Published date: 24 May 2022
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Services provided by nurses - 85141200
Location of contract
North West
Value of contract
£1,800,000
Procurement reference
M-20-09 #4
Published date
24 May 2022
Closing date
12 November 2021
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
1 April 2022
Contract end date
31 March 2028
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Other: Pseudo Open Tender under Light Touch Regime
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is working with NHS Southport & Formby Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS South Sefton Clinical Commissioning Group to award a contract for a Home Oxygen Service - Assessment & Referral (HOS-AR) for patients living in the CCG area.
The aim of the Home Oxygen Assessment and Review Service (HOS-AR) is to ensure that home oxygen is appropriately prescribed to those people who clinically need it. The provider will be required to deliver assessment and follow-up appointments in either a clinic environment or in the patient's home, where appropriate. The service will clinically manage all adult patients where a potential need for home oxygen has been identified or a prescription for home oxygen has been initiated.
NICE guidance recommends that a specialised assessment needs to take place to enable the oxygen requirements of the patient is individually met.
There will be an initial contract period of 4 years commencing on 1st April 2022. There will be the option to extend for a further 2-year period from 1st April 2026. The contract value is set at £1,800,000 over the entire 6-year contract period.
More information
Previous notice about this procurement
- Opportunity
- Published 8 October 2021
Additional text
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This procurement was for Social and other specific services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations') http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made
Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made
The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.
As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.
Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.
Award information
Awarded date
18 January 2022
Contract start date
1 April 2022
Contract end date
31 March 2028
Total value of contract
£1,800,000
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Prescot Street
Liverpool
L7 8XPReference
No reference - other
Value of contract
£1,800,000
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Contact name
Helen Graham
Address
c/o NHS Southport & Formby CCG and NHS South Sefton CCG
Magdalen House, Trinity Road
Bootle
L20 3NJ
England
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