Awarded contract

GP Out of Hours Service Provision

Details

Buyer: NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership
Supplier(s): Principle Medical Group Ltd
Topic: Health services
Published: 13 November 2023
Source: uk:sell2wales

Tender description

The Contractor must deliver the Services, as set out in the specification, for patients for fifty two (52) weeks of the year on the following days and during the following times for patients in Merthyr Tydfil and Cynon Valley:- • Saturdays and Sundays - between the hours of 9:00-21:00; and • All bank holidays - between the hours of 09:00-21:00 The Contractor must deliver the Services, as set out in the specification, for patients for fifty two (52) weeks of the year on the following days and during the following times for patients in Bridgend:- • Saturdays - between the hours of 9:00-21:00; and • All bank holidays - between the hours of 09:00-21:00 and The Contractor will be expected to deliver four face-to-face appointments per hour and to provide sufficient appointment capacity to meet this demand. Providing a minimum number of appointments of fifteen minutes duration per hour.

Timeline

Completed: Award date21 April 2023
Completed: Award published13 November 2023
Current notice

About the buyer

NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership is hosted by Velindre NHS Trust and buys as a healthcare body for every health board and trust in Wales through its Procurement Services division. Tenders are advertised on Sell2Wales and run through the eTenderWales portal. Frameworks cover capital equipment, pharmaceuticals, clinical supplies, food, utilities, maintenance, IT and the commissioning of healthcare services. Local procurement teams work with each health board alongside sourcing, supply chain and accounts payable teams. Where appropriate, tenders are split into smaller lots so SMEs can bid.

UK health spending has nearly quadrupled to £241.8bn in 2024/25, £20bn up on the year before. £140.6bn of that went to procurement, the biggest sector of UK public spending and the fastest-growing.

Over the past 5 years, most of NHS Wales - Shared Services Partnership's contract awards have been in health and social work, medical equipment and pharmaceuticals and repair and maintenance.

Relevant CPV codes

85100000 · Health services

Decision makers

Connect with the people behind this procurement.

Job title	Phone number	Work email
Head of Procurement	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Commercial Director	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Procurement Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Category Lead	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Senior Buyer	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov
Contracts Manager	+44 •••• ••••••	••••••••@nhs-wales-shared-services-partnership.gov