Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2019-07-03
Buyer: University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85110000: Hospital and related services | 85111000: Hospital services | 85111100: Surgical services
Estimated value: 980000 GBP

Technical requirements: Pilot for the Provision of Theatre Staffing Solution for Elective Orthopaedics and Spinal Surgery Services and Clinical Care
Pilot for the provision of Theatre Staffing Solution for Elective Orthopaedics and Spinal Surgery Services and Clinical Care for an 8 month period.
To utilise an external provider to supply a range of appropriately skilled medical staff, theatre staff and neurophysiology staff for specialist theatre sessions and clinics as specified for orthopaedics and spinal services.
Pilot for the provision of Theatre Staffing Solution for Elective Orthopaedics and Spinal Surgery Services and Clinical Care for an 8 month period.
The Trust intends to award to Staffordshire OrthoSpine Services Ltd, following a 10 day standstill period. The planned pilot period is 1.8.2019 to 31.3.2020. The Trust will competitively tender this requirement during the period of the pilot so that the knowledge and experienced gained from the pilot can be utilised to better inform the specification and tender.
Pilot for the Provision of Theatre Staffing Solution for Elective Orthopaedics and Spinal Surgery Services and Clinical Care for an 8 month period.
The aim of this pilot is to resource and supply suitably skilled staff as required to allow the Trust to run elective orthopaedic or spinal theatre sessions and clinics. This will provide additional capacity to address the current volume of long waiting times or additional activity directed from NHS commissioners. All work will be carried out in Trust premises.
Due to the Trust experiencing increasing difficulty to secure the required sub-specialist consultant support or theatre staffing due to recruitment difficulties, it has become necessary to seek alternative methods to meet demands and maintain or improve RTT waiting times for patients. A potential solution is to deliver work on the Trust’s Royal Stoke and/or County Hospital sites utilising existing theatre infrastructure and staff which would mitigate the loss of existing elective theatre sessions; or additional sessions for additional activity as required.
The contractor will supply as required appropriately skilled theatre/clinical workforce to staff either specialist theatres/clinic sessions within Royal Stoke or County Hospital sites. This could be provided Monday to Sunday dependent upon theatre and clinic requirements and availability and will require specific staffing models potentially including the following roles as required; surgeons, consultant anaesthetists, surgical assistants, Operating Department Practitioner (ODP), Scrub, HCA, Recovery. Each theatre session is based on 4 or 6 hours operating per session.
The Trust will also provide a nominated senior member of their theatre team as a liaison and all activity undertaken in the theatre sessions will be generated by UHNM from the elective Surgical waiting list or associated activity. Associated equipment and implants will be provided by UHNM.
The Trust intends to award to Staffordshire OrthoSpine Services Ltd on a pilot basis, following a 10 day standstill period. The contract will be in accordance with NHS England Template Subcontract for the Provision of Clinical Services for use with the NHS Standard Contract 2019/20 (full length). The planned pilot period is 1.8.2019 to 31.3.2020.
Subject to the success of the pilot, the Trust intends to competitively tender this requirement during the pilot with knowledge and experienced gained from implementing and managing the pilot informing the tender.
The Trust will allow the necessary 10 day standstill period before awarding the contract, ending on 8.7.2019.


Winner: Staffordshire OrthoSpines Services Ltd
Award value: 980000