Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) Phase - Community Services in Gateshead for and on behalf of NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group

NHS Newcastle Gateshead Clinical Commissioning Group (NGCCG) wishes to procure a service provider to deliver its “Care Closer to Home” requirement in Gateshead. To ensure local services are delivering the very highest quality of care, NHS NGCCG are seeking to arrange local community services in a different, more streamlined way. In line with their shared plans for integrated services, NHS NGCCG see core community services as those that provide smooth transition for patients to and from hospital care during more acute phases of people’s illness. By integrating pathways of care, patients will have better access to the right care, close to home, from the most appropriately skilled professional at their time of need. This whole system approach will see patients at the centre of care planning, commissioning, delivery and support. This will result in a greater focus on ill health prevention, provide proactive and responsive care when it is needed and help maintain patients’ independence for as long as possible. Care Closer to Home brings together health and social services and looks at the needs of patients by reducing the number of fragmented interventions, making patient journeys shorter, safer, more effective and entail fewer ‘handovers’ between services, and the greater involvement of patients in their own treatment and care. Owing to the requirement's complexity and scale, NHS NGCCG is utilising the Competitive Dialogue process to explore and finalise service model and specification options with potential providers, and then procure a service provider to deliver the proposed service model. This process will consist of a multi-stage process which includes: (a) an initial Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) assessment of potential providers’ capacity, capability and experience;(b) the shortlisting of potential providers who meet stipulated quality thresholds; (c) a series of dialogue sessions held with those shortlisted providers to further develop and finalise the service model and associated requirements; and (d) a final procurement process whereby those shortlisted providers are invited to submit a Tender to deliver the finalised service model for NGCCG.

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is managing the process for and on behalf of NHS NGCCG using an electronic tendering portal (In-Tend). To register your interest in providing this service and access the PQQ / supporting documentation, please register on the NECS E-Tendering Portal ( https://in-tendhost.co.uk/necs ). Once registered, to view details of the opportunity, select the “Tenders” tab and then choose “Current Tenders”. To view further information, click the button marked “View Details”. You will then be able to express your interest by selecting the button marked “Express Interest”, and then access the documentation. Please also be aware that existing similar services that are in operation in the Newcastle-upon-Tyne area are not affected by NHS NGCCG’s requirements.

Additional information: PLEASE NOTE - Should you have any queries or experience any problems with accessing or utilising the e-tendering portal, please contact the In-Tend Helpdesk by calling 0844 2728810 (Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm) or email support@in-tend.co.uk. Alternatively, a help guide can be found on the portal by clicking on the tab marked “Guidance for Suppliers”.