Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-09-15
Buyer: NHS England
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85121200: Specialist medical services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85148000

Technical requirements: Management and Development Function for the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP).
NHS England shall shortly be procuring the contract for the Management and Development of the National Clinical Audit and Patient Outcomes Programme (NCAPOP). The contract includes delivering aspects of the management function including: commissioning, developing, quality assurance and account management of up to 40 audits per annum and national outcome reviews under the NCAPOP.
The estimated value of this contract will be between 1 000 000 GBP and 1 300 000 GBP per annum excluding VAT.
The purpose of this PIN is to inform and ready the market in advance of the Contract Notice being issued. This PIN is also to inform the market that NHS England intends to hold an engagement event with potential providers on Wednesday 27.9.2017.
The NCAPOP aims to improve patient outcomes by stimulating quality improvement and supporting policy development and operational commissioning through the use of high quality data about the quality of care.
NHS England currently contracts with the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) to lead, commission, develop and manage NCAPOP from a number of audit providers (subcontractors / audit providers). Most of NCAPOP involves healthcare in England and Wales and, to a lesser extent, other devolved nations. The existing NHS England contract with HQIP ceases on the 31.3.2018. The new contract to manage NCAPOP will commence from 1st April 2018 and be let for a period of three years with the option to extend for an additional two years.
Besides NHS England, NCAPOP outputs are used by a number of other organisations including: NHS providers of healthcare, NHS Improvement, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Public Health England, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and third sector organisations.
NHS England relies on NCAPOP to support delivery of several corporate priorities and statutory duties, including:
— NHS 5 Year Forward View ambitions on quality — To reduce variations in where patients receive care, we will measure and publish meaningful and comparable measurements for all major pathways of care by 2020. Much of the data to support this work will be drawn from NCAPOP;
— The National Information Board's strategic aims include the intention to link clinical audit data to other national data sets to enable more sophisticated analyses and insights and a broader understanding of outcomes than is currently available;
— Monitoring and stimulating quality improvement in care associated with NHS England's clinical corporate priorities, for example: audits about the quality of care in adult and child diabetes, cancer, maternity and mental health services;
— Encouraging the wide use of robust data for quality improvement of care, offering patient choice, promoting patient safety, supporting revalidation and service accreditation, commissioning, service redesign, and research;
— Supporting commissioners to identify and tackle variation through RightCare, for example the diabetes audit;
— Supporting payment mechanisms, for example best practice tariff in the national hip fracture database, stroke and cardiac audits, or evidencing national CQUIN compliance, for example the psychosis audit;
— Supporting the Government's transparency initiative through the publication of quality measures at the level of individual consultant and hospital/unit level on NHS Choices;