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PROCUREMENT OPPORTUNITY

Provision of Urgent Award Primary Care Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) for Forest Surgery

NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB · compiled

Tender information last checkedLast checked 29 Sept 2026, 21:05.

Opportunity overview

The current re-procurement has taken longer than anticipated due to a representation made. The current contract with the incumbent expires on 31 March 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 April 2025 to 30 June 2025.

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

Swan Surgery

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Contract value
£270.9k
Awarded
Not supplied
Contract signed
17 Jan 2025
Award ID
002057-2025-1
Status
active
Identifier
GB-NHS Y61
Location
Bury St Edmunds, UKH14, IP33 1AE, United Kingdom

Classification

  • CPV85100000 — Health services

Lots

  • The current Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) Contract to provide the services to patients at Forest Surgery will expire on 31 March 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 of three months from the 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2025. For Emergency: 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. Additional information: For Emergency: To address immediate risks to safety and quality of care.Value not stated

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
ocds-h6vhtk-04d51c
Status
complete
Procurement Method
limited
Main Procurement Category
services
Procurement Method Details
Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition
Why this procedure was chosen
For Emergency: This contract has been awarded under the urgent circumstances provision of the Provider Selection Regime (PSR). This contract has been awarded under 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. This award is being made urgently and the reason for the urgency was not foreseen by the ICB for the reasons outlined within this notice. This award is being made in order to prevent risk to patient and public safety, and the ICB is not able to satisfy the requirements of regulations 6 - 13 for the reasons outlined below. Primary Care Commissioning Group - Chairman's Action. No conflicts of interest, or potential conflicts of interest, were declared by any decision makes.

Legal basis

Id
32014L0024
Scheme
CELEX

Classification

Id
85100000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Health services

Procedure reasons

Entry 1
Id
D_OUTSIDE_SCOPE
Scheme
TED_PT_AWARD_CONTRACT_WITHOUT_CALL
Description
The procurement falls outside the scope of application of the directive

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
cancelled
Has Options
No
Description
The current Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) Contract to provide the services to patients at Forest Surgery will expire on 31 March 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 of three months from the 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2025. For Emergency: 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. Additional information: For Emergency: To address immediate risks to safety and quality of care.

Award criteria

Criteria

Criterion 1
Name
Quality 100
Type
quality
Description
0
Criterion 2
Type
price
Description
0

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery Location

Description
Brandon, Suffolk

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKH14

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-NHS-QJG
Name
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKH14
Locality
Ipswich
Postal Code
IP1 2BX
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Endeavour House

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
BODY_PUBLIC
Scheme
TED_CA_TYPE
Description
Body governed by public law
Entry 2
Id
07
Scheme
COFOG
Description
Health

Identifier

Id
QJG
Scheme
GB-NHS
Legal Name
NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB

Contact

Name
Sarah Skilton
Telephone
+44 1473770225
Organisation 2
Id
GB-NHS-Y61
Name
Swan Surgery

Roles

supplier

Address

Region
UKH14
Locality
Bury St Edmunds
Postal Code
IP33 1AE
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Northgate Street

Details

Scale
sme

Identifier

Id
Y61
Scheme
GB-NHS
Legal Name
Swan Surgery
Organisation 3
Id
GB-FTS-135709
Name
Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board

Roles

reviewBody

Address

Locality
Ipswich
Postal Code
IP1 2BX
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Endeavour House

Identifier

Legal Name
Suffolk and North East Essex Integrated Care Board

Award information

Award 1
Id
002057-2025-1
Status
active

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-NHS-Y61
Name
Swan Surgery

Related lots

1

Contracts and changes

Entry 1
Id
002057-2025-1
Status
active
Award ID
002057-2025-1
Date Signed
17 Jan 2025, 00:00

Value

Amount
270,875
Currency
GBP

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Ipswich · UKH14 · IP1 2BX · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKH14

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. ocds-h6vhtk-04d51c-2025-01-21T15:40:46Zcompiled ·