Tower Hamlets APMS Procurement

This award notice concerns the procurement of General Practice (GP) Services via an Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) contract for the following:

Lot 1 - The Barkantine Practice, 121 Westferry Rd, London, E14 8JH

Lot 2 - St Andrews Health Centre, 2 Hannaford Walk, London E3 3FF and St Paul's Way Medical Centre, First Floor, 11 Selsey St, London E14 7LJ

The Procurement exercise was conducted via Further Competition / Call-off procedure under NHS England's APMS Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System (PDPS) (OJEU ref: 2020/S 016-034789).

London Shared Service) on behalf of the Authority, in connection with a competitive procurement exercise that was conducted in accordance with a process based on the Open Procedure under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations" (as amended)).

The Service falls within the scope of the Light Touch Regime (LTR) - Section 7 (Reg 74) of the Regulations governing procurement of Health, Social and related services listed under Schedule 3 of the Regulations. None of the references to "Open procedure", "ITT", the use of the term "tender process", or any other indication shall be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold itself bound to any of the Regulations, save those applicable to LTR provisions.

NHS England (NHSE) retains formal liability for the commissioning of primary medical care GP services and is therefore referenced as "the Authority" in this award notice; however, the decisions applicable to this Procurement will was made by North East London Clinical Commissioning Group (NEL CCG) in line with its Delegation Agreement with the Authority. In circumstances where a CCG has accepted fully delegated responsibility under co-commissioning. Its successor body NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) will be the signatory to the Contract on behalf of NHS England.

Additional information: Both Contracts will commence on 01 November 2022 for an initial period of 5 years (60 months). The Contracts may be extended for an additional period of up to 5 years (60 months), at the sole discretion of the Authority, followed by a further optional extension period of up to 5 years (60 months) at the sole discretion of the Authority. Therefore, the maximum duration of both contracts if all available extensions are applied is 15 years (180 months).