Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2017-02-23
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Region: Staffordshire CC
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Negotiated without a prior call for competition
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 589000 GBP

Technical requirements: Midlands and Lancashire CSU is publishing this VEAT Notice to confirm our intention to award a contract (subject to approvals) to CHS Healthcare for provision of Continuing Healthcare services. CHS will provide a full end-to-end operational service for delivery of CHC and IPA activities and services. It will also include a full review and revision of current operating model to support operational delivery across nursing, commissioning and brokerage administration and systems implementation and management.
This VEAT Notice is published under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. It is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (‘Regulations’). Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.
Midlands and Lancashire CSU is publishing this VEAT Notice to confirm our intention to award a contract (subject to approvals) to CHS Healthcare for provision of Continuing Healthcare services. CHS will provide a full end-to-end operational service for delivery of CHC and IPA activities and services. It will also include a full review and revision of current operating model to support operational delivery across nursing, commissioning and brokerage administration and systems implementation and management.
We are seeking to work with CHS Healthcare as a specialist CHC provider with expertise and knowledge working in and across the Derbyshire and Leicestershire regions. Their operating model complements our approach and service delivery. Their unique Hospital Discharge programme, including an innovative approach to ‘Discharge to Assess’ work is an integral part of the CHC service support we will be providing to Derbyshire CCGs. We do not believe that there is another supplier who will be able to deliver these services for MLCSU.
Midlands and Lancashire CSU therefore intend to award a contract to CHS Healthcare for 3 years, commencing from 1.4.2017. Following publication of the VEAT notice on 20.2.2017, there will be a 10 day standstill period, concluding on 2.3.2017. Following satisfactory conclusion of the standstill period, we will enter into a contract with CHS Healthcare from 1.4.2017 for 3 years.
This VEAT Notice is published under the Public Contract Regulations 2015. It is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (‘Regulations’). Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.


Number of bids: 1