Urgent Award - Breast Cancer Screening support in South Essex

Concepts

• health services
• breast cancer screening
• breast screening contracts
• south essex
• urgent award - breast cancer screening support
• essex
• urgent
• screening
• breast
• cancer

Location

London

Description

This is an Urgent Award under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. This is a 4 month contract with the option to extend for no more than 8 weeks for Breast Cancer Screening providing support to an existing provider.Unforeseen circumstances with the Primary Provider of these services has resulted in a backlog of patients awaiting appointments. Due to the scale of the patient backlog and to ensure that they are seen as quickly as possible, bringing a third party provider in to support the contractor see these patients and reduce the backlog as quickly as possible was in the best interests of the patients as it reduces the waiting list and may result in improved outcomes of earlier diagnosis.The awarded provider, InHealth, already holds Breast Screening Contracts in the London region and has capacity to support our primary contractor within the urgent timeframes without impacting other services.

Total Quantity or Scope

Due to the scale of the patient backlog and to ensure that they are seen as quickly as possible, bringing a third party provider in to support the contractor see these patients and reduce the backlog as quickly as possible was in the best interests of the patients as it reduces the waiting list and may result in improved outcomes of earlier diagnosis.The awarded provider, InHealth, already holds Breast Screening Contracts in the London region and has capacity to support our primary contractor within the urgent timeframes without impacting other services. The lifetime value of this contract is £180,000.00The contract will run for 4 months from 15th September to 16th January with the option to extend for no more than 8 weeks.

Award Detail

Award Criteria

CPV Codes

• 85100000 - Health services

Indicators

• Award on basis of price.

Legal Justification

This is an urgent award under Regulation 14 of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023

Other Information

This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award.This contract has been awarded under Regulation 14 due to the existing provider being suddenly unable to provide the full scope of services under an existing contract and a new/secondary provider has been needed to be found to address urgent safety concerns arising from the increased risk to patient health through increased wait times and late diagnosis. The contract is for 4 months with the option to extend for no more than 8 weeks.The decision makers were:Decision made at NHS England, East of Englands Public Health Oversight Group - consisting of:Regional Director of Strategy and Commissioning of Public Health.Deputy Director of Finance Oversight and Delivery.Head of Public Health Commissioning - Cancer Screening.Head of Public Health Commissioning - Strategy and Operations.Head of Public Health Commissioning - Non-Cancer Screening and CHIS.Regional Head of Health and Justice Commissioning.Deputy Director of Healthcare Public Health.No conflicts of interest were declared.