Published date: 12 November 2015
Withdrawn early engagement
Contract summary
Industry
Health services - 85100000
Location of contract
North East
Procurement reference
NECS101
Published date
12 November 2015
Closing date
23 February 2018
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) on behalf of several Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) across the North East and Cumbria are inviting Expressions of Interest (EOIs) from potential provider organisations in respect of a Regional Home Oxygen - Assessment and Review Service.
The aim of the service is to offer the provision of a high quality evidence based assessment, management, education and support service for adult patients who require long term oxygen therapy within a community setting, implementing appropriate systems to avoid unnecessary expenditure and hospital admission in accordance with the following objectives which will support the CCG's strategic plans:
• To improve the quality of life for people requiring oxygen therapy;
• To educate patients and their carers on the effective use and management of oxygen therapy;
• To ensure all patients with oxygen saturation (SaO2) of 92% or less receive a formal assessment for Long-Term Oxygen Therapy;
• To ensure all assessments and reviews are undertaken in accordance with the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Guidelines;
• Build effective working relations with the oxygen supply company;
• To work collaboratively with primary care, community and secondary care respiratory services;
• To carry out ambulatory oxygen assessments and the prescribing of oxygen;
• To reduce the number of inappropriate oxygen prescriptions;
• To improve service consistency, delivery and access for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in a cost effective manner;
• To avoid unnecessary hospital admissions through the provision of a Home Oxygen Assessment and Review Service in a timely manner; and
• To demonstrate some initial savings through identification of inappropriate use oxygen use.
North of England Commissioning Support Service (NECS) is a commissioning support service hosted by NHS England and will manage the recording of Expressions of Interest for an on behalf of the CCGs (the contracting authorities).
Organisations who are interested in expressing an interest at this stage are kindly requested to indicate which geographical area(s) their organisation would potentially be interested in delivering a service for, should a future tender exercise arise. The geographical areas are:
• Cumbria
• South of Tyne & Wear
• County Durham
• South Tees
Interested organisations are therefore kindly requested to confirm the geographical area(s) via the messaging facility within the NECS electronic tendering portal.
More information
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HOW TO EXPRESS AN INTEREST -
NECS is utilising an electronic tendering portal to gather expressions of interest therefore all communications will be conducted via the In-Tend portal, https://in-tendhost.co.uk/necs. It is free to register on the portal, which can be accessed at any time. A dedicated helpdesk is available should potential providers have any queries and can be contacted on 0844 2728810 (Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm) or via emailing support@in-tend.co.uk.
To express an interest, once registered on the portal please select "Forthcoming Tenders" from the "Tenders" tab, and then scroll down the page until you locate the listing marked "Prior Information Notice - Regional Home Oxygen Assessment & Review Service (North of England CCGs)". Please click the button marked 'view details' for this particular listing. You will be able to express your interest in this tender opportunity by selecting the button marked 'express interest'.
Please note that this facility allows the provider to express an interest only at this stage - it is NOT a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) exercise and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process. An Expression of Interest is no indication of a commitment to participate in any potential future tender process nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those organisations who do submit an Expression of Interest.
About the buyer
Contact name
Michael Wise
Address
North of England Commissioning Support
Teesdale House, Westpoint Road
Thornably, Stockton-on-Tees
TS17 6BL
England
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