Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2017-02-09
Buyer: NHS England
Country: UK
Region: Peterborough
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 85121000: Medical services | 85121100: General practitioner services
Estimated value: 770000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-02-15
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Primary Care GP Caretaking Services for Dogsthorpe Medical Centre and Burghley Road (branch site) in Peterborough 2017 — NHS England Midlands and East (East).
NHS England Midlands and East (East) is inviting expressions of interest, via a PIN as a Call for Competition, from all suitably qualified and experienced healthcare providers able to deliver Caretaking Primary Medical Services under an Alternative Provider of Medical Services (APMS) contract to caretake the Dogsthorpe Medical Centre and Burghley Road (branch site) sites from 16.3.2017 (ref RTE005P).
Further details can be found in the documentation uploaded to the portal. The Contract will be for an initial period of 7 months (from 16.3.2017 to 30.10.2017). The initial period is followed by an optional extension period of up to 6 further months to 31.3.2018.
The estimated contract value for the initial 7 month contract period is 414 559 GBP. The full, extended, 13 month contract is valued at approximately 769 894 GBP. Please see documentation available online for further details.
Expressions of interest must be submitted via email tendering portal by no later than 15.2.2017 at 12:00 (noon).
Further information on the proposed structure of the contract is provided in the documentation made available online to interested parties on the e-tendering portal. The documentation is available online on the Bravo website at the link below. If you are not already registered on the portal you will need to register using the ‘Register’ link on the web page provided.
This advertisement is a Prior Information notice (PIN) as a Call for Competition. This means that no further contract notice will be published for this contract. Providers interested in providing these services and who wish to be involved in any subsequent tender process related to this contract must respond to this advertisement by formally expressing an interest in this opportunity via the process described herein.
The Contract will be for an initial period of 7 months (from 16.3.2017 to 31.10.2017). The initial period is followed by an optional extension period of up to 6 further months to 31.3.2018.
The Authority will, if one or more expressions of interest are received in response to this PIN, adopt a single stage procurement process under the Light Touch Regime. Should only one expression of interest be received, the Authority reserves the right to vary the procurement procedure and proceed via a negotiated procedure where it is confirmed that the provider in question meets minimum selection criteria. Following the expression of interest stage and the subsequent ITT stage, the Contracting Authority intends to award one contract for the services in question.
Queries on the contract or the process must be sent via the portal messaging facility. NEL CSU is managing this Procurement in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the ‘Regulations’). The Service is being procured under ‘Schedule 3 — Social and Other Specific Services’. The Contracting Authority will be using an eTendering system in this procurement exercise.
Suppliers Instructions: How to Express Interest in this Tender. 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once). — Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register —Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue' — Enter your correct business and user details. — Note the user-name you chose and click ‘Save' when complete. — You will shortly receive an e-mail with your unique password (please keep this secure). 2. Express an Interest in the tender — Login to the portal with the username/password. — Click the ‘PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers' link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier). — Click on the relevant PQQ 352 to access the content. — Click the ‘Express Interest' button at the top of the page. — This will move the PQQ into your ‘My PQQs/ My ITTs' page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) — You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments' in the ‘PQQ/ ITT Details' box. 3. Responding to the tender — Click ‘My Response' under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details', you can choose to ‘Create Response' or to ‘Decline to Respond' (please give a reason if declining). — You can now use the ‘Messages' function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification. — Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the questionnaire. — There may be a mixture of on-line and off-line actions for you to perform (there is detailed on-line help available). You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response' button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the on-line help, or contact the eTendering help-desk. For the avoidance of doubt this is an Expression of Interest (EOI) stage in response to the PIN as a call for competition and the reference to 'PQQ' is a system label only. Following the EOI stage the formal ITT stage will be initiated.
Neither the publication of the this advertisement, an ITT nor the use of the term 'Open Procedure' nor any other indication (including any statement in this advert) shall be taken to mean that the Contracting Authority intends to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to services under the Light Touch regime.

Eligibility requirements: See procurement documentation.

Award value: 770000