Termination of Pregnancy Services in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes

NHS BLMK Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) invited suitably qualified service providers to submit tenders for the provision of Termination of Pregnancy Services in Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes. Following a competitive procurement process the contract was awarded to British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS).

The key objectives of the service are:

• To offer high quality, impartial support and advice to all service users who request a termination of pregnancy, regardless of age, ethnicity, language, disability, sexual orientation, religious or personal circumstances.
• To provide service users with access to a termination of pregnancy as early as possible.
• To provide termination of pregnancy methods clinically appropriate for a service user's gestation and clinical circumstances.
• To improve the sexual health of service users through providing sexual health screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia, and sexually transmitted infections (STIs).
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception, and the supply of the full range of reversible contraceptive methods.

The service will provide the following for the population of BLMK:

• Offer face to face appointments for all young people aged 18 and under.
• Offer telemedicine and face to face appointments for Service Users as clinically appropriate.
• Advice for unwanted pregnancy and referral for termination of pregnancy.
• Pre-and post-termination support and advice and contraception planning and implementation posttermination.
• Active Health promotion/prevention campaigns on Sexual Health.
• Ensuring that contraception advice, support and provision is available as part of all termination of pregnancy service care pathways.
• Reducing unintended and unwanted conceptions and repeat terminations of pregnancy in all ages by improving access to long acting reversible contraception.
• To improve the sexual health of service users through proactively signposting to local sexual health services for screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia, other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV.
• To improve the sexual health of service users through proactively offering sexual health screening and treatment as appropriate for Chlamydia and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• To provide information and advice on all methods of contraception,(with particular emphasis on the promotion of LARC) and the offer of the full range of reversible contraceptive methods. Where the supply of contraception is not appropriate, the service user should be signposted to local contraceptive and sexual health services.

Additional information: The contract term is 33 months (01st July 2022 to 31st March 2025) with an option to extend for a further 24 months subject to performance and stakeholder agreement (Maximum 57 month contract).

The maximum contract value for the contract is £6,539,640.

The services to which this process relates fall within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended by The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020) ("the Regulations"). As such, the CCG does not intend to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 Services.

The contract opportunity was advertised in the Find Tender Service, Reference: 2022/S 000-000132.