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Kent County Council

Long Acting Reversible Contraception in Primary Care Settings DPS

HealthcareCPV 85121100
ValueValue not published
Deadline30 Nov 2025
Published11 Dec 2024
RegionNationwide
Timeline
Published 11 Dec 2024ClosedCloses 30 Nov 2025
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Mr Matt Wellard
Matthew.Wellard@kent.gov.uk
+44 3000413221

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The brief

As required under the Provider Selection Regime Regulation 13(5), this is a notice of extension of the existing DPS (now managed under Direct Award B) by a further year until 30th November 2025.

Kent County Council is procuring through Primary Care, the fitting, monitoring, checking, and removal of intrauterine devices (IUDs), intrauterine systems (IUSs) and sub-dermal implants (SDIs), collectively known as long-acting reversible contraception (LARC), for contraceptive purposes only.

The Council is aiming to procure a service which is available in each Kent geographical Primary Care Network area, to ensure access for services throughout the county.

The service will be provided in primary care settings across Kent, by practitioners who hold valid and up-to-date Letters of Competence (LoC), as issued by the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH), for the procedures undertaken, or by potential providers who have suitability to pursue the professional activity, including the ability to: - achieve and maintain competence to deliver LARC as specified by the FSRH as part of a primary care pathway. - have appropriate treatment rooms and facilities for delivery of LARC as specified by FSRH latest clinical guidance, within each geographical GP PCN/ neighbourhood quadrant. - ensure that patients with needs relating to uncomplicated STIs should have their care managed by appropriately skilled healthcare professionals, as defined by the latest standards specified by the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH).

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

Each Kent geographical Primary Care Network area

each Kent geographical Primary Care Network area, to ensure access for services.

02

Achieve and maintain competence to deliver LARC

achieve and maintain competence to deliver LARC as specified by the FSRH as part of a.

03

Ensure that patients with needs relating

ensure that patients with needs relating to uncomplicated STIs should have their care.

Derived from the notice text — always confirm against the original documents.

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Stage
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