Published date: 12 April 2022
Awarded contract - This means that the contract has been awarded to a supplier.
Contract summary
Industry
Health services - 85100000
Location of contract
East of England
Value of contract
£6,539,640
Procurement reference
ACE-0436-2020-BLMK_ToPS
Published date
12 April 2022
Closing date
11 February 2022
Closing time
12pm
Contract start date
1 July 2022
Contract end date
31 March 2025
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
NHS BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) invited suitably qualified service providers to submit tenders for the provision of Termination of Pregnancy Services in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes. Following a competitive procurement process the contract was awarded to British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS).
The key objectives of the service are:
• To offer high quality, impartial support and advice to all service users who request a termination of pregnancy, regardless of age, ethnicity, language, disability, sexual orientation, religious or personal circumstances.
• To provide service users with access to a termination of pregnancy as early as possible.
• To provide termination of pregnancy methods clinically appropriate for a service user's gestation and clinical circumstances.
• To improve the sexual health of service users through providing sexual health screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception, and the supply of the full range of reversible contraceptive methods.
The service will provide the following for the population of BLMK:
• Offer face to face appointments for all young people aged 18 and under.
• Offer telemedicine and face to face appointments for Service Users as clinically appropriate.
• Advice for unwanted pregnancy and referral for termination of pregnancy.
• Pre-and post-termination support and advice and contraception planning and implementation posttermination.
• Active Health promotion/prevention campaigns on Sexual Health.
• Ensuring that contraception advice, support and provision is available as part of all termination of pregnancy service care pathways.
• Reducing unintended and unwanted conceptions and repeat terminations of pregnancy in all ages by improving access to long acting reversible contraception.
• To improve the sexual health of service users through proactively signposting to local sexual health services for screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia, other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV.
• To improve the sexual health of service users through proactively offering sexual health screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception,(with particular emphasis on the promotion of LARC) and the offer of the full range of reversible contraceptive methods. Where the supply of contraception is not appropriate, the service user should be signposted to local contraceptive and sexual health services.
More information
Additional text
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The contract term is 33 months (01st July 2022 to 31st March 2025) with an option to extend for a further 24 months subject to performance and stakeholder agreement (Maximum 57 month contract).
The maximum contract value for the contract is £6,539,640.
The services to which this process relates fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended by The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020) ("the Regulations"). As such, the CCG does not intend to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 Services.
The contract opportunity was advertised in the Find Tender Service, Reference: 2022/S 000-000132.
Award information
Awarded date
16 March 2022
Contract start date
1 July 2022
Contract end date
31 March 2025
Total value of contract
£6,539,640
This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.
British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS)
Address
20 Timothy`s Bridge Road,
Stratford Enterprise Park,
Stratford-Upon-Avon,
CV37 9BFReference
No reference - other
Value of contract
£6,539,640
Supplier is SME?
No
Supplier is VCSE?
No
About the buyer
Contact name
Samuel Naxton
Address
NHS BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group
Capability House
Silsoe, Bedfordshire
MK45 4HR
England
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