Planned Care Outsourcing - Spines

Concepts

• cardiff
• health services
• outsourcing
• planned care outsourcing
• care
• spines
• orthopaedic services
• patient waiting lists
• vale university health board
• cohort patients

Location

Cardiff and Vale of Glamorgan:

Description

Planned Care Outsourcing of Spinal Procedures to reduce patient waiting lists in Cardiff and Vale University Health Board

Total Quantity or Scope

This notice is an intention to award a contract based on a framework agreement with a competition. A mini-competition has been conducted under the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership Framework Agreement for Outsourcing / Insourcing of Clinical, Surgical & Diagnostic Services Reference Number PRO-OJEULT-50776. The mini-competition was run to establish a contract to cover Outsourcing to address the back-log of patients in respect of the spinal procedures which will include pre-assessment, diagnostics, surgery and follow up with the intention to support delivery to reduce the number of patients waiting on the inpatient waiting list. The intention to split the award contract over two providers with 50% allocated to each for a combined total of 20 cases to be completed by end of September 2025 with options to extend cohort patients numbers beyond September 25 to 31st March 26, subject to further funding approval.

Award Detail

Renewal Options

There is an option to extend cohort patients numbers beyond September 25 to 31st March 26, subject to further funding approval.

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services
• 85121283 - Orthopaedic services

Indicators

• Options are available.

Legal Justification

This is an intention to award notice under the Health Services (Provider Selection Regime) (Wales) Regulations 2025 ('the PSR Wales')

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** This is a Provider Selection Regime Wales (PSR Wales) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Services (Provider Selection Regime) (Wales) Regulations 2025. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015/Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award. The publication of this notice marks the start of the standstill period. Representations by providers must be made to decision makers by midnight Friday 25th July 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR Wales. Any providers that are party to the Framework Agreement for Outsourcing / Insourcing of Clinical, Surgical & Diagnostic Services Reference Number PRO-OJEULT-50776 can send their representations in relation to this proposed award to sarah.yellen@wales.nhs.uk The award decision makers are relevant staff from Cardiff and Vale University Health Board involved in the provider selection process, these include the roles of General Manager, Deputy General Manager, Planned Care The successful providers detailed within this notice have been selected as they have achieved the highest overall combined Technical, Commercial and Social Value scores from all providers that submitted a bid. The key criteria assessed as part of the technical section included the providers ability to meet the requirements within the specific timeframe, ability to recover any lost time, how safe and effective care would be delivered under the service, management of staff, managing issues within the service and ability to meet reporting requirements. The commercial section was assessed based on the lowest overall cost offered being awarded 50% with all other offers being scored on a relative scale to the lowest, and the social value scores awarded based on those provided to the supplier as part of the framework award. No providers were excluded from the procurement process with initial EOI followed by mini competition to those expressing an interest in the EOI No conflicts of interest were declared or identified as part of the conflicts assessment process (WA Ref:153516)