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Clinical Insourcing for Orthopaedic Emergency Patients

Details

Topic
Surgical hospital services
Published
17 October 2025

Tender description

Provision of orthopaedic adult and child emergency outpatient fracture appointments and emergency inpatient and day case trauma surgery to be performed within Musgrove Park Hospital. Lot 1: Provision of orthopaedic adult and child emergency outpatient fracture appointments and emergency inpatient and day case trauma surgery to be performed within Musgrove Park Hospital.<br/>Contract awarded under PSR Most Suitable Provider process. <br/>Estimated total value including extensions: £100,000<br/>Contract start: 1/11/25<br/>Contract end: 31/10/26. Additional information: This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice. Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight on 16 October 2025. This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.<br/>Email address for representations: carrie-anne.hiscock@somersetft.nhs.uk<br/><br/>No conflicts of interest were identified.<br/>The decision to award was made by the Director of Elective Care and the Clinical Service Manager for Orthopaedics.<br/>Key criteria: Quality and innovation 30%, Integration, collaboration and service sustainability 5%, Improving access, reducing health inequalities and facilitating choice 5%, social value 10%, value 10%.

Timeline

  1. Completed: Tender published17 October 2025
    Current notice

About the buyer

Somerset NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital and community services across Somerset, and buys as an NHS trust with its own team of procurement and contract management specialists. Tenders are advertised on the Atamis e-tendering portal, with notices also published on the Find a Tender Service. Clinical services contracts follow the Provider Selection Regime at any contract value. Non-clinical procurement runs through framework agreements, including NHS Supply Chain, NHS Shared Business Services and the Crown Commercial Service. Suppliers below the tender threshold can register on the Trust's database of potential suppliers.

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 Somerset NHS Foundation Trust's contract awards have been in repair and maintenance, IT services and medical equipment and pharmaceuticals.

Relevant CPV codes

  • 85111100 · Surgical hospital services

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