Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-07-14
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 9000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-07-21
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The aim of the Service is to provide high quality, responsive and clinically safe GP Out of Hours (OOHs) care accessible to the local population across Stafford and Surrounding villages, Cannock Chase and South East Staffordshire that supports system resilience across the health economy and improves patient experience and outcomes. The service forms an integral part of the emergency and urgent care system and enhances the provision of urgent care services provided in south Staffordshire. In addition the service will include out of hours care to prisoners within Staffordshire.
Contract length will be for 36 months with the option to extend by 24 months at the discretion of the CCGs. Anticipated start April 2018.
Geographic area covered by Cannock Chase CCG, Stafford and Surrounds CCG, South East Staffordshire CCG. HM Prisons located in the County of Staffordshire.
The aim of the Service is to provide high quality, responsive and clinically safe GP Out of Hours (OOHs) care accessible to the local population across Stafford and Surrounding villages, Cannock Chase and South East Staffordshire that supports system resilience across the health economy and improves patient experience and outcomes. The service forms an integral part of the emergency and urgent care system and enhances the provision of urgent care services provided in south Staffordshire. In addition the service will include out of hours care to prisoners within Staffordshire. The service will deliver the following objectives:
— Improved pathways for patients accessing out of hours medical services and a seamless handover with in-hours primary care teams;
— Provide a high quality, efficient and cost-effective service that fully meets the urgent primary medical care needs of patients;
— Collaboration with all urgent care providers across the acute sector, community services, voluntary sector providers, general practice and other primary care providers;
— Increased patient satisfaction, consistently reporting 95 % positive experience via the patient surveys;
— Innovative use of IMT, ensuring appropriate access to patient records/patient special notes and systems to facilitate the sharing of information.
If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. The contract conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the course of the tender process. This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk
i) Candidates should register on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge). If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register. For technical support in registering on the Bravo site contact the help-desk on +44 8003684850 or E-mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk
To register an expression of interest to participate in and access the tender, please e-mail in the first instance Deborah Boone on deborah.boone12@nhs.net and Roman Klimczak on r.klimczak@nhs.net
Please submit the following information: Organisation name and address; telephone number; e-mail address; web site address and organisation type. You must submit your expression of interest by the deadline stated (21.7.2017).
‘Light Touch Regime’ services: This procurement 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 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 is set out in the MOI. 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.
The Commissioners may hold a bidders event 1 week after the issue of the tender documents. Details to be issued with the tender documents.


Award value: 9000000