This is a Contract Award Notice notifying the market of the successful conclusion of the procurement for Community Eye-care Services for Intraocular Pressure and Children's Cycloplegic Refraction services.

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) managed this procurement process for and on behalf of NHS Newcastle Gateshead, NHS North Tyneside, NHS South Tyneside, NHS Sunderland and NHS Northumberland Clinical Commissioning Groups the (Contracting Authorities).

The Contracting Authorities have commissioned Community Eye-care Services for Intraocular Pressure and Children's Cycloplegic Refraction Services in the Newcastle, Gateshead, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland and Northumberland areas.

The service has been awarded under one contract with NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group as the coordinating commissioner with associates NHS North Tyneside, NHS South Tyneside, NHS Sunderland and NHS Northumberland CCGs.

The basic principles of the Open Procurement route were followed for this procurement to test the capacity, capability, and technical competence of Tenderers in accordance with The Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended). Regulation 120 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provides for a temporary exemption and saving for certain NHS procurements. Regulation 120 provides that nothing in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 affects any contract award procedure that relates to the procurement of health care services for the purposes of the NHS within the meaning and scope of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013(b), that is commenced before 18.4.2016 and any subsequent contract awarded as a result of such a procedure. The current Part B regime of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) and NHS (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013(b) will continue to apply to the commissioning of these services until 18.4.2016.