Awarded· 5 Feb 2025
Secure Optician Services
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust · Knowsley, North West
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Secure Optician Services. It is a contract for other health and social care in Knowsley.
Source: Find a Tender, published 5 Mar 2025. Details are refreshed every 30 minutes.
Key dates
2025
Tender notice updated
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About this tender
In brief
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has awarded Secure Optician Services. It is a contract for other health and social care in Knowsley. The contract went to Specsellers. It was awarded on 5 February 2025. The contract value is £31,000.
It is run as an award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition. Find a Tender published it on 5 March 2025. The notice number is 008097-2025. The OCDS ID is ocds-h6vhtk-04dbf9.
Summary of the contracting process
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust has awarded a contract for the provision of secure optician services at their Maghull Health Park site, encompassing Ashworth High Secure Hospital, Rowan View Medium Secure Hospital, and Aspen Wood Low Secure Unit. The contract, awarded to Specsellers Ltd, will be mobilised from 1 April 2025 to 31 March 2026 with a value of £31,800.
The procurement process was conducted under the Provider Selection Regime Regulations 2023, specifically under Direct Award process C, allowing the contract to be directly awarded without prior publication of a call for competition, due to the existing provider's satisfactory performance and minimal changes to the service.
SMEs with a track record of delivering similar services to vulnerable and high-risk patient populations are well-suited to compete for similar contracts in the future.
The notice in full
Provision of optician services to secure patients at our Maghull Health Park site. Hospitals covered by the contract will include Ashworth High Secure Hospital (210 beds over 13 impatient wards), Rowan View Medium Secure Hospital (123 beds over 8 impatient wards) and Aspen Wood Low Secure Unit (40 beds over 2 impatient wards).
Lots (1)
- 01
Lot 1Cancelled
Mersey Care NHS FT intends to contract with Specsellers Ltd. for the provision of optician services to secure patients at our Maghull Health Park site. Hospitals covered by the contract will include Ashworth High Secure Hospital (210 beds over 13 impatient wards), Rowan View Medium Secure Hospital (123 beds over 8 impatient wards) and Aspen Wood Low Secure Unit (40 beds over 2 impatient wards).
For the new contract, MCFT requires the service to be mobilised from 01 April 2025 for a period of 12 months to 31 March 2026. The contract value is approximately PS31k.
It is intended to award the contract in accordance with the Provider Selection Regime Regulations under Direct Award process C where there is an existing provider for the services and that existing provider is satisfying the original contract and will likely satisfy the proposed new contract, and where additionally the services are not changing considerably.
Key facts
Contract
- Service
- Other health and social care
- Procurement type
- Standard
- Category
- Services
- Contract period
- Not specified - Not specified
- Lots
- 1
- Awarded to
- Specsellers
- Number of suppliers
- 1
Procedure
- Notice type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement method
- Limited
- Procedure
- Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
- Current stage
- Award
- Stages so far
- Tender, Award
- Published on
- Find a Tender Service
- Awardee scale
- SME
Values
- Contracts value
- £31,000
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
- 008097-2025
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04dbf9
- CPV code
- 85100000 - Health services
- CPV division
- 85 - Health and social work services
Location
- Local authority
- Knowsley
- Town
- Liverpool
- Postcode
- L34 1PJ
- Electoral ward
- St Michaels
- Constituency
- Knowsley
- Delivery area
- Merseyside
- Region
- North West
- Sub-region
- East Merseyside
- Area
- Merseyside
- Country
- England
Buyer and supplier
Contracting authority
- Organisation
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Category
- Services
- Contact
- Brian Flanagan
- Phone
- +44 7817216791
- Address
- Prescot, L34 1PJ · North West · England
Awarded supplier
- Supplier
- Specsellers
- Awardee scale
- SME
- Number of suppliers
- 1
- Awards value
- Not stated
- Company record
- Search Companies House
Documents and links
Questions about Secure Optician Services
Who won the Secure Optician Services contract?
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust awarded the contract to Specsellers on 5 February 2025.
How much is the Secure Optician Services contract worth?
The contract value is £31,000.
Who is the buyer for Secure Optician Services?
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, based in Knowsley, North West. The named contact is Brian Flanagan, on +44 7817216791.
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