Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-07-07
Buyer: Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 6500000 GBP

Technical requirements: The Provision of a Community Diagnostic Service — Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Non-obstetric Ultrasound (NOUS) and Adult Hearing Screening — NHS Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group
NHS Shared Business Services is managing this prior information notice (PIN), market engagement exercise and future procurement process for the provision of a community diagnostics — magnetic resonance imaging MRI, non-obstetric ultrasound and adult hearing screening service on behalf of NHS Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group (the CCG).
NHS Shared Business Services is managing this prior information notice (PIN), market engagement exercise and future procurement process for the provision of a community diagnostics — magnetic resonance imaging, non-obstetric ultrasound and adult hearing screening service on behalf of NHS Wigan Borough Clinical Commissioning Group (the CCG).
NHS Wigan Borough CCG is committed to supporting people through all stages of life and this service is one of the key services to serve all our adult population. Enabling people to receive support closer to home, in the place and outside of traditional working hours is part of our drive to improve service user experience.
We continue to build on the opportunities created by the Wigan Deal 2030 and the Healthier Wigan Partnership with services becoming more integrated and supporting people on an individual basis to access services from the wider public sector to manage their conditions including the voluntary and community sector.
The CCG is issuing this PIN as a call for competition and a market engagement exercise to gather market intelligence/information via a market engagement questionnaire (MEQ), to gain a better understanding of the capacity and appetite of the market in delivering the proposed services for the people of Wigan Borough and to alert the market to a future tender opportunity.
It is important to note that this PIN is a call for competition and as such potential providers will need to be aware that there will be no further notices published in regard to this tender opportunity other than a contract award notice published in Official Journal European Union (OJEU) and on contracts finder. Potential bidders must express an interest in order to be invited to participate in the procrement.
It should be noted that at this stage this PIN/MEQ invites providers to respond to the MEQ and express an interest in any future tender process. It is not however a pre-qualification questionnaire and is not part of any pre-qualification or selection these documents will be published on the EU-supply procurement portal at a later date.
This PIN/MEQ is intended as an awareness, communication and information gathering exercise. An expression of interest does not act as an indication of a commitment to participate in the MEQ process nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who express an interest in the MEQ exercise.
This market engagement intends to identify interested providers and invite their feedback on the new service model as specified, including a focus on the commercial aspects of the contract such as pricing.
Following market engagement, the CCG intends to commence a procurement process to award a new single contract from April 2021 for a period of 3 years, with the option to extend for a further two at the CCGs discretion. It should be noted that there will be no guarantees of volume or payment in the contract awarded. Whilst the contract will be paid on actual activity with no guarantees of volume, the estimated costs associated with this service, based on 5 years (3 years + 2 years optional extension) is GBP 6.5 million.
The draft service specification and the MEQ can be accessed by using the following link: https://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=33529&B=NHSSBS
The CCG would welcome responses from those organisations who may be interested in bidding for this service, either in their own right or as a subcontractor, to assist the CCG to achieve a better understanding of the provider market. Please register an expression of interest on the EU Supply eTendering Portal reference 40336, as well as completing the MEQ and submitting via the messaging system on the EU-Supply portal, by 4 p.m. on 23 July 2020.
Participation in the market engagement exercise is not a mandatory requirement for participating in any future procurement however potential bidders do need to express an interest in order to be invited to participate in the procurement process.


Award value: 6500000