Published date: 21 August 2017

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Medical practice and related services - 85120000

Location of contract

East Midlands

Value of contract

£3,250,000

Procurement reference

LLR-17-20

Published date

21 August 2017

Approach to market date

1 April 2018

Contract start date

1 November 2018

Contract end date

31 October 2023

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No

Description

PRIOR INFORMATION NOTICE

This is a prior information notice with future call for competition and its purpose is to make the market aware of the CCGs' commissioning intentions.

NHS Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) will be commissioning a new APMS contract for the Community Health Centre located at Melbourne Road, Leicester in early 2018.

The aim of all the services is to deliver essential, additional and enhanced services to registered patients of each practice.

It is proposed that the terms and conditions of all the services, including tariff arrangements, will reflect those contained in General Medical Services (GMS) contracts.

The contract lengths will be 5 years with an option to extend for a further 5 years subject to satisfactory review.

The service will be commissioned via an open procurement process advertised to all providers which is proportionate to the value and complexity of the service and contract. (the contract value is indicative, the actual value will be confirmed later on).

We recommend any current providers of similar services, providers who may be interested in providing this service in the future, or other stakeholders who may have an interest in providing this service to register on Contracts Finder and on the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo for alerts, please see links below.
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk
https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk
(to register on the ML CSU Bravo portal please see instructions on the following page)


NOTES

"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 and ITT. 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.


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Spend profile

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Financial year Budget
2017/2018 £650,000

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About the buyer

Address

St. Johns House, 30 East Street
Leicester
LE1 6NB
England

Email

paulo.cabral@nhs.net