Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-11-03
Buyer: Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 892500 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-12-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: HQIP is seeking bidders to deliver, promote and develop the National Prostate Cancer Audit, a comparative national clinical audit of the organisation, processes and outcomes of NHS-funded care for men diagnosed with prostate cancer in England and Wales.
— Element 1: An ongoing continuous prospective audit of all eligible patients from their first presentation through diagnosis, treatment / palliation, and outcome from that primary event.
— Element 3: A national collection in contract year 3 of patient reported outcome and experience measures (PROMs / PREMs). N.B: confirmation of the commissioning of this element is dependent on the achievement of contract objectives 1 — 6 during years 1 and 2. This element may be delayed or cancelled if these objectives are not met.
Feasibility work in relation to Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing, which has been pending for several years, is excluded from years 1-3 of this contract, but may be revisited if a future extension to cover year 4/5 is invited.
This will be a three year contract with the option to extend for a further two years subject to continued funding and satisfactory review. The contract is let initially to be delivered solely for England and Wales, however, there may be potential in the future to vary the contract to extend coverage to Scotland and / or Northern Ireland and / or other participants, and / or to include the acquisition from and reporting of data from primary care, but none of these form part of the commissioned scope at this point in time.
The contract is for an initial period of 3 years at a maximum total budget of  892 500 GBP excluding VAT and bids exceeding this limit may be rejected.
The contract is let initially to be delivered solely for England and Wales. However, there is potential to extend the contract for a possible additional 2 years, subject to the availability of funding and an assessment by HQIP on the quality of the delivery of the programme. The Authority, in the future, may also offer the potential to vary the contract to additionally cover Scotland and / or Northern Ireland and / or other participants; and / or to include the acquisition from and reporting of data from primary care, however there is no commitment by the Authority at this stage to do so. The potential value of the contract, should all these options be offered and taken up, would be circa a total of  5 000 000 GBP over the maximum 5 years contract duration.
Bidders should submit their Schedule of Offer based on providing the audit for the initial 3 years for England and Wales only.
Any subsequent contract award may include a performance related pay element linked to the achievement of key contract deliverables which will be mutually agreed with the successful Bidder.
HQIP uses an e-procurement system. Please follow the link to view the specification and formally express your interest in this opportunity. Potential providers must complete the supplier registration form on the e-procurement system before they can access the Invitation to Tender (ITT).

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