Published date: 4 September 2018

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 25 October 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

North East, North West, Yorkshire and the Humber, East Midlands, West Midlands, East of England, London, South East, South West

Value of contract

£14,240,000

Procurement reference

NHS England Specialised Commissioning

Published date

4 September 2018

Approach to market date

25 October 2018

Contract start date

1 April 2019

Contract end date

31 March 2023

Procedure type

Other: Prior Information Notice and Soft Market Testing

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

NHS England Specialised Commissioning is planning to commission centres to provide Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation for Chronic Pancreatitis (Adults) and is inviting all suitably qualified providers to complete a Soft Market Testing Questionnaire.

Interested parties should respond to this notice as the responses to the questionnaire will be used to support the identification of the future commissioning route for the new service.

Interested organisations are invited to join a market engagement event delivered via a WebEx session on 25 Sept 2018, 10.30am-11.30pm. The purpose of the WebEx session is to tell you more about the service requirements and enable you to raise questions related to the services.

To complete the soft market testing questionnaire and access any supporting documents please:
(a) Register on https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. The Bravo project reference number is project_1098 Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation for Chronic Pancreatitis (AdultS).
(b) Complete and submit the soft market testing questionnaire pqq_530 by no later than 4 October 2018 at 5pm.
(c) Register for the WebEx session by sending a message via Bravo Messaging (pqq_530 on https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk)
1) In the message title please indicate: WebEx for Total Pancreatectomy with Islet Autotransplantation for Chronic Pancreatitis (Adults). In the body of the message please:
- provide full name of your organisation and name and job title of the attendees;
- indicate the region you are interested in (North; South, London or Midlands and East);
More information about the service can be found on https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/clinical-commissioning-policy-total-pancreatectomy-with-islet-auto-transplant-for-chronic-pancreatitis-adults. This document contains the service requirement.

The policy above suggests that up to 4 service centres (one per region) may be allocated nationally. Thus, the proposal put forward with this PIN consists of 4 centres as potential lotting model for the service. The soft market questionnaire will allow interested organisations to propose an alternative approach (up to the limit of 4 allocated centres nationally in line with the policy) and provide reasons for their proposed model

Note that the value stated in section "2.Value Information" is the maximum value that may be agreed for the entire contract duration including the option to extend (assuming a total duration of 4 years). The value is indicative and is based on an analysis of provider costs to deliver the patient assessment, surgical management and on-going management of eligible patients.

For more information about this exercise and the lots (centres) proposed please refer to the attachment in section "6. Attachments" of this notice or to the link: https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:384782-2018:TEXT:EN:HTML.

More information

Spend profile

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Financial year Budget
2018/2019 £14,240,000

Attachments

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For any support in registering or submitting your questionnaire please contact the eTendering Help-desk at 0800-011-2470 or help@bravosolution.co.uk.

Note: Please note that this PIN is not a call for competition. This PIN exercise may not lead to a formal procurement process. In the event of any future procurement opportunity this will be conducted under the Light Touch Regime (Schedule 3 - services) in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (PCR 2015).

Please also note that this is not a PQQ, we are using this functionality within the Arden and GEM Bravo procurement portal to communicate with interested parties.

Where to find further information regarding future procurement opportunities?

Any procurement relating to this PIN notice will be advertised on Contracts Finder(https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Search) and administered/conducted via the Arden & GEM CSU's e-Tendering portal known as Bravo solutions (https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk). Full details regarding this procurement opportunity will be available there.

About the buyer

Contact name

Neli Garbuzanova

Address

10 Nottingham Road
Derby
DE1 3QT
England

Email

Neli.Garbuzanova@nhs.net