Notice Information
Notice Title
DAC 149/22 ID 4609155 - DOF NICSHR Occupational Health Service
Notice Description
This DAC is to provide Occupational Health Services to the Department. There are resourcing issues and the state of the labour market were unforseen and unattributable to the Department. There are capacity issues in this area, competition for resources in both the private and public sector and the Dept must act quickly to secure. The Department is considering longer term solutions including employment but services must be covered in the interim. These are urgent, critical services. There is no option to do nothing.
Lot Information
Lot 1
This DAC is to provide Occupational Health Services to the Department. There are resourcing issues and the state of the labour market were unforseen and unattributable to the Department. There are capacity issues in this area, competition for resources in both the private and public sector and the Dept must act quickly to secure. The Department is considering longer term solutions including employment but services must be covered in the interim. These are urgent, critical services. There is no option to do nothing.
Procurement Information
The provider is an established and experienced occupational health service provider, and they have confirmed that they can deliver a range of occupational health services to assist the NICS. The ability to procure these services to support OHS activities will safeguard the delivery of occupational health services, assist in the use of limited OHS resource, and proved an opportunity to consider and implement longer term solutions to the challenges being faced Given the possible impact of these challenges on the NICS and the requirement to address the situation urgently, approval is being sought to procure these services through a Direct Award Contract (DAC) as an interim arrangement while longer term solutions are implemented. Under Regulation 32 of PCR 2015, there are derogations to award a contract to a single supplier where the supplies or services can only be supplied by a particular supplier. In this case specifically applying the derogation under Regulation 32(2)(c) whereby it is strictly necessary where, for reasons of extreme urgency brought about by events unforeseeable by the contracting authority, the time limits for the open or restricted procedures or competitive procedures with negotiation cannot be complied with.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-038ccd
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/035141-2022
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Limited
- Procurement Method Details
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85000000 - Health and social work services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- Not specified
- Lots Value
- Not specified
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- £766,335 £500K-£1M
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 13 Dec 20223 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- Not specified
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- 13 Dec 20223 years ago
- Contract Period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Not Specified
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Active
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE
- Contact Name
- Not specified
- Contact Email
- ssdadmin.cpd@finance-ni.gov.uk
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- BELFAST
- Postcode
- BT3 9ED
- Post Town
- Northern Ireland
- Country
- Northern Ireland
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLN Northern Ireland
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLN0 Northern Ireland
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLN06 Belfast
- Delivery Location
- TLN Northern Ireland
-
- Local Authority
- Belfast
- Electoral Ward
- Sydenham
- Westminster Constituency
- Belfast East
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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