Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-06-10
Buyer: NHS London Procurement Partnership contracting as Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Country: UK
Region: UNITED KINGDOM
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85149000
Estimated value:  GBP

Technical requirements: London Procurement Partnership (LPP) contracts as Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and is issuing this Prior Information Notice of its intention to undertake a competitive procurement of a Framework Agreement for Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing Services. With an increasing number of LPP member organisations looking to generate efficiencies and service improvements in Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing, LPP has taken the decision to tender for a framework agreement for these services. The aim of the framework agreement will be to enable LPP member Trusts and NHS organisations throughout the United Kingdom to accelerate and streamline the procurement process, thereby allowing for early realisation of benefits. Likely to be accessible only through further competition, the purpose of the framework agreement will be to achieve a degree of standardisation of headline governance and outline specification. Furthermore LPP will be creating a further competition tool-kit for organisations wishing to use the framework agreement thereby seeking to standardise the approach so as to simplify processes for supplier and NHS organisation alike. This notice does not constitute a call for competition. The purpose of this PIN is to encourage any organisations interested in delivering Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing Services under a framework agreement to engage with LPP. LPP wishes to gather information and intelligence as to how LPP can develop a framework agreement and run a procurement process that will enable LPP to meet the needs of its member Trusts and NHS organisations entitled to use the resulting framework agreement. LPP encourage any organisations interested in delivering Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing Services under a framework agreement to engage with LPP. Further details on how to engage and the process LPP will follow can be obtained from: marc.osborne@lpp.nhs.uk The deadline for expressing an interest to engage is Thursday, 30.6.2016. LPP is not liable for any costs incurred by those expressing an interest in or participating in the engagement process or by those tendering for any future contract opportunity. An indicative list of potential framework agreement participants is as follows: Acute Trusts: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AcuteTrustListing.aspx Clinical commissioning groups (CCGs): http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CCGListing.aspx Mental Health Trusts: http:// www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/MentalHealthTrustListing.aspx Ambulance Trusts: http://www.nhs.uk/ ServiceDirectories/Pages/AmbulanceTrustListing.aspx Care Trusts: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/ Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA): http://www.ntda.nhs.uk/ Special Health Authorities: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx Arms Length Bodies: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arms-length-bodies/our-arms-length-bodies NHS England: http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/d-com/ and other organisations involved in commissioning of primary care services via Clinical Commissioning Groups — CCGs supported by the Commissioning Support Units — CSU's which will be responsible for commissioning most aspects of NHS care (or equivalent body/ bodies established pursuant to legislation enacted as a result of, or in connection with, the White Paper, Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS published July 2010. CCG: www.commissioningboard.nhs.uk/ ccg-details/ CSU: www.commissioningboard.nhs.uk/appointments/csu NHS Professional Regulator: http:// www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/healthregulators/Pages/professional-standards-authority.aspx The Clinical Commissioning Board, Area Teams: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx and other organisations involved in commissioning and/or overseeing General Practitioner services and GP consortia and GP Practices: and any other provider of primary medical services: a) who are a party to any of the following contracts: — General Medical Services (GMS), — Personal Medical Services (PMS), — Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) and/or b) Commissioned by NHS England or other organisations involved in commissioning or overseeing General Practitioner services, as described above. Social Enterprises: http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/ Local Authorities: http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/org/la-data.do NHS Wales (National Health Service for Wales) including but not limited to: Welsh Health Boards, Primary care services — GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.nhsdirect.wales.nhs.uk/ localservices/localhealthboards/NHSScotland (National Health Service for Scotland) including but not limited to: NHS Boards, Hospitals, Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/index.aspx NHS Northern Ireland (National Health Service for Northern Ireland) including but not limited to: Health and Social Care Trusts, Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, social care services and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.hscni.net/