Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-11-22
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Region: Shropshire and Staffordshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000
Submission deadline: 2016-12-14
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Community Ophthalmology Service for Shropshire CCG and Telford & Wrekin CCG. The CCG is seeking to procure a Lead Provider, who is able to deliver a Community Ophthalmology Service to meet the health needs of the local population of Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin Clinical Commissioning Groups through a Community based delivery model and use of innovative service re-design.
The Commissioner wishes to receive responses to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) from suitably qualified and experienced Ophthalmology providers with the necessary capacity and capability (or a demonstrable ability to provide the necessary capacity and capability) to provide a Community Ophthalmology Service. The Service shall deliver a ‘one stop shop’ service, with diagnostic and clinical assessments being undertaken at the same appointment, to ensure timely access to specialist clinical expertise in a community setting. The Service Provider shall be expected to work with the Commissioner to develop the processes necessary for further ophthalmic conditions to be treated/managed in a Community Based Ophthalmology care setting throughout the duration of the contract.
— Deliver a ‘one-stop shop’ service with diagnostic and clinical assessments being undertaken at the same appointment.
— Improve access and reduce waiting times for ophthalmic services, with a flexible appointment system to meet the needs of Service Users and carers.
— Support and enable Service Users to manage their own conditions by providing a supportive and proactive approach to self-management and to signpost Service Users to services that can support them to self-manage.
— Ensure Certification of Vision impairment is completed and provision of support aids where required.
— Provide access to high quality, safe clinical care that gives timely advice, appropriate support, assessment, diagnostics and treatment for patients according to their individual need.
This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations (2015) as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (“Regulations”). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in the Invitation to Tender (ITT). As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement. The contracting authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The contracting authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the contracting authority reserves the right to change these. The contracting authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the contracting authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency shall be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) and the Environmental Information Regulations (2004). Further information relating to transparency can be found at:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-and-contracting-transparency-requirements-guidance”