Published date: 18 June 2019

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: 17 July 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

  • Health services - 85100000

  • Services provided by medical personnel - 85141000

    • Services provided by nurses - 85141200

Location of contract

West Midlands

Value of contract

£585,000

Procurement reference

tender_209809/774957

Published date

18 June 2019

Closing date

17 July 2019

Contract start date

1 October 2019

Contract end date

30 September 2020

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (above threshold)

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

This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

NHS Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group wish to invite prospective providers to express their interest
for the provison of Community Based Admission Avoidance Services.

This Invitation to Tender provides information pertaining to the procurement for Community Based Admission Avoidance Services. The purpose of this procurement is to secure a Service Provider to deliver Community Based Admission Avoidance Services to the geographic locality of Shrewsbury.

This is a 12 month pilot contract, which is part of a wider piece of phased work and a step towards establishing the concept of Care Closer to Home within Shropshire.

The locally defined outcomes of the service are:
- Avoidance of unnecessary hospital admissions;
- Patients to have a positive experience of care.

The overarching aims of intermediate care and this service are to:

- Prevent avoidable hospital admissions and attendances through the provision of community-based care
pathways allowing patients to be seamlessly step up or down levels of care/support.

- Enable adults (aged 18+) to improve, maintain or manage changes in levels of independence, health and
wellbeing, through a process of care, re-ablement or recuperation.

- A multi-disciplinary decision-making approach providing a person- centred service collaborated care
between primary care, adult social care and voluntary sector.

- Deliver services in partnership with health and social care, forming multidisciplinary integrated teams;
including support staff, therapists, social workers, mental health, medical practitioners and nurses and the
falls service.

- Deliver timely, cost effective, efficient services that meet an individual's needs; whether the lower to
moderate level of preventative care and support, or the higher-level rapid response type support to
individuals who are tipping into crisis.

The successful Provider will be required to sign the NHS Standard Contract for the service and accept all terms and conditions.

More information

Links

Additional text

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.

The contract conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender. Further details will be made available
via documentation and information released during the course of the tender process.

This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at
https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk
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.
ii) Once registered, candidates must submit your reply on the website and by email 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.

Light Touch Regime' services: 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.

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.

About the buyer

Contact name

Hayley Smith

Address

William Farr House, Mytton Oak Road
Shrewsbury
SY3 8XL
England

Email

h.smith27@nhs.net