Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2020-12-02
Buyer: Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85120000: Medical practice services | 85121000: Medical services
Estimated value: 3205053 GBP
Submission deadline: 2021-01-06

Technical requirements: North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) are working for, and on behalf of, NHS Bury Clinical Commissioning Group who wish to commission healthcare services for Garden City Medical Practice,within the locality of the North Neighbourhood of Bury.
The practice is currently part of the Bury Primary Care Network and has a registered list size of approximately 4 705 patients (as at 1 April 2020).
The services will be delivered from Garden City Medical Centre, 1A Garden City, Holcomb Brook, Bury, BL0 9TN.
North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is working for and on behalf of Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (the Contracting Authority) and under co-commissioning NHS Bury Clinical Commissioning Group (the Commissioner), who are conducting a Request for Information (RFI) exercise in order to gain a better understanding of the capacity and appetite of the market to provide an alternative provider medical service (APMS) to be delivered at Garden City Practice.
The current service has circa 4 700 patients and a Global Sum contract value per annum of circa GBP 436 104 which is based on list size per patient and is exclusive of, but not limited to, the exclusion of QOF, LES, DES and 6 % caretaking fee, rent reimbursement, voluntary levy deduction.
It is important to note that this PIN/RFI is not a call for competition and as such potential providers will need to express an interest in any future tender opportunity once a contract notice is published in Official Journal European Union (OJEU) and on contracts finder.
It should be noted that this PIN/RFI invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this RFI exercise only, and it is not a pre-qualification questionnaire, and is not part of any pre-qualification or selection process. This PIN/RFI is intended as an awareness, communication, and information gathering exercise. An expression of interest is no indication of a commitment to participate in the RFI process nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who express an interest in the RFI exercise.
NECS is utilising an electronic tendering portal (In-Tend) to manage this RFI and as such interested individuals and organisations will need to register on the portal to access and return the RFI documentation.
Should you have any queries, or are having problems registering on the portal, you should contact the eTendering provider by Email: support@in-tend.com or by phone 0844 2728810 Website: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu/aspx/Home
Potential providers are to note that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (as amended) may apply to a future procurement including the New Fair Deal non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are compulsorily transferred from the public sector to independent providers delivering public services.
The RFI documentation will be accessible from 12.00 noon on 14 September 2020 and completed RFI responses must be returned by 12.00 noon 28 September 2020.
(a) How what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social, and environmental well-being of the area where they exercise their functions;
(b) How, in conducting the process of procurement, they might act with a view to securing that improvement.
Accordingly, the subject matter of the contract has been scoped to take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authority relating to ‘economic, social, and environmental well-being’. The basic principles of the Open Procedure will be followed for this procurement to test the capacity, capability, and technical competence of bidders in accordance with The Light-Touch Rules Regime, Regulations 74 to 77 of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) (for Health, Social, Education, and certain other Service Contracts).
Public contracts for Health, Social, Education, and certain other Service Contracts listed in Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) (PCR 2015) shall be awarded in accordance with Chapter 3 Section 7 Regulation 74 to 77 of PCR 2015.


Award value: 3205053