Primary Care Partner (GP Services) for Urgent Treatment Centre

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This notice is in relation to the competitive procurement for the Primary Care Partner (GP Services) for the Urgent Treatment Centre at University Hospital Lewisham run by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.<br/><br/>Further to its previous decision to abandon the procurement dated 24 October 2025, the Trust received notification of potential legal challenge in respect of that decision. The Trust subsequently cancelled the earlier abandonment decision and returned to an earlier stage in the procurement process.<br/><br/>On 6 March 2026, the Trust took a further decision to abandon the procurement. This decision was taken due to identified flaws in the evaluation process which prevented a fair evaluation of providers, and the Trust’s decision to adopt a revised service delivery model based on Trust-employed GPs.<br/><br/>The Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Competitive Process selected for this procurement has been abandoned and a contract has not been awarded. The Trust does not intend to carry out a new procurement process for these services.<br/><br/>This process has been abandoned 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. Lot 1: Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (the “Authority”) conducted a competitive process for a Primary Care Partner (GP Services) for Urgent Treatment Centre in accordance with the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.<br/><br/>The Urgent Care Centre (UCC) for Lewisham is provided by Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) and based within University Hospital Lewisham ED. The Trust was seeking a primary care partner for their Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) at University Hospital Lewisham This partner will provide GPs, a lead GP and streaming for the UTC. Whilst the primary care partner will provide all of the GP workforce, the delivery of the streaming provision will be split between the Trust and the provider. The UTC will be managed by LGT.<br/><br/>The anticipated Contract term: 1st April 2025 to 31st March 2030 with the ability to extend the contract by up to 60 months at the sole discretion of the Trust (in multiple periods as required by the Trust).<br/><br/>The estimated lifetime value of this contract is based on the annual estimated value, the maximum contract length if all the extension options were exercised by the Trust and an assumed inflationary uplift of 2% per annum. Please note that the Trust has linked any uplift to the value of this contract to the inflationary value that it receives from its commissioners so this is an estimate and subject to change.<br/><br/>The contract value has been calculated based on an annual value of £1,204,272 over the 5-year initial term. If the extension options are exercised in full this would be a value of £12,042,720 over 10 years. These prices are also subject to variations or uplift in line with the published procurement documentation and contract documents.