Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-06-18
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 79512000 | 85100000: Health services | 85121100: General practitioner services | 85141000: Services provided by medical personnel
Estimated value: 0.01 GBP

Technical requirements: Cannock Chase, East Staffordshire, North Staffordshire, South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsular, Stafford and Surrounds and Stoke-on-Trent CCGs currently commission an integrated urgent care service for the population of Staffordshire; this contract comes to an end on the 30.9.2020. The Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent CCG’s are looking to procure an Integrated Urgent Care service in line with the NHS England national service specification from the 1.10.2020; this service will have a core offer which will consist of:
— Primary Care GP Out of Hours (OOH) service (including hear and treat, see at base and home visiting),
The full and final service specification will be published as part of the future procurement process; this is expected to be September 2019.
Area covered by Cannock Chase CCG, Stafford and Surrounds CCG, South East Staffordshire and Seisdon Peninsular CCG, East Staffordshire CCG, North Staffordshire CCG, Stoke-on-Trent CCG.
The commissioners are planning to procure a service to provide an integrated urgent care service for the population of Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent consisting of Core Services:
—  operation of the Urgent Care Centre (UCC) co-located with the Emergency Department of the Royal Stoke Hospital which will provide front door streaming for patients presenting with non-life threatening or serious illnesses. A see and treat service will be provided for streamed patients not requiring ED services.
The CAS will include direct access for health and care professionals. This type of access will be available for emergency ambulance professionals and care home professionals and certain community health professionals initially and is likely to be rolled out to other professionals where opportunity exists for alternatives to A&E attendance. This type of access is known as star 5 or star 6, etc. elsewhere:
— we plan a multi-year contract and intend to commission services developments that will be phased in after the first 12 months with the aim of incorporating other community based urgent care services into the IUC such as rapid response services. We also intend to expand and further develop the CAS,
— core service specifications will be compliant with the National Integrated Urgent Care Service Specification (https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Integrated-Urgent-Care-Service-Specification.pdf),
— please note that within Staffordshire we will be consulting on the future Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) configuration across Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent OT. IUC providers will be expected to provide services fully integrated with future UTCs including direct booking of UTC slots from 111/CAS,
— in line with the NHS Long Term Plan, we intend that by no later than 2023, the CAS will function as the single point of access for patients, carers and health professionals for integrated urgent care and discharge from hospital care.
Following a market engagement event held 28.2.2019 and feedback received, the final full-service specification will be published as part of a future procurement process around early September 2019.
Should a procurement be undertaken, this will be done via the Midlands and Lancashire CSU e-sourcing procurement portal hosted by Bravo Solutions (registration and use of the web site is free of charge). The opportunity will be published in both the Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) and contracts finder. Interested parties will need to be registered with BRAVO Solutions to gain access to the tender documents. Candidates should register on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk the future procurement will be 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 Authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The Contracting Authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the regulations. The procedure which the Contracting Authorities are following will be set out in ITT when issued. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.


Award value: 0.01