Integrated MSK Services for South and West Hertfordshire - Corrigendum Notice

2. II.2.4 - Description of the procurement

The Contracting Authority published an opportunity in Find a Tender on 11th April (reference 2023/S 000-010397) to invite suitably qualified providers to submit offers to deliver an Integrated MSK Service within South & West Hertfordshire. The community iMSK service aims to improve, support, manage and coordinate MSK needs and conditions delivered across primary and community care, but with access to expertise in secondary care for advice, collaboration and onward referral when required. The Notice provided the following wording within Section 11.2.4 - Description of the procurement: Potential providers should note that The Authority may wish to introduce additional services and / or expand the scope of the services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modification(s)"). 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 and / or other Contracting Authorities, as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, the Bidder should be aware that after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the successful Bidder may be offered a variation to the contract to include delivery of the services into the other 'places' within the boundary of The Authority, specifically West Essex place and/or East and North Hertfordshire place (as set out in the map provided within the procurement documents) in accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020). A Corrigendum Notice was published on 10th May 2023 (reference 2023/S 000-013236) to provide further clarity to this statement. The Authority has had further internal discussions and as a result is confirming to the market the removal of this statement altogether, from both the original Notice and the Invitation to Tender documentation. For the avoidance of doubt, the information provided within the Corrigendum Notice, referred to above, should be disregarded. To confirm, the total value of the contract being offered for the scope of the services is as per the values identified in the original notice. For the avoidance of doubt, this is a maximum of £25,000,000 for the 5-year contract (exclusive of VAT). This is the value by which the price evaluation will be undertaken (the aggregate value of the contract, including all potential options and extensions, is up to £35,000,000 (excluding VAT)).