Primary Care GP Care-taking Services - Orient Community Practice, Waltham Forest

NHS England (the Contracting Authority) is seeking to identify a suitable provider of Primary Care GP Services to undertake a GP caretaking contract in London for the Orient Community Practice based in London Borough of Waltham Forest.

The successful Bidder will be required to provide general medical services at the address of the Practice referred to above, using the current clinical staff and non-clinical staff, where employed, to ensure continuity of service provision for patients. The successful Bidder will also be required to ensure that the Practice is managed and provides high quality general medical services in a consistent and accessible way, to meet the needs of the registered patients. This will include providing clinical leadership to the practice team at the Practice and establishing robust governance processes. The successful Bidder will be required to enter into a sub-lease for the use of that property with the Head leaseholder alongside the APMS Contract.

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 Contract will be for a period of 16 months - the initial contract period will be from 1st April 2017 to 1st October 2017. The initial period is followed by an optional extension of 6 months (to 1st March 2018) until a final commissioning decision is implemented.

Prospective bidders are requested to note that, due to operational necessity, the start date for this contract is 1st April 2017. Therefore the mobilisation start date is within a very short time period from announcement of award. Please only submit a response if you can achieve the very tight mobilisation period.

Additional information: Bidders should respond to this ITT opportunity by completing the online questionnaire published on the Contracting 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 27th January 2017 at 12:00pm.

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 Contracting Authority.