Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2017-03-03
Buyer: NHS Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Region: Wirral
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85121283 | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85142100 | 85323000
Estimated value: 125000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-03-17
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Musculoskeletal (MSK) services are provided across Wirral and include elective orthopaedics, orthopaedic outpatients, physiotherapy, podiatry, pain management and rheumatology. Patients are typically referred into these services from general practice; however admissions through the emergency department and minor injury units are also common place. NHS Wirral Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) seeks to implement an Integrated MSK Service under a prime provider contract. The CCG intends to award a contract to a single provider who will either deliver in its entirety or sub-contract up to a maximum of 30 % (by value) of service provision. The Integrated MSK service must be a consultant led service, accessible through a triage service operating in a community based setting and be integrated in to onward secondary care services.
This PIN is a call for competition to invite potential providers of integrated musculoskeletal services to express an interest. Services must be delivered in both a community based and secondary care setting within the Wirral peninsula boundary and include; Physiotherapy Consultant Led Triage Service, elective orthopaedics, orthopaedic outpatients, physiotherapy, podiatry, pain management and rheumatology.
Bidders are required to comply with and meet requirements set out in the Standard Questionnaire, available at www.nhssourcing.co.uk Minimum financial capacity includes a turnover of at least 1 times the contract value of 125 000 000 GBP and technical capacity of having facilities capable of delivering 1 000 elective orthopaedic joints procedures per annum, be CQC registered and hold an NHS provider licence. Further details of all minimum criteria are detailed within the standard questionnaire.
This opportunity is for a healthcare service, as described in regulations 74, 75 and 76, a light-touch regime approach is granted to this process, and therefore, the full regime of the regulations does not apply.
The Prior Information Notice (PIN) will be the only advertisement made for this opportunity. The exclusion criteria within the Standard Questionnaire (Appendix 1) included in this document must be met and satisfied before your expression of interest will be considered. Failure to meet the exclusion criteria will result in an automatic rejection from the process.
Following the receipt of successful expressions of interest to the process, bidders will then be invited to submit a tender. This two stage approach ensures minimum disruption to potential providers, to only invite those to tender who meet the minimum acceptable criteria to bid. This differs from that of a restricted procedure as the standard questionnaire will not be qualitatively scored, as a pre-qualification questionnaire would be.
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: In accordance with Regulation 86 (Notices of decisions to award a contract), Regulation 87 (Standstill Period) and Regulations 91 (Enforcement of duties through the Court) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.


Award value: 125000000