Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-11-10
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS")
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Innovation partnership
CPV classification: 33168000 | 85150000: Medical imaging services
Estimated value: 10000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-12-07
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The requirement for this procurement is to identify an Innovation Partner who will develop an innovative CCE (Colon Capsule Endoscopy) managed service integrated into the NHS across Scotland with the aim of improving the patient journey, improving outcomes and reducing the requirement for traditional hospital-based optical colonoscopy procedures.
The innovation partner will provide colon endoscopy capsules and a delivery, reading and reporting service to NHS Scotland.
NHS Scotland is looking identify an Innovation Partner who will develop an innovative CCE (Colon Capsule Endoscopy) managed service integrated into the NHS across Scotland with the aim of improving the patient journey, improving outcomes and reducing the requirement for traditional hospital-based optical colonoscopy procedures.
Innovation Partner who will perform CCE (Colon Capsule Endoscopy), delivery, reading and reporting service including all, or some of the following components:
In addition, in regards to IT integration, the service will be able to seamlessly refer a patient to a video capsule endoscopy and receive the report the same way as any other endoscopy report. This includes scheduling of follow-ups as well as integration into patient records such as SCI Store and with Trakcare. Users of alternative endoscopy management systems could be connected into the NHS IT infrastructure.
It will also provide a dedicated portal is available for additional status reporting and other information for patients, care takers and consultants.
Phase 1 consists of a circa 500 patient trial which will determine the clinical and economical viability of this innovative service.
Any renegotiation of the contract following phase 1 will be in line with Regulation 72 of The Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
Phase 2 will see the widespread adoption of the service. The duration of Phase 1 of the contract will be 6 months.
Please note, the contract value given in this Contract Notice is an indicative figure. Given this is a new innovative approach the final value of the contract could vary substantially.
It is a requirement of this Innovation Partnership that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types of insurance indicated below.
1) All candidates will be required to provide a statement, covering 3 previous financial years including the overall turnover of the Candidate in respect of the activities which are similar type to the subject matter of the notice;
2) All candidates will be required to provide statement of accounts or extracts relating to their business. See contract/tender documentation which incorporates the requirements of the ESPD (Scotland) and the financial period of reporting is the previous 3 years.
ESPD Question 4C.1.2 For public supply and public service contracts only, potential Innovation Partners must provide relevant examples of supplies and/or services carried out during the last 3 years which are similar to the activities described below.
The project requirement is for the provision of a CCE (Colon Capsule Endoscopy), delivery, reading and reporting service to provide an innovative Point-of-Care (PoC) investigation of the lower Gastrointestinal (GI) tract using minimally invasive CCE. The aim of this requirement is to improve the patient journey, improve patient outcomes and reduce the requirement for traditional hospital-based optical colonoscopy procedures. The Project will further test the utility of CCE, its acceptability to a wide patient cohort and models of delivery encompassing rural and urban comparison sites.

Eligibility requirements: It is a requirement of this Innovation Partnership that bidders hold, or can commit to obtain prior to the commencement of any subsequently awarded contract, the types of insurance indicated below. Professional Indemnity Insurance = 5 000 000 GBP.

Award value: 10000000