Specialist Homeless Practice (inc Special Allocation Scheme)

The current APMS specialist homeless contract expires in March 2018. The service is being re-procured to facilitate transition to a new service model, effective from April 2018. Additionally, the Special Allocation Service (SAS) will be procured concurrently as part of this contract opportunity (albeit, with a later start date for the SAS contract of 3rd July 2018).

The new service will deliver to the homeless population segment, also working with other practices in order to best support patients. For example, the practice will work with 'mainstream' practices to develop additional capabilities across primary care in supporting homeless patients' health and care needs.

The practice will operate as a specialist primary care provider, expected to work at scale alongside other general practices as part of a Primary Care Home model- as set out in Central London CCG's Primary Care Strategy. In order to support this, the specification for the service has been redesigned to include responsibility to collaborate and to promote better integration of services, particularly other homeless health services. The specialist service is now being re-commissioned in an outcomes-based way with a focus on:

Central London CCG (the Authority) is therefore seeking to identify a suitable provider of Primary Care GP Services to undertake this contract in London for Great Chapel Street Practice based in the London Borough of Westminster.

This Tender process is being managed by North East London Commissioning Support Unit (NEL CSU) on behalf of NHS England (the "Contracting Authority") in connection with a competitive procurement exercise that is being conducted in accordance with a process based on the Open Procedure under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations" (as amended)). The services to which this Procurement relates fall within the "Light Touch Regime" (LTR) governing procurement of Health, Social, Education and Other service contracts. Neither the reference to "Open Procedure", "ITT", "PQQ / SQ", the use of the term "Tender process" nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the Contracting Authority intends to hold itself bound to any of the Regulations, save those applicable to LTR provisions.

The APMS Contract will be for a period of 5 years - the initial contract period will be from 1st April 2018 to 31st March 2023. The

Additional information: Bidders should respond to this ITT opportunity by completing the online questionnaire published on the Authority's e-procurement portal (the "Portal") - ProContract (hosted by Proactis). All clarification requests and correspondence pertaining to this ITT opportunity must be directed through the Portal.

Bidders are required to register on the Portal prior to accessing the ITT documentation. Guidance on the registration process is available via the link provided in the links section below.

The deadline for tenders to be received is 24th November 2017 at 10:00 am.

A timetable for the procurement, and supplementary information relating to the opportunity is also available on the Portal.

Bidders are also to note that information relating to this procurement is provided in good faith, and may be subject to amendment by the Authority.