Contract for Primary Medical Care Provision for Station Surgery, Leyland (Chorley and South Ribble CCG)

Chorley & South Ribble Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is inviting suitably experienced and qualified organisations to participate in this procurement for the contract for primary medical care provision at Station Surgery, Leyland.

There is currently a temporary caretaking arrangement in place at this practice which is due to end on the 31st July 2020 and a longer term arrangement is required to deliver the provision from 1st August 2020.

The CCG's intention is to award an Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) contract with a 10 year term with the option to extend for a further maximum 5 years.

The annual value of the contract is £355,569.54 (total estimated value including extension option of £5,333,543 over 15 years. The annual contract value is based on estimated income relating to the existing provision.

Practice Information & Service Description

Station Surgery, 8 Golden Hill Lane, Leyland, PR25 3NP

Current Patient List Size: 2811 (as at April 2020)

Enhanced Services currently provided by the practice:

• oAnti-Coagulation Service (Level 4)
• oAccess to Primary Care Services
• oDiabetes Management in Adult Patients Level 4
• oTreatment Room/Minor Injury Service
• oSecondary Care Initiated Drugs
• oRoutine Ring Pessary Changes
• oNHS Health checks
• oContraception
• oHep B at risk (newborn) babies vaccination programme
• oHPV completing dose (booster) vaccination programme
• oMen B vaccination programme
• oMeningococcal ACWY vaccination programme
• oMMR Vaccination programme
• oPertussis in pregnant women
• oPneumococcal polysaccharide vaccination programme
• oRotavirus
• oShingles (catch up aged 78)
• oShingles (Routine aged 70)
• oPneumococcal Haemophilus Influenza type B and Men C

The ITT will be live on Tuesday 26th May 2020 on the MLCSU Bravo portal (see below) and it will have a deadline for submissions on Monday 8th June 2020 16:00.

The deadline for submitting clarification questions on the tender is Tuesday 2nd June 2020 12:00pm.

Interested providers are guided to the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk to register their interest and gain access to this procurement's documents and more specific information. project_728 - Contract for Primary Medical Care Provision for Station Surgery, Leyland CSR CCG.

The Commissioner reserves the right to reject bids that exceed the indicated budget.

Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body.

Additional information: This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ("Regulations"). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7.

Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made

The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.

The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents.

As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.

Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, & does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.

The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.

All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these.

Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) & the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) & may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.

In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.

Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act. If & when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services.