Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2019-04-12
Buyer: NHS Coastal West Sussex CCG
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85120000: Medical practice services | 85121000: Medical services | 85121100: General practitioner services
Estimated value: 16000000 GBP

Technical requirements: In accordance with the next steps of the forward view, integrated urgent care service specification and the long term plan, the out of hours home visiting service will treat and care for people with an urgent care need in their own home, protecting them from avoidable harm, reducing the number of ambulance call outs and improve patient satisfaction by supporting them at home to manage complex healthcare needs, including end of life care, thereby reducing the need for hospital admission where it’s clinically appropriate to do so.
This service will provide urgent home visits when GP surgeries are typically closed, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. weekdays, all day at weekends and bank holidays.
In accordance with the next steps of the forward view, integrated urgent care service specification and the long term plan, the out of hours home visiting service will treat and care for people with an urgent care need in their own home, protecting them from avoidable harm, reducing the number of ambulance call outs and improve patient satisfaction by supporting them at home to manage complex healthcare needs, including end of life care, thereby reducing the need for hospital admission where it’s clinically appropriate to do so.
This service will provide urgent home visits when GP surgeries are typically closed, from 6:30 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. weekdays, all day at weekends and bank holidays.
The anticipated contract duration is 3 years with a commissioner option to extend by up to a further 12 months. Service commencement will be 1.4.2020. The value stated represents 4 years i.e. should the option to extend be exercised.
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 a memorandum of 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 on 7.5.2019 in Crawley, West Sussex.
The deadline for submission of completed RFI's and registration to attend the bidder event is Midday on Tuesday 30.4.2019.
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Award value: 16000000