Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2016-08-10
Buyer: NHS South Devon and Torbay Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Region: Torbay
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85111000: Hospital services | 85111200: Medical services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85141000: Services provided by medical personnel
Estimated value: 300000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-08-19

Technical requirements: Commissioners are seeking interest from suitably qualified potential provider(s) to assist with capacity and support for the current outpatient neurology service in South Devon and Torbay. The service is targeted on the over 18 population who are registered with a GP in the SD&T CCG area. We are particularly interested in community and nurse led models of care supported by early consultant diagnosis.
Potential providers are asked to contact Gill Munday: gill.munday@nhs.net or Emma Herd: emma.herd1@nhs.net within the period from 5.8.2016 to 19.8.2016 to discuss the opportunities and explore possibilities to help the CCG to meet its urgent and pressing need. Contact outside of this period may not be considered due to the urgent need to resolve capacity issues to meet the needs of patients.
Any resulting contract is envisaged to be to bridge the gap to assist the current capacity issues. We envisage this to be to the order of 12 months with an optional 12 month extension period.
The capacity issues relate to general neurological conditions including epilepsy, headache and migraine. The service would provide:
We have difficulty stating the exact value of the contract but can share with those providers who engage with us details around the activity shortfall that presents us with an urgent and pressing need. To help potential providers understand if they can assist we have supplied the best estimated (potential) annual value that we are able to calculate at this point.
To note, this prior information notice may result in a call for offers and lead to contract award. The reader should therefore consider this information notice as a call for competition that may result in an award of contract under the provision of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Any process arising from the PIN will be run in a transparent process, treating all bidders equally.
The Services are healthcare services within the meaning and scope of Annex XIV of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (‘the Directive’) and Schedule 3 to the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (‘the Regulations’). The procurement will be conducted in accordance with the requirements and flexibilities provided by Articles 74 to 76 of the Directive and Regulations 74 to 76 of the Regulations. The Authority will run a transparent procurement process, treating all bidders equally. For the avoidance of doubt, the Authority will not be bound by the Regulations or the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these Services. The use of any language or terms found in the Directive or Regulations, nor any other indication or described procedure voluntarily adopted by the Authority shall be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold itself bound by the Directive or Regulations.

Eligibility requirements: Relevant licences to practice in regard to the subject matter service required.

Award value: 300000