MARKET RESEARCH COSSINGTON PARK SURGERY GENERAL PRACTICE SERVICE FOR NHS LEICESTER, LEICESTERSHIRE, AND RUTLAND INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (LLR ICB)

NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (ML CSU) on behalf of the Commissioners, NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board are looking to seek expressions of interest and feedback on the proposed service specification of: Cossington Park Surgery which will inform the development of the Commissioner's intentions to re-procure a General Practice service. The aim of the service is to deliver essential, additional, and enhanced primary care services to patients currently registered with the practice. It is proposed that the terms and conditions of the service, will reflect those contained in the Alternative Provider of Medical Services Contract (APMS). The main benefits and expected service outcomes are: Equity of access and quality of the service across Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland. Ensuring value for money and the most efficient use of available resources across the health and social care economy. Promoting and ensuring a positive patient experience. Aligning services to deliver the Long-Term Plan (LTP) and local place-based plans. NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB) are committed to delivering high quality patient health care to the Patients of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, in line with the Integrated Care System Partnership working, the NHS Long Term Plan and intelligence around the needs of the local population. Practice Information: Cossington Park Surgery provides general medical service under an APMS contract. The practice is located at: Cossington Park Surgery, Belgrave Health Centre, 52 Brandon Street, Leicester, LE4 6AW. The practice provides a range of primary medical care services to a combined list size of 8,159 (April 2022). The practice is part of Orion PCN. The table below shows the practice list size trend from 2017/18 to 2022/23 (Quarter 1).

The Service specification comments required and EOI. Please find the draft service specification: For your feedback. To register your Expression of Interest (EOI) and or provide feedback/complete the engagement questionnaire please visit the Midlands and Lancashire Bravo e-tendering portal: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. Bravo reference pqq 516. The closing date for EOIs and feedback is 13:00 hours on Friday 19th August 2022. A separate advert will be placed as an opportunity notice as and when the ICB go out to procurement for this service. Participation or not in this EOI exercise neither commits or precludes interested parties from bidding when the eventual procurement is launched. It should be noted that this is not a procurement exercise at this stage and participating organisations are responsible for their own costs.

Additional information:

To register on the Bravo portal. (If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register.)

1. Register on the portal webpage at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge).
2. Once registered, candidates must Express their Interest by:

3. Once you have expressed your interest, please access the My ITTs page, where you can view all the documentation (and download if required) and construct your reply in the bravo online questionnaire in the form of response configs/envelopes, as instructed. The deadline will be detailed in the tender documentation.

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All communications from Bidders (including their Bidder Members) during the period of the Procurement must be directed to MLCSU via the 'messaging' area within the ML CSU online procurement portal: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. Strictly no other forms of communication to MLCSU or the Commissioner will be accepted (including telephone calls, postal queries/submissions, faxes or email communications) during this period.

"Light Touch Regime" services

This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ("Regulations"). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.