Provision of Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) - Leicester City CCG

NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (Arden & GEM CSU) on behalf of Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), are seeking suitably qualified and experienced providers to bid to deliver Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) agreements in Leicester City, for the following lots;

Co-Commissioning delegated responsibility sees Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (LC CCG) seeking suitability qualified organisations to provide Alternative Provider Medical Services (General Medical Practice) in Leicester City. The procurement will be lotted, being one lot per service as listed above, and bidders can bid for whichever or however many lots they are qualified to do so.

LC CCG is keen to concentrate its efforts on targeting its resources at the most deprived and unhealthy groups in terms of both equity of access to services and community development

Extended opening hours, improved access, improved patient experience and patient outcomes are all focal points of the procurement of healthcare services

Other key objectives include;

The provider must design services around the needs of patients and carers, ensuring they are offered more choice and greater say in their treatment. The provider must have processes in place to evaluate and continually improve on patient satisfaction.

Based on feedback from the patient consultation, LC CCG is looking to increase core opening hours and appointment access to the registered population to include some evening and/or weekend working.

The services will need to be mobilised for and commence on 01st October 2016. Subject to Efficiency Control Committee (ECC) approval, the contracts' end dates will be 30th September 2026, with the option to extend (subject to performance and commissioner decision). Should the ECC, of NHS England, not approve the length proposed of these contracts the relevant parties shall be notified as soon as possible.

This opportunity will be open to the entire market. Bids will be accepted, in line with the published evaluation criteria, from current providers and new entrants. It should be noted that these contracts will be separate to any current agreements / contracts you have with NHS England or Leicester City CCG.

Please ensure you download and read all the documentation published with the tender and regularly check the messages facility and documentation area in case of publish of further information.

Additional information: The Invitation to Tender (ITT) documentation was made available on 22nd January 2016 and should be completed and all bids submitted by the closing date of 5pm on 7th March 2016.

All submissions will be evaluated using the scoring criteria which is contained within the ITT -Document 1.

Clarifications may be asked during the procurement process, the deadline for clarification questions is 5pm on 29th February 2016.

All correspondence relating to this procurement throughout all stages of the process must be managed through the Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (Arden and GEM CSU) eTendering Procurement Portal bravosolutions only.

Providers wishing to submit an ITT to deliver this service can do so by logging onto Arden and GEM CSUs procurement portal (Bravo) as soon as possible at: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html

To register on the portal:

»From the portal Home Page, click the ‘Click Here to Register’ link

»Accept the terms & conditions for using the portal

»Complete your organisation & personal details

»Choose a memorable username and submit

»You will shortly be sent an email with your unique password, please treat this securely (if you lose it there is a ‘Forgot my Password’ link on the portal homepage)

To Access the portal and ITT:

»Login with your unique username & password

»From the suppliers reserved area click ‘ITTs Open to All Suppliers’ –this is a repository of all ITT’s open to any registered supplier.

»Browse the ITTs (there may be more than one page) and select by name; “Provision of Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) - Leicester City CCG”, or by ITT code; “itt_388” by clicking on it

»Note the Details buttons on the left for Navigation and the Actions below

»Click the ‘Express Interest’ action –this will move the ITT from the ITTs Open to All Suppliers area to your ‘My ITTs’ area –this is a reserved area for ITTs that you have either been invited to or expressed interest in.

The services to which this notice relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3, Part 10 of the Public Services Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) ("the Regulations"). Neither the publication of this notice nor the employment of any particular terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authorities intend to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to the procurement of Part B services.