Published date: 9 December 2016

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 January 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

MK45 4HR

Value of contract

£1,681,942

Procurement reference

ACE-0269-2016-Beds

Published date

9 December 2016

Closing date

13 January 2017

Contract start date

27 February 2017

Contract end date

26 February 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

NHS Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG) requires qualified organisations to provide the following service: Diagnostics Non-obstetric Ultrasound Service (NOUS).

The services will be commissioned using the Any Qualified Provider (AQP) process. In securing services under the AQP process, assurance of competence, quality and safety standards will be required. Any provider will be eligible to join the qualified provider list subject to demonstrating competency against specified criteria.

Qualified providers will be expected to deliver the service under the 2016/17 NHS Standard Contract. As a qualified provider there are no levels of guaranteed activity. Payment is made based on actual provision.

The commissioner for this service is NHS Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group. The commissioner is supported in this project by ATTAIN HEALTH MANAGEMENT SERVICES LTD , who will be managing this procurement.

Attain acting on behalf of NHS Bedfordshire CCG, the Commissioning Organisation, intends to use an e Tendering system in this procurement exercise. The e-Tendering system and all procurement documents relating to this opportunity can be accessed via:

https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/

Please note that the submission deadline for responses is Friday 13th January 2017 at 12:00hrs

More information

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All procurement documents relating to this opportunity are available at link: https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html

A User Guide for registering on the Bravo e-Tendering Portal is attached.

Please note that the submission deadline is Friday 13th January 2017 at 12:00hrs

About the buyer

Contact name

Esther Pettigrew

Address

Capability House
Silsoe
Bedford
MK45 4HR
England

Email

esther.pettigrew@attain.co.uk

Website

https://www.bedfordshireccg.nhs.uk