Electrocardiogram for Patients with Serious Mental Illness in the Community

The continuation of services to provide ECG reports for patients in the community with a severe mental illness from the existing provider.

• The continuation of services to provide ECG reports for patients in the community with a severe mental illness from the existing provider (the proposed contracting arrangements are not changing considerably from the

existing contract);

• The contract comprises a mixture of in-scope health care services (ECG interpretation services and out of scope goods;
• lifetime value of the contract for out-of-scope goods (equipment of medical devices) is one-third and lifetime value of the contract for in-scope health care services (ECG interpretations) is two-thirds majority;
• the relevant authority is of the view that the other goods or services could not reasonably be supplied under a separate contract
• as the main subject matter of the contract is in-scope health care services the relevant authority may use PSR to arrange those services
• the relevant authority intends to award a contract for 8 months to the existing provider following direct award process C
• the lifetime value of the contract is £40,000
• The services are intended to be provided with effect from 07 November 2024 to 30 June 2025.