Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-07-29
Buyer: NHS Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 6000000 GBP

Technical requirements: The commissioner is seeking the views of healthcare providers for a Termination of Pregnancy Service (TOPS). The provider/s will deliver a termination of pregnancy service that adheres to national clinical guidelines, to the population of Sussex across 7 Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) areas. The anticipated value of the service across all 7 CCGS is approximately 2 000 000 GBP per annum. The commissioner is considering a contract period of 3 years plus an optional extension period.
— pre-and post-termination advice, to include STI and HIV testing and contraception planning and implementation post-termination,
— reducing unintended and unwanted conceptions and repeat terminations of pregnancy in all ages by improving access to long acting reversible contraceptives (LARC’s) and ensuring that access to contraception is included in all TOP pathways,
— increasing the identification of chlamydia and HIV through screening all TOP requesters as a standard procedure thus reducing future prevalence in line with public health outcomes indicators framework.
— to offer high quality, impartial support and advice to all service users who request an TOP, regardless of age, ethnicity, language, disability, sexual orientation, religious or personal circumstances,
— to provide TOP methods clinically appropriate for a service user’s gestation and clinical circumstances,
— to improve the sexual health of service users through sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and HIV screening of all service users,
— to provide information and advice on all methods of contraception and the supply of the full range of reversible contraceptive methods.
This RFI process is designed to help the commissioner form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a tender exercise. A further tender advertisement will be issued as/if required.
Your feedback at this point will not have a bearing on any future tender submissions you may wish to offer at a later date should the commissioner undertake a procurement for this service. You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this RFI but it will be helpful to understand your views at this early stage, so you are encouraged to respond as fully as you can.
Please complete your response and return via our eTendering Portal, https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning, reference: Termination of Pregnancy Services (TOPS) NHS/SOEPS/18.468 RFI by 12:00 Midday on Friday 16.8.2019.
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Award value: 6000000