Solihull CCG Urgent Care Service - Market Engagement Event 23 July 2015

Solihull Clinical Commissioning Group (SCCG) shortly intends to launch a procurement opportunity to source a service provider to operate a proposed Urgent Care Centre on the Solihull Hospital site. When established, the Urgent Care Centre will provide a single, innovative service that delivers urgent primary care and minor injuries treatment on 24 hours-a-day, 365 days-a-year basis, currently seeing some 120,000 attendances per year.

In undertaking the procurement, SCCG is working with a wide-range of stakeholders including (but not limited to) Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust (“HEFT”), who will continue to be the landlord for the Urgent Care Centre, the Midlands and Lancashire NHS Commissioning Support Unit and Solihull CCG’s own Patient Reference and Clinical Advisory Groups.

As part of the development of its strategy for the procurement, SCCG is seeking to further engage with potential service providers. This follows a Market Engagement Exercise conducted in autumn 2014, since when there has been significant work to agree and design the facility which will be available for this service. Accordingly, we announce the launch of a Market Engagement Event and invite any organisations that are interested in this opportunity to engage with us. This will comprise a Market Engagement event on 23rd July 2015. At the event attendees will :

• receive an overview of the service and clinical integration including facility design;
• receive information about activity and finance;
• hear the overarching procurement timeline and next steps

There will be an opportunity to view the architect’s site design for the facility, and attendees will also be able to receive further information from (and meet with) representatives of SCCG and HEFT, who will together outline their strategic aims and objectives for the Urgent Care Centre and receive questions from potential providers.

Note: the forthcoming procurement is solely for delivery of the Urgent Care Service; the Centre's design, build and re-fit will be undertaken by HEFT and is outside the scope of this procurement.

Please note also that participation in the market engagement exercise is not a mandatory requirement for participating in the procurement.

Registration for the Market Engagement Event will close at 5pm on 21st July 2015.

Additional information: Registration for the Market Engagement Event will close at 5pm on 21st July 2015. EXPRESSING INTEREST IN TAKING PART IN THE MARKET ENGAGEMENT AND REGISTERING FOR THE MARKET ENGAGEMENT EVENT TO BE HELD ON 23 JULY 2015: This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands & Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. Candidates wishing to take part in this market engagement and attend the engagement event on 23 July 2015 must register their expression of interest through the portal as follows: i)Candidates should register on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge). If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register. ii)Once registered, candidates must express interest by a) logging-in to the Portal, b)selecting response to advert and PQQ (search for reference number pqq_380 - note that the reference is "pqq", but this is NOT a formal pre-qualification questionnaire), c) select Open Access PQQ, d) search for and access listing related to this contract and view details, e) click on Express Interest link. You must submit your reply by the deadline stated. For technical support in submitting your expression of interest contact the BravoSolution Help-desk on 0800 368 4850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means.