Telemedicine Service - NHS Cheshire and Merseyside ICB

Tender description

NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU is working on behalf of Cheshire & Merseyside ICB to award a contract for Liverpool Place only for Telemedicine services to Immedicare.<br/><br/>Telemedicine support is required for care homes in Liverpool 365 days a year, providing 24/7 access to virtual clinical assessment, virtual clinical supervision and safe supportive care via a Clinical Hub. Residents in care homes are provided with a professional, responsive and caring service that provides support tailored to their individual needs to enable them to access appropriate health care services and to live a full life, as well as reducing pressure on NHS services.<br/><br/>The ICB wish to directly award a contract to the incumbent provider for the following period:<br/><br/>Contract Start Date: 1st April 2023<br/>Contract End Date: 31st March 2026<br/>Option to Extend until 31st March 2027<br/><br/>The maximum contract value for the initial 3 years is £1,456,956. <br/><br/>If the contract is extended for 1 year, the maximum additional value will be £502,398. <br/><br/>The maximum contract value for the full contract is £1,959,354.<br/><br/>This is a Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency (VEAT) Notice and is published under the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2015. It is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (‘Regulations’) as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations. Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.<br/><br/>The contract is being awarded under PCR 2015 Section 32. Use of the negotiated procedure without prior publication.<br/><br/>General grounds<br/>(2) The negotiated procedure without prior publication may be used for public works contracts, public supply contracts and public service contracts in any of the following cases:<br/><br/>b) where the works, supplies or services can be supplied only by a particular economic<br/>operator for any of the following reasons:<br/><br/>(ii) competition is absent for technical reasons. Lot 1: Following a market review, confirming there are no alternative providers that can deliver the 24/7 virtual clinical assessment available. A review of frameworks has also been completed, this identified an increase in pricing, so a direct award to the incumbent provider is intended to obtain best value for money whilst maintaining continuity of care for patients. Lot 1: Following a market review, confirming there are no alternative providers that can deliver the 24/7 virtual clinical assessment available. A review of frameworks has also been completed, this identified an increase in pricing, so a direct award to the incumbent provider is intended to obtain best value for money whilst maintaining continuity of care for patients.