Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-08-16
Buyer: Warwickshire County Council
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85110000: Hospital and related services | 85111000: Hospital services | 85111800 | 85111810 | 85111820
Estimated value: 500000 GBP

Technical requirements: Warwickshire County Council Public Health and Coventry and Rugby CCG are jointly re-commissioning the Community TB Nursing service and wish to engage with the market on the service review and patient engagement, prior to going out to tender.
The Community TB Nursing Service is a specialist nurse-led service that supports and provides care to patients diagnosed with TB within both Warwickshire and Coventry. The Team work with specialist medical staff to ensure a smooth patient journey from diagnosis to discharge and this includes supporting patients to take medication (Directly Observed Therapy DOT), referring for social support, home visits, tracing and testing contacts/family members for TB infection, managing incidents and outbreaks in the community and providing BCG vaccinations. The service provides information and advice to patients and carers and educational/TB awareness sessions to a wide range of professionals.
Warwickshire County Council Public Health and Coventry and Rugby CCG are jointly re-commissioning the Community TB Nursing service and wish to engage with the market on the service review and patient engagement, prior to going out to tender. This is an opportunity for providers to feedback to help shape and develop the new service specification. Commissioners will share the proposed new service model and the outcome of the stakeholder and patient engagement.
The Community TB Nursing Service is a specialist nurse-led service that supports and provides care to patients diagnosed with TB within both Warwickshire and Coventry. The Team work with specialist medical staff to ensure a smooth patient journey from diagnosis to discharge and this includes supporting patients to take medication (Directly Observed Therapy DOT), referring for social support, home visits, tracing and testing contacts/family members for TB infection, managing incidents and outbreaks in the community and providing BCG vaccinations. The service provides information and advice to patients and carers and educational/TB awareness sessions to a wide range of professionals.
The engagement event will be held on Thursday 14.9.2017 14:00 - 17:00 in Committee Room 2, Coventry City Council, Council House, Earl Street, Coventry, CV1 5RS.
To book places please contact rachelbentley@warwickshire.gov.uk An agenda will be circulated nearer the time.
The contract start date will be 1.10.2018. The initial contract term will be 2 years however the Authority reserves the right to extend the contract by further periods not exceeding 24 months at the discretion of the Authority based on the contract performance of the successful applicant.
Warwickshire County Council will be using its e-tendering system (CSW-JETS) for the administration of this procurement process. Providers must register with the system to be able to express an interest and download documents. The web address for CSW-JETS is: www.csw-jets.co.uk Registration and use of CSW-JETS is free. All correspondence or clarifications relating to this procurement must be via the CSWJETS correspondence function. If you are having trouble registering with CSW-JETS please email us at: procurement@warwickshire.gov.uk
Providers must register on CSW-JETS and express an interest in this project in order to download tender documents and be able to correspond with us about this procurement.


Award value: 500000