Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-04-18
Buyer: NHS Brighton and Hove CCG
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 33185000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 40000000 GBP

Technical requirements: The 7 Sussex CCGs are jointly re-procuring community audiology services, as part of wider plans to improve health and social care for the whole of Sussex.
The 7 Sussex CCGs are jointly re-procuring community audiology services, as part of wider plans to improve health and social care for the whole of Sussex. This approach will enable CCGs to commission services in a more efficient and effective manner across a larger area.
The 7 CCG’s are Brighton and Hove CCG, High Weald Lewes Havens CCG, Coastal West Sussex CCG, Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG, Crawley CCG, Eastbourne, Hailsham and Seaford CCG, and Hastings and Rother CCG.
All 7 CCGs will re-procure the existing adult hearing aids service for age related hearing loss, currently offered to patients aged 55 or older.
2 CCG’s, Crawley CCG and Horsham and Mid Sussex CCG, will in addition re-procure the existing community audiology services available to patients under the age of 55 the anticipated contract duration is 5 years.
The annual value across all of the CCGs is approximately 8 000 000 GBP (40 000 000 GBP for a whole life cost of 5 years)
This is a market engagement process designed to help the commissioner form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a tender exercise. It is intended as an awareness and communication exercise offering an opportunity for potential providers to understand commissioning intensions. A further tender advertisement will be issued at the appropriate time where required.
A request for Information document is available and contains further information. Providers are asked to follow the instructions to access the document which also contains an invitation and registration form for bidder representatives to attend an engagement event (the date of which will be provided in due course).
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Award value: 40000000