Published date: 18 July 2020
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Health services - 85100000
Location of contract
West Midlands
Value of contract
£0 to £11,552,598
Procurement reference
20200718160136-68205
Published date
18 July 2020
Closing date
28 May 2019
Contract start date
1 January 2020
Contract end date
31 December 2025
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The successful provider is required to deliver Termination of Pregnancy services for the registered populations of the following Commissioners/Contracting Authorities (1) NHS Sandwell and West Birmingham CCG, (2) NHS Wolverhampton CCG and (3) NHS Walsall CCG. The contract duration is 5 years with an option to extend for a further 12 months.
The service relates to the provision of termination services to women with an unwanted
pregnancy who request termination. It also describes how termination services will provide
contraception and sexually transmitted infection screening and treatment services.
The abortion service shall comply with the Abortion Act 1967, as amended by the Human
Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990. Those seeking terminations that are under 16 years of age will comply with the guidelines stated within the service specification.
The objectives of the service are:
• To offer high quality, impartial support and advice to all service users who request an abortion, regardless of age, ethnicity, language, disability, religious or personal circumstances.
• To provide service users with access to an abortion as early as possible.
• To provide abortion methods clinically appropriate for a service user's gestation and clinical
circumstances.
• To improve the sexual health of all service users through providing sexual health screening for Chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) for all age groups for patients from Sandwell and West Birmingham, Walsall and Wolverhampton CCGs.
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception and the supply of the full range of long acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) methods.
• To work with local Sexual Health Service provider/s to facilitate ongoing continuation of long-term contraception for Sandwell and West Birmingham, Walsall and Wolverhampton residents.
This may involve requests to patients to share patient contact details with sexual health service for follow up.
• To provide service users with appropriate information on post-abortion counselling services
both prior to and after having a termination.
Further details relating to the service and procurement process can be found within the EU
Supply system. Please refer to later in this notice for details on accessing the relevant
information.
Award information
Awarded date
1 January 2020
Contract start date
1 January 2020
Contract end date
31 December 2025
Total value of contract
£11,552,598
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
BPAS
Address
20 Timothys Bridge Road
CV37 9BF
Stratford-upon-AvonReference
None
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Address
Kingston House, 438-450 High Street
West Bromwich
B70 9LD
ENG
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