Public procurement notice: Voluntary Ex Ante Transparency Notice
Published: 2018-11-09
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU on behalf of Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group, William Farr House, Mytton Oak Road, Shrewsbury, SY3 8XL
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Contract award without prior publication
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85110000: Hospital and related services
Estimated value: 775905 GBP
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: This is a Voluntary Ex Ante notice for the purpose of Transparency and is not a call for competition.
NHS Shropshire CCG wish to publish their intent with regards to the following service – Shropshire Fracture Liaison Service.
The Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) is a multidisciplinary service, which aims to systematically identify, investigate, initiate treatment and integrate care for all eligible patients, over the age of 50 within the Shropshire CCG local population who have suffered a fragility fracture; with the aim of reducing their risk of subsequent (or secondary) fractures.
The intent is to award this contract to Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust (SATH) without a call for competition. Providers are invited to express comment or interest on this intent.
This notice aims at providing voluntary prior transparency as referred to in Article 2d(4) of Directives 89/665/EEC and 92/13/EEC on Remedies, and Article 60(4) of Directive 2009/81/EC (information on the award of the contract without prior publication of a contract notice in the Official Journal of the European Union).
This is a Voluntary Ex Ante notice for the purpose of Transparency and is not a call for competition. NHS Shropshire CCG wish to publish their intent with regards to the following service – Shropshire Fracture Liaison Service.
The Fracture Liaison Service (FLS) is a multidisciplinary service, which aims to systematically identify, investigate, initiate treatment and integrate care for all eligible patients, over the age of 50 within the Shropshire CCG local population who have suffered a fragility fracture; with the aim of reducing their risk of subsequent (or secondary) fractures.
The service will promote coordination between acute, community and primary care to ensure that care is seamless and consistent. This integrated approach will include:
— assess all appropriate patients with new clinical and/or radiological fragility fracture presentation at any skeletal site.
— those presenting acutely and not requiring hospital admission but managed as outpatients via orthopaedic fracture clinic or emergency department follow up,
— triage and provide a bone health assessment of identified patients within 3 months of incident fracture. These patients will have a bone health clinical assessment by a Fracture Liaison Nurse, who will do this assessment,
— bone health management plan to be agreed with the patient. This should include information on bone health, lifestyle, nutrition and bone protection treatments. A copy to be held by the patient and the patient’s general practitioner,
— initiation of pharmacological treatment for fracture risk reduction in line with agreed guidelines. Osteoporosis treatment is typically recommended in about 75 % of cases,
— specialist clinic support for secondary care clinicians in managing complex and rare bone conditions,
The CCG are looking to award this contract to Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust for 5 years to form part of their core contract.


Winner: Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Award value: 775905