North Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Minor Hand Surgery Service

This opportunity has previously been advertised as a future opportunity on contracts finder and also OJEU. OJEU reference 2017/S 167-343698.

NHS North Staffordshire and NHS Stoke on Trent CCGs serve a registered population of approximately

502,000 people. The CCGs are considering the possible procurement of an Adult Community Minor Hand

Surgery Service for the population of Northern Staffordshire, using a single provider route. The community

based service shall provide high quality minor hand surgical procedures for Carpal Tunnel Decompression and

Trigger Finger Release as part of the orthopaedic/musculoskeletal pathway.

The overarching aims of the service are to provide:

• A high quality, cost effective and patient centred surgical procedures for people with Carpal Tunnel and

Trigger Finger.

• Timely access to reduce waiting times and achievement of the 18 week referral to treatment target.
• Community based provision, offering an alternative to secondary care
• Clinically effective treatments that reduce the demand on secondary care (acute) services and reduce the

need for more costly interventions

Further details, to include contract duration will be made available at a later date only to those organisations who have registered their interest in this service.

Organisations wishing to express an interest and provide additional procurement-specific information should

provide the following details by email to olena.florek@nhs.net or Elizabeth.johnson1@nhs.net by Sunday 1st October 2017. The following information must be stated in the email: organization name and address, contact name, telephone number,

Organisations should also confirm their registration on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU Bravo Portal

https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. If not registered, organisations should follow the link and register on the portal.

Further details will be made available

via documentation and information released during the course of the tender process. Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information. This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk

Candidates should also 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.

For technical support in registering on the Bravo system, please contact the BravoSolution Help-desk on +44 8003684850 or E-mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk

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. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in the MOI and PQQ. 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, and 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) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and 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 and

when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU are conducting this procurement exercise for another NHS

body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services.

The contract conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender.