Awarded contract

NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria Community Dermatology

Details

Value
£8,962,929
Duration
3 years
Topic
Health services
Published
19 January 2024

Tender description

NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) are publishing this Contract Award notice on behalf of NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB).who have awarded a contract to deliver Community Dermatology across Lancashire and South Cumbria. The objective of the Community Dermatology Service was to develop a single point of referral One-Stop service for patients with Dermatological presentation. To ensure that patients within the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB population receive the right care, delivered in the right place,by the right person, the first time. Ensuring appropriately tiered care provision through effective triage and referral optimisation. The provider is expected to support ICB led service development and innovation through tele dermatology and digital triage solutions, integrating with acute and primary care providers to offer a seamless dermatology triage and treatment service in Lancashire & South Cumbria. The contract is for 2 years with a possibility to extend for up to one year. As activity is not guaranteed, the estimated annual contract value is £2,987,643 per annum, however, this may vary.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Award date1 November 2023
  2. Completed: Award published19 January 2024
    Current notice
  3. Next: Contract expiry date31 October 2026in 1 month

About the buyer

NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU is an NHS commissioning support unit, a healthcare body with its own healthcare and non-clinical procurement teams. The healthcare procurement team takes NHS commissioners from market research through bid evaluation to contract award. Clinical services are procured under the Provider Selection Regime, including Direct Award C, competitive and Most Suitable Provider processes. Goods and services are bought through tenders and mini-competitions run by senior procurement managers. Suppliers register and respond on the unit's own eSourcing portal. Purchasing processes have held the CIPS Procurement Excellence Standard since 2019.

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 Midlands and Lancashire CSU's contract awards have been in software and information systems, IT services and communications equipment.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 85100000 · Health services

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