Published date: 30 January 2020

Last edited date: 31 January 2020

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 13 February 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

North West

Value of contract

£1 to £33,333,000

Procurement reference

20200130173156-39

Published date

30 January 2020

Closing date

13 February 2020

Contract start date

1 October 2020

Contract end date

30 September 2025

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Other: Other

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

This notice is placed in order to facilitate early engagement with potential Providers, and relates only to a pre-procurement Market Engagement Event for an Adult Hearing Service on behalf of the following NHS Greater Manchester Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs): Bury, Heywood Middleton and Rochdale, Manchester, Oldham, Salford, Stockport, Tameside & Glossop and Trafford. The procurement will be an Any Qualified Provider (AQP) process. The CCGs are developing its commissioning approach for the award of a renewed AQP contract(s) for an Adult Hearing Service for the population of their CCG and intend to commence a procurement process to award a new contract(s) to provide the Service from 1st October 2020 for a period of 3 years, with the option to extend for a further 2 at the CCGs discretion. It should be noted that under the AQP model, there will be no guarantees of volume or payment in the contract(s) awarded. Whilst the contract(s) will have a £0 value budget, estimated costs associated with this service procurement, based on 5 years (including an option to extend for 2 years) is £33.3m. The aim of the service is to provide a comprehensive service for adults experiencing hearing and communication difficulties who feel they might benefit from hearing assessments and rehabilitation including the option of trying hearing aids with aftercare and support, in line with the National Commissioning Framework, other national guidance and local requirements. The vision for people with hearing problems is for them to receive high quality, efficient services delivered closer to home, or a more convenient location within accessible transport routes, with short waiting times and high responsiveness to the needs of local communities, free at the point of access. Key principles of an Integrated Hearing Service, within which the Adult Hearing Service operates, are as follows: • Improve public health and occupational health focus on hearing loss; • Reduce prevalence of avoidable permanent hearing loss;
• Encourage early identification, diagnosis and management of hearing loss through improved service user and professional education; • Provide person-centred care, and respond to information and psychosocial needs, including for the effect on partners (or service user's chosen support) of living with poor hearing; • Support communication needs by providing timely signposting to lip reading classes and assistive technologies and other rehabilitation services; • Promote inclusion and participation of people who are deaf or hard of hearing; • Compliance with clinical guidance and good practice; and • Improve the service through research and development and the adoption of new evidence based technologies and practices. More detail on the proposed Service and model can be found in the draft Service Specification.

More information

Additional text

For further information on the Market Engagement Event and how to register your interest, please see the full advert and draft Service Specification located on the EU-Supply Portal, tender reference 38752, using the following link https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/PublicPurchase/31845/0/0?returnUrl=ctm/Supplier/PublicTenders&b=UK

About the buyer

Contact name

John Pickford

Address

on behalf of Bury, Heywood Middleton and Rochdale, Manchester, Oldham, Salford, Stockport, Tameside & Glossop and Trafford NHS CCGs
Salford
M6 5FW
England

Email

john.pickford1@nhs.net