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title: "Primary Care Provided Phlebotomy Services"
ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-030b34"
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current_stage: "Award"
buyer: "NHS HAMPSHIRE SOUTHAMPTON AND ISLE OF WIGHT CCG"
published: "2022-03-02"
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# Primary Care Provided Phlebotomy Services

Buyer: NHS HAMPSHIRE SOUTHAMPTON AND ISLE OF WIGHT CCG  
Current stage: Award  
OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-030b34

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## Summary

The NHS Hampshire Southampton and Isle of Wight CCG is seeking providers for the "Primary Care Provided Phlebotomy Services" tender, focusing on health and social work services across the Isle of Wight. This procurement is currently at the Award stage, with a contract valued at £2,989,635, which commenced on 1st March 2022 for a period of three years, with options to extend for an additional two years. The tender process was initiated in response to the urgent need for blood testing services due to the COVID-19 pandemic, ensuring service continuity following significant disruptions to existing services.

This tender presents significant opportunities for local healthcare providers, particularly those specialising in phlebotomy and primary care services. Companies that can offer scalable, reliable, and urgent care solutions will be well-suited to compete, especially those with experience in managing backlogs created by the pandemic. The ability to quickly mobilise resources and adapt to patient needs will be critical for success in this competitive process, as the contract aims to stabilise and enhance the delivery of vital health services in the region.

## Notice

Primary Care Provided Phlebotomy Services across the Isle of Wight, including: * Routine GP requested blood tests * Urgent GP requested blood tests * Fasting GP requested blood tests * Annual review GP requested blood tests

### Lot Information

Lot 1

As per published PIN with call for competition 2022/S 000-001180. The Contracting Authority will enter into a contract with all 12 of the Isle of Wight GP Practices for the reasons detailed below. The contract is for a period of 3 years commencing 1st March 2022 with the option to extend for a further 2 x 1 year periods. Value below includes optional extension period i.e 5 year maximum cost at higher tariff rate. When the Covid - 19 pandemic hit in 2020, the IW Trust notified the IW CCG that they were unable to deliver the GP requested blood tests in a safe environment. This is due to the delivery model being based at the IOW Hospital, with walk-in sit and wait only, which posed a risk to people as there could be 50+ at any one time in the same room. In response, Providers on the Isle of Wight were contacted to see whether they could deliver this activity, including: * IW Trust (Acute and Community Division) * All GP Practices * Primary Care Providers, including One Wight Health GP Federation The only Providers that could deliver the service were the GP Practices, and it was mutually agreed by the CCG, IW Trust and Primary Care Providers that the GP Practices would increase their capacity to accommodate the GP requested blood tests previously completed by the IW NHS Trust, within a defined scope. This needed to be put in place urgently, so the Isle of Wight CCG agreed to put in place an emergency primary care LCS contract variation between July 2020 and February 2022, to cover the increased activity to Primary Care. The service was critical for the CCG and IW population, so the full procurement process was not possible at this stage due to the need for service continuity and the capacity of the CCG and Providers to complete a procurement during a pandemic. The IW phlebotomy service is now at a critical stage, as the current contract variation with GP Practices ending 28th February 2022. This contract award is due to the following reasons: * Ensuring service continuity for patients: The NHS is in a period of unprecedented pressure and change due to the Covid pandemic. It will take a considerable amount of time to get through the pandemic and recovery, during which diagnostics needs to remain stable for continuity of care. * NHS Strategic changes to embed: o There is a significant amount of change happening across the ICS and particularly within Primary Care. The NHS England and NHS Improvement 5 year Primary Care Network (PCN) priorities are: Improving prevention and tackling health inequalities in the delivery of primary care Supporting better patient outcomes in the community through proactive primary care Supporting improved patient access to primary care services Delivering better outcomes for patients on medication Helping create a more sustainable NHS o As phlebotomy is key to all of these priorities as a diagnostic and management tool, it is vital that the service model meets the need of patients and helps providers achieve the priorities outlined above. * Activity baseline needs to stabilise: The activity baseline varies considerably at the moment due to: o A large back-log of GP requested blood tests due to the recent blood tube shortages and pandemic. NHS England wrote a letter directing "All primary care and community testing must be halted until 17 September 2021, except for clinically urgent testing", which meant a 50% reduction of Primary Care blood tests and 25% reduction of hospital blood tests. The GP Practices are now permitted to gradually increase blood tests over the next couple of months. This has a widespread impact on care, such as the annual reviews, diagnosis, local commissioned services etc. Therefore, agreement across Hampshire, Southampton, Isle of Wight CCG is to have payment protection in place for local commissioned services, which includes Phlebotomy. o The changes outlined above in terms of PCN DES diagnostic and management impact o The activity baseline set at 2018/19 prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. Actual activity seen is lower due to many reasons, such as the Covid-19 pandemic pausing QOF, advances in medications such as the move from Warfarin top DOACs reducing monitoring etc. therefore, a true baseline needs to be establish over the next 2-3 years to inform future budget setting. Additional information: 'The Contracting Authority is awarding the contract set out in this notice for 3 + 2x1 years as per the call for competition Prior Information Notice 2022/S 000-001180 published on the 14th January 2022, where no legitimate expressions of interest were received. Therefore, the Contracting Authority relies on Regulation 32 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 to direct award this contract. Regulation 32 sets out; 'In the specific cases and circumstances laid down in this regulation, contracting authorities may award public contracts by a negotiated procedure without prior publication. 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:- (a) where no tenders, no suitable tenders, no requests to participate or no suitable requests to participate have been submitted in response to an open procedure or a restricted procedure, provided that the initial conditions of the contract are not substantially altered and that a report is sent to the Commission where it so requests.'

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Find A Tender Service |
| Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005668-2022 |
| Notice type | Planning Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Not Specified |
| Procurement method details | Not specified |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Planning, Tender, Award |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 2 Mar 2022 |
| Submission deadline | 18 Feb 2022 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | 2 Mar 2022 |
| Contract period | Not specified |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | Not specified |
| Lots value | £2,989,635 |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | £2,989,635 |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Complete |
| Lots status | Active |
| Awards status | Active |
| Contracts status | Active |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS HAMPSHIRE SOUTHAMPTON AND ISLE OF WIGHT CCG |
| Additional buyers | NHS HAMPSHIRE, SOUTHAMPTON AND ISLE OF WIGHT CCG |
| Locality | WINCHESTER |
| Post town | Not specified |
| Postcode | N/A |
| Country | Not specified |
| ITL 1 | Not specified |
| ITL 2 | Not specified |
| ITL 3 | Not specified |
| Local authority | Not specified |
| Electoral ward | Not specified |
| Westminster constituency | Not specified |
| Delivery location | TLJ South East (England) |

## Supplier

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Number of suppliers | 1 |
| Supplier names | ISLE OF WIGHT GP PRACTICES (ALL X12 |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85000000 - Health and social work services

## Release History

- 2 Mar 2022 at 10:26 - Award - Award Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/005668-2022
- 14 Jan 2022 at 13:45 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/001180-2022

## Notice URLs

- https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home

## Provenance

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