Published date: 14 October 2021
This notice was replaced on 4 March 2022
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Awarded contract (published 22 September 2022)
Closed early engagement
Contract summary
Industry
Pulmonary specialists services - 85121232
Location of contract
North West
Procurement reference
L-21-12
Published date
14 October 2021
Closing date
5 November 2021
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
Yes
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
Yes
Description
The CCGs are looking to gain Expressions of Interest (EoIs) from providers who could be interested in delivering an Adult Integrated Respiratory Service to patients in the Fylde Coast CCG area.
Fylde Coast CCG is looking to redesign respiratory services locally and develop a truly integrated respiratory team that is capable of delivering "joined up care at the right time in the optimal setting" as set out in the NHS Long-Term plan. The ambition is that AIRS will incorporate a multidisciplinary approach that has a strong focus on care based in the community, with in-reach into the acute setting facilitating earlier discharge and supporting admission/readmission avoidance.
Fylde Coast CCG are seeking to commission an integrated Home Oxygen Service-Assessment and Review (HOS-AR) and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service that will form the foundation of AIRS and over the lifetime of the contract, working with the Fylde Coast Transformation Programme will develop into a fully integrated multi-disciplinary Adult Integrated Respiratory Service.
The HOS-AR service is designed to meet the needs of people who might benefit from home oxygen ensuring that home oxygen is appropriately prescribed to those people who clinically need it - often Adults with chronic respiratory disease. Home oxygen therapy is also used as treatment for some hypoxic patients with cardiac disease and some neurological disorders as well as palliative care. Pulmonary Rehabilitation is an exercise and education programme designed for people with lung disease who experience symptoms of breathlessness.
Pulmonary Rehabilitation is an exercise and education programme designed for people with lung disease who experience symptoms of breathlessness. Respiratory disease affects one in five people and is the third biggest cause of death in England. Incidence and mortality rates for those with respiratory disease are higher in disadvantaged groups and areas of social deprivation, where there is often higher smoking incidence, exposure to higher levels of air pollution, poor housing conditions and exposure to occupational hazards. All these factors drive to increase health inequalities in lung conditions in the most deprived communities.
Chronic respiratory diseases include (but is not limited to) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF, interstitial lung disease (ILD), bronchiectasis. Pulmonary Rehabilitation can also be beneficial to those diagnosed with Post Covid Syndrome.
Any interested organisation needs to visit https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/ to complete a short questionnaire regarding delivery of the service in the CCG area. This information will inform and assist the CCG in forming their Commissioning Intentions for these services. The deadline for providing this information is 12pm on Friday 5th November 2021.
More information
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The potential contract will be valued at approximately £569,000 per year; and the contract duration will be for 3 years with the potential to extend for a further 1 x 2-year period.
This procurement is for Social and other specific 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') http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made
Accordingly, the CA is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made
The CA is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.
The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents.
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 CA 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 is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services.
About the buyer
Contact name
Helen Graham
Address
c/o NHS Fylde Coast CCG, Blackpool Stadium
Seasiders Way
Blackpool
FY1 6JX
England
Telephone
01253 951200
Website
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