Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-10-24
Buyer: NHS Coastal West Sussex Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 12500000 GBP

Technical requirements: — Commissioners within the 7 Sussex CCGs (NHS Brighton and Hove CCG, NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG, NHS Crawley CCG, NHS Eastbourne Hailsham and Seaford CCG, NHS Hastings and Rother CCG, NHS High Weald Lewes Havens CCG, and NHS Horsham and Mid-Sussex CCG) are considering how best to recommission an Non-obstetric ultrasound service (NOUS) service. The current service currently provides for circa 26 000 scans per annum.
Coverage: the service will need to be provided across the whole county of Sussex, with proportionate, reasonable coverage of rural areas such that rural populations are not disadvantaged.
Synchronicity: there will be an alignment of services, IT systems, processes, referrals and reporting forms across Sussex.
Quality and reporting requirements: we are redesigning quality and reporting requirements, to improve assurance, enable better triangulation of information, minimise processing and duplication of scans in Trusts. One of the more significant potential changes for providers will be a requirement to ensure all patient scans and reports are stored into the PACS system for easy access by GPs and Trusts.
The commissioners are currently considering the optimal contract duration for the service but envisage that this may be for a period of either 3 or 5 years, possibly with an option to extend.
The purpose of this RFI is to gauge market interest and gain feedback via the RFI response form for the provision of Non-obstetric ultrasound service (NOUS) services and provide the CCG with valuable information to help update and improve the current service specification.
Identify ways to remove the inequality of service provision across Sussex footprint, including alignment of service specifications where appropriate.
Improve quality of patient scans and reports; thus reducing duplication of scans by all providers. Ensure providers are linked to the (PACS) system to share timely images with secondary care easily remove unwarranted variation in service provision across Sussex
Reduce inappropriate and incomplete referrals from primary care address inefficiencies for both commissioners and providers arising from lack of monitoring and reporting use lessons learnt from recent audits to improve the service offered to patients.
This is a process designed to help the commissioners 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 at the appropriate time as/if required. You will not be disadvantaged in any subsequent tender process if you choose not to respond to this RFI but the commissioners will use the level of response received as part of the supporting evidence for any next steps taken. The commissioners wish to understand your views at this early stage, so you are encouraged to respond and complete the RFI form as fully as you can.
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Award value: 12500000