Market Engagement for Multi-Specialty Community Provider

NHS Sunderland CCG wish to commission a Multi-specialty Community Provider (MCP) for the delivery of a range of community-based health and care services for the registered patient population covered by the CCG.

It is anticipated that the MCP will, in summary:

The purpose of this PIN is to initiate market engagement and is not being used as a call for competition. The Request for Information (RFI) and Market Engagement Event will inform the further development of the draft prospectus for the future service delivery.

The PIN is intended to:

•Inform the market of a potential future procurement process for the Sunderland MCP; and

•Advise of a market engagement event which will be held on the 22nd November 2017 at 4pm.

The model is based on letting a contract to a single legal entity but this does not preclude innovative or multi-party bidding models and potential providers can consider a range of models which will meet the CCG's requirements. The MCP may provide all or some of the services, and all or some of the services may be sub-contracted. The event will be used as a way of being able to understand the capacity and capability of the market to ensure that there is a provider with the ability to bring together and integrate the range of services that will be in the scope of the contract.

Additional information: North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is working for and on behalf of NHS Sunderland CCG and is utilising an electronic tendering system to communicate with potential providers. There will be no hard copy documents issued to potential providers and all communications with NECS will be conducted via the portal www.proactisplaza.com/supplierportal/?CID=NECS To express an interest, please register on the electronic tendering portal, which can be found at www.proactisplaza.com/supplierportal/?CID=NECS.

Once registered, you will be able to view details of the opportunity by selecting the "Opportunities" box, and then searching for "Market Engagement Sunderland MCP" (Reference NECS282). To view further information on this specific opportunity, click the button marked "show me". From this area, you will be able to request documents for this opportunity.

Please note that it is free to register on the portal, which can be accessed at any time of day as long as you have a working internet connection. If you have any problems registering on the portal, you should contact PROACTIS by Email: Suppliersupport@proactis.com

Website: http://proactis.kayako.com/suppliernetwork/Core/Default/Index (Monday to Friday, 8:30 to 17:00).

PLEASE NOTE: The closing date for receipt of the Request for Information (RFI) Response Document is 12 noon on 20 November 2017