growth will be driven and applied based on actual activity year on year.

The Authority intends to award this contract to a single successful bidder.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care

NHS Mid and South Essex Integrated Care Board (NHS MSE ICB) (the Authority) invites suitably qualified providers to tender for this Termination of Pregnancy Services (TOPs).

02

The contract shall be paid upon provision

The contract shall be paid upon provision of service and there is no guarantee of activity.

03

The Authority has entered expectant activity levels

The Authority has entered expectant activity levels in the '2023/24 estimated activity column' of the Commercial Offer Template, however, it should be stipulated that this is not guaranteed activity for the contract duration.

04

To offer high quality, impartial support

To offer high quality, impartial support and advice to all women/children who request a termination of pregnancy, regardless of age, ethnicity, language, disability, sexual orientation, religious or personal circumstances.

05

To provide women/children with access to

To provide women/children with access to a termination of pregnancy as early as possible.

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