North Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Minor Hand Surgery Service

Contract summary

Industry

• Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

North Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Minor Hand Surgery Service

Published date

7 September 2017

Approach to market date

15 September 2017

Contract start date

1 April 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

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Description

NHS North Staffordshire and NHS Stoke on Trent CCGs serve a registered population of approximately
502,000 people. The CCGs are considering the possible procurement of an Adult Community Minor Hand
Surgery Service for the population of Northern Staffordshire, using a single provider route. The community
based service shall provide high quality minor hand surgical procedures for Carpal Tunnel Decompression and
Trigger Finger Release as part of the orthopaedic/musculoskeletal pathway.
The overarching aims of the service are to provide:
• A high quality, cost effective and patient centred surgical procedures for people with Carpal Tunnel and
Trigger Finger.
• Timely access to reduce waiting times and achievement of the 18 week referral to treatment target.
• Community based provision, offering an alternative to secondary care
• Clinically effective treatments that reduce the demand on secondary care (acute) services and reduce the
need for more costly interventions
Further details, to include contract duration will be made available at a later date to those organisations who
have registered their interest in this service.
Organisations wishing to express an interest and provide additional procurement-specific information should
provide the following details by email to olena.florek@nhs.net or Elizabeth.johnson1@nhs.net by Friday 15th September 2017. The following information must be stated in the email: organization name and address, contact
name, telephone number,
Organisations should also confirm their registration on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU Bravo Portal
https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. If not registered, organisations should follow the link and register on the portal.

Further details will be made available
via documentation and information released during the course of the tender process. Submission of
expression
of interest and procurement specific information. This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and
Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk
Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest & provide additional
procurement-specific information (by registering on the Bravo portal): i) Candidates should register on the
portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge). If your
organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register. You must submit your reply on the website by the deadline stated. For technical support in submitting your
expression of interest contact the
BravoSolution Help-desk on +44 8003684850 or E-mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk

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More information

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice

Financial year	Budget
2018/2019	£0

Additional text

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 MOI and PQQ. 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. Right to Cancel: 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. Transparency: 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 will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act. If
and
when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet. Midlands
and Lancashire CSU are conducting this procurement exercise for another NHS
body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services.
The contract conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender.

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About the buyer

Address

Midlands & Lancashire CSU, Heron House, 120 Grove Road
Fenton
Stoke on Trent
ST7 1SQ
England

Email

elizabeth.johnson1@nhs.net