Farrier House GP Surgery Worcestershire

Contract summary

Industry

• Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£4,424,000

Procurement reference

Farrier House GP Surgery Herefordshire and Worcestershire CCG

Published date

24 August 2021

Closing date

13 August 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Negotiated procedure without prior publication (above threshold)

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

The CCG is looking to award a contract for GP Services Farrier House Surgery, based in Worcester to SW Healthcare, which is a Federation of GP Surgeries based in Worcestershire. The contract service includes 1) Provision of full GMS Services, 2) Achievement of additional Key performance indicators in the following areas: Access, Patient Engagement, Childhood Vaccinations and Immunisations, Cytology and Flu Vaccinations, Homeless and Vulnerable Housed Service. The current registered population for Farrier House Surgery includes a large proportion of university students.

It is seeking to do a Direct Award under Regulation 32 (b) (ii) where competition is unlikely to be
financially viable and changing provider at this crucial time in post-pandemic recovery period would be disruptive to patient pathways and not in the patients' interests.

The CCG is therefore looking to Directly award a contract to SW Healthcare for a period of Five years
with an option to extend for a period of 24 months which constitutes an estimated contract value of
around £4,424,000. The anticipated go-live date of this contract will be from 1st April 2022. This
Direct Award follows on from the current contract which was awarded in April 2021 to SW Healthcare, continuing on from the original competitive procurement awarded in 2015.

Under the NHS Long Term Plan Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) are working towards a model of more integrated care within Primary Care alongside PCN and GP organisations. This model is still being developed in Herefordshire & Worcestershire. In the light of the current Covid 19 emergency situation, the focus of work is centred around post pandemic recovery. It would be unduly disruptive to the continuity of services for patients and cause substantial duplication of costs for the CCG to undertake a further procurement process at this point in time. It has become necessary therefore for the CCG, under Regulation 32 (b) (ii) to directly award a contract to SW Healthcare to ensure continuity and integrity of pathways during the next few years in post-pandemic recovery and during a period of immense change due to the development of new integrated pathways within the GP and PCN arena in Primary Care. Regulation 32 (b) (ii) states..>"where competition is absent for technical reasons..."The CCG does not feel that competition for this service exists at a viable financial level. The Fall-out from the pandemic emergency has now changed to post pandemic recovery efforts and this requires a focus on crucial resources to regain pre-pandemic levels of service and care. To change provider and pathways at this point would not be in the patients' interests.

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More information

Additional text

Light Touch Regime' services: This procurement is for clinical 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'). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of
the regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting
authorities are 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.

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Award information

Awarded date

13 August 2021

Contract start date

1 April 2022

Contract end date

31 March 2024

Total value of contract

£4,424,000

This contract was awarded to 1 supplier.

SW HEALTHCARE LIMITED

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About the buyer

Contact name

Geraldine Hickman

Address

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit
Heron House, 120 Grove Road
Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 4LX
England

Telephone

07767006153

Email

geraldine.hickman@nhs.net