Pre-Term Birth Recruitment

Concepts

• specialist organisations
• preterm birth clinics
• genomic pre-term birth project
• recruiting sites
• pre-term birth recruitment
• recruitment
• recruited
• recruiting
• birth
• healthcare administration

Location

London

Description

Recruitment of participants to a national diversity and genomic pre-term birth project

Total Quantity or Scope

Provide critical resource at recruiting sites to ensure study set up is completed in a timely fashion, through the provision of operations and logistics support. Provide critical resourcing, through research midwives, for the consenting (prospectively) and reconsenting (retrospectively) of participants in preterm birth clinics. Provide the best possible route to ensuring that a meaningful number of participants are recruited into the study, increasing the likelihood of impactful, and translational research.

Award Detail

CPV Codes

• 98113000 - Services furnished by specialist organisations
• 75122000 - Administrative healthcare services

Indicators

Legal Justification

The Contracting Authority (i) has a legal personality; (ii) is mainly funded by the Department of Health and Social Care; and (iii) has been established for the specific purpose of meeting needs in the general interest, and does not have an industrial or commercial character and therefore meets the definition of a "body governed by public law" under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("PCR"). The PCR covers "public contracts" which means contracts for pecuniary interest which have as their object the execution of works, the supply of products or the provision of services. The Contract is a services contract under PCR, therefore, caught by the PCR and therefore bound to follow public procurement rules. Regulation 32(2)(b)(ii) PCR describes the single operator exclusion and is the premise for this award without prior publication. This specific exclusion relates to a requirement to access a national network for pre-term birth, which is run by Imperial College. As such the services in question cannot be obtained by any other economic operator. The Contracting Authority will enter into a contract with Imperial College London following the conclusion of a minimum 10 day standstill period from the date of issue of this notice. The 10 day standstill period will end on 07/05/20224 at 23.59 BST, enabling a contract to be signed on 08/05/2024.