Awarded· 17 Jan 2025
Provision of Urgent Award Primary Care Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) for Forest Surgery
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board · Ipswich, East
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded this contract. It is a contract for other health and social care in Ipswich.
Source: Find a Tender, published 14 Mar 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Contract awarded
Swan Surgery
2025
Award notice published
Award Notice · 13:26
View notice
About this tender
In brief
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board has awarded this contract. It is a contract for other health and social care in Ipswich. The contract went to Swan Surgery. It was awarded on 17 January 2025. The contract value is £1,145,315.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 14 March 2025. The notice number is 009439-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-04ed4d.
Summary of the contracting process
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board is seeking to ensure continued provision of Primary Medical Services at Forest Surgery in Brandon, Suffolk. The procurement process is classified under the Health Services industry and is currently in the Award stage following an urgent award due to extraordinary circumstances.
The existing contract will expire on 30 June 2025, and the new short-term contract will run from 1 July 2025 until 30 June 2026. This urgent procurement is governed by the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, and has bypassed the usual Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
The limited procurement method, due to urgent circumstances, highlights the importance of consistency and reliability in healthcare provision, making it an ideal fit for well-established medical service providers.
The notice in full
The current re-procurement has taken longer than anticipated due to a representation made. The current contract with the incumbent expires on 30 June 2025 and as a consequence there is a requirement to award a short-term contract whilst the procurement concludes. The new contract will be from 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026.
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
The current Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) Contract to provide the services to patients at Forest Surgery will expire on 30 June 2025. The Urgent Award to the existing provider is to ensure that there is continued provision of Primary Medical Services to the registered population of Forest Surgery in Brandon whilst the procurement in place to award a new contract is concluded.
There is a requirement to award a new short term contract from the 1 July 2025 to 30 June 2026. NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board are awarding the contract named within this notice due to an urgent circumstance which is outlined within the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
The ICB may wish to introduce additional services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modifications"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority as named in the Contract Notice.
To this end, after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the contract may be varied as allowable in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Swan Surgery
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- Award Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- SME
- Buyer's portal
- In-Tend
Values
- Contracts value
- £1,145,315
Not stated in the notice: tender value, lots value, awards value.
Status
- Tender
- Complete
- Lots
- Cancelled
- Awards
- Active
- Contracts
- Active
References
- Find a Tender notice
- 009439-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04ed4d
- CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Ipswich
- Town
- Ipswich
- Postcode
- IP1 2BX
- Electoral ward
- Gipping
- Constituency
- Ipswich
- Delivery area
- Suffolk CC
- Region
- East
- Sub-region
- Ipswich
- Area
- Suffolk
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Caryn Akers
- Address
- Ipswich, IP1 2BX · East · England
Not stated in the notice: phone.
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Swan Surgery
- Awardee scale
- SME
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about this tender
Who won the Provision of Urgent Award Primary Care Alternative Provider Medical Services… contract?
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board awarded the contract to Swan Surgery on 17 January 2025.
How much is the Provision of Urgent Award Primary Care Alternative Provider Medical Services… contract worth?
The contract value is £1,145,315.
Who is the buyer for Provision of Urgent Award Primary Care Alternative Provider Medical Services…?
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board, based in Ipswich, East. The named contact is Caryn Akers.
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