Community Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is working for, and on behalf of, NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group to conduct market engagement to obtain input and feedback as part of the development of a potential service model for the provision of a Community Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service.

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is utilising an electronic tendering tool (In-Tend) to manage this process.

It is free to register on In-Tend, which can be accessed at any time of day providing you have a working internet connection.

To register an interest in responding to this market engagement exercise and obtain a copy of the Request for Information documentation please navigate to the In-Tend portal:

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu/aspx/Home

RFI documentation will be available on the In-Tend Portal from Wednesday 23 October 2019 and the deadline for RFI responses is 12 noon on Wednesday 20 November 2019.

Following review of the RFI responses, should the commissioner feel that further clarity or information is required then this will be requested via the eTendering portal.

Should bidders have any queries, or are having problems registering; they should contact the In-Tend helpdesk via:

support@in-tend.com or on 0845 557 8079 / +44 (0) 114 407 0065

The helpdesk is open Monday - Friday between 9am - 5.30pm.

Please note that this exercise is not part of any pre-qualification process. It is intended as an awareness, communication and information gathering exercise offering an opportunity for provider organisations to help inform potential future service models and/or commissioning intentions.

Please note that all communications and RFI submissions will be conducted via the In-Tend portal.