Published date: 29 June 2019

Last edited date: 29 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: 22 July 2019

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£3,719,665 to £7,439,330

Procurement reference

PRJ735

Published date

29 June 2019

Closing date

22 July 2019

Contract start date

4 November 2019

Contract end date

3 November 2024

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

Clinical Commissioning Groups are required to ensure provision of essential medical services to all people normally resident within their CCGs geographical area. This includes people who have been removed from their mainstream GP practice list as a result violent of behaviour or behaviour which led to the practice staff fearing for their safety. Care for this group of patients is provided under the Special Allocation Scheme (SAS) (also known as the Violent Patient Scheme). SAS Services have historically been provided on an individual CCG basis with consequent significant variation in service specification and provision In order to help address this variation, NHS England included guidance on the commissioning of a robust SAS in its November 2017 Primary Medical Care Policy and Guidance Manual (PGM). The guidance includes a detailed draft specimen specification. The detailed nature of the new national guidance would seem to lend itself to supra-CCG arrangements i.e. to commission services at STP level and this has now been agreed across the 3 London STPs involved in this procurement. The Authority is therefore seeking to appoint a single provider of SAS services in each of the NCL, NEL and SEL STP areas. The current contracts for the provision of SAS in the 3 STP areas are due to expire on 3rd November 2019.

More information

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Click on this link to access the online tender portal. You must register an account, register an interest in the project and then navigate to the ITT area to access the procurement documents and online questionnaires for completion and submission: : https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=4a38bce6-d599-e911-80f8-005056b64545&p=ad706dc1-5684-e511-80f3-000c29c9ba21

About the buyer

Contact name

Natalie Polyblank

Address

75-77 Worship Street
LONDON
EC2A2DU
England

Telephone

07748 622849

Email

natalie.polyblank1@nhs.net