Published date: 15 January 2018

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: 19 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£224,000

Procurement reference

PR002176

Published date

15 January 2018

Closing date

19 February 2018

Contract start date

2 July 2018

Contract end date

1 July 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure (below threshold)

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

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

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (OCCG) is seeking expressions of interest for a specialised palliative care planned night nursing service within Oxfordshire.

The night nursing service is to provide high quality specialist palliative nursing care to adults who are in the last 12 months of life, inclusive of all types of life-limiting illness. The night-nursing support will be delivered to patients in their usual place of residence between the hours of 22:00-06:30 365 days per year. The aims of the service are to support end of life patients with symptom control and appropriate management of their illness and its phase (including supporting people to die at home if they wish), and to provide support and respite for unpaid care givers of patients at the end of life.

The service will work in close co-ordination with the Oxfordshire Continuing Healthcare Team (CHCT) and other healthcare professionals to ensure appropriate assessment of priority for care for patients and effective allocation of night-nursing resource within the requested timeframe of delivery.

The contract will be for 1 year with the option to extend for a further 1 year and is expected to commence on the 1st July 2018.

The contract will have a total contract value of £224,000 per annum and is intended to operate on activity based payments within a variable capped contract.

Expressions of interest, including completed ITT responses must be received by 12 noon on the 19th February 2018.

Further information regarding this requirement, including a copy of the Invitation to Tender (ITT) can be found on our e-procurement portal:

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home) in the ITT Bidder Guidance v1 0 document.

About the buyer

Contact name

Donna Harrington

Address

Jubilee House, 5510 John Smith Drive
Oxford Business Park (South)
Oxford
OX4 2LH
England

Email

donnaharrington@nhs.net