Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-08-23
Buyer: Arden and GEM CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services

Technical requirements: Expressions of Interest and Market Engagement for the Delivery of End to End and Lifelong Personalised Commissioning Service.
NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (NHS Arden and GEM CSU) on behalf of East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group (ELRCCG) acting as Coordinating Commissioner on behalf of the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) CCGs (including ELR, Leicester City [LC] and West Leicestershire [WL] CCGs) are inviting expressions of interest from suitably qualified providers to deliver a Personalised Commissioning Service.
LLR CCGs are looking to procure a combined end to end and lifelong Personalised Commissioning Service that determines eligibility for newly referred individuals or review of eligibility for CHC or continuing care; brokerage packages of care and assessment of the suitability of PoC for eligible individuals where this is not undertaken by the local authority and, where necessary, identifying and brokering care for those individuals who are nor CHC or CC eligible but whose needs are of a complex nature as to warrant a contribution from the NHS towards their care.
1. NHS Continuing Health Care (CHC) and NHS Funded Nursing Care (FNC) for Adults including Personal Health Budgets (PHB).
— National Guidance and regulations regarding the implementation of PHBs including the NHS Direct Payments Regulations (Amended 2013);
— Assessing patients who have been identified as likely to be eligible for CHC, or who are placed in a nursing home and are eligible for receipt of FNC;
— Reviewing those patients in receipt of fully funded CHC, including fast track funding, joint funded care packages, or FNC;
— Assessing children and young people who have been identified as likely to be eligible for continuing care including those in transition;
This does not commit the CCGs to carry out a procurement process. Current services will remain in place during this period in line with existing contracts and Service Level Agreements.
Bidders who have expressed an interest in this market testing exercise will have the opportunity to submit a separate response to the Contract Notice.
The Commissioners will be holding a bidder information event on the afternoon of Wednesday 31.8.2016 in Leicestershire (venue to be confirmed).
Places are strictly limited therefore reservations are limited to no more than 2 persons per organisation. You can express an interest in this market testing exercise and bidder information event by registering your organisation on the Bravo website: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk
The PQQ reference is PQQ_287. Once registered, please complete the questions in the qualification envelope which asks providers to give details about your organisation's name and postal address, email address, contact name and number. Your response should also include capability and previous experience of delivering this or a similar level of service. The deadline for submitting a response for this market testing exercise is 12:00 (noon) on Tuesday 30.8.2016.
The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction [DN delete if electronic auction not being used].
The services to which this notice relates falls within the Public Contract Regulations 2015 ('the Regulations').