NHS Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent ICB Community Gynaecology Service

NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent are seeking to procure the provision of a Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Community Gynaecology Service.

The service will deliver a consultant-led community gynaecology service which will incorporate triage, diagnosis and management of a range of general gynaecological conditions.

The service should be located within the geographical boundaries of Staffordshire, ensuring equity of access for local populations.

The NHS Standard Contract will apply. The contract will be for a period of 3 years with a start date of the 1st July 2024, with the option to extend for a further 2 years.

The affordability threshold is £1,970,618 per annum for the Community Gynaecology service based on the indicative activity provided by the ICB. The total affordability threshold for the contract period of three years is £5,911,854. Including the optional two-year extension, the total contract period of five years is £9,853,090. Commissioning Authorities will evaluate bidder's prices submitted for the three-year contract period for the Community Gynaecology service.

The ICB has set an affordability threshold for the Procurement and reserves the right not to consider Bids that are unaffordable and above the affordability envelope. The ICB may seek clarification on bids that are unusually low. Following clarification, it will reserve the right not to consider bids that are unusually low. This is an indicative threshold and bidders are strongly advised to avoid exceeding the threshold.

​Full details of the services being procured are set out in the Specification within Annex 2 of the Invitation to Tender (ITT) documents.

Additional information: To express interest and participate in the tender, please register and apply via Atamis e-sourcing portal https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome.

Atamis Reference: C232114

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The contract conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the course of the tender process.

This procurement is for 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. The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in the MOI. As the ICB 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.