Wellbeing Partnership Strategy / Finance and Community Services Islington and Haringey

This notice relates to two separate quotes

1. Community Services Specification: The Haringey and Islington Wellbeing Partnership has a requirement to commission additional quality improvement capacity to support community services. Whittington Health NHS Trust proposes to bring improvement expertise to work alongside operational teams, providing expert guidance and also embedding quality improvement techniques so that the teams build capacity to drive and sustain change.

2. Strategy and Finance: The Haringey and Islington Wellbeing Partnership has a requirement to commission the development of a strategy and finance plan for the health and care systems around the boroughs of Haringey and Islington

Organisations are invited to express an interest in one or both of these projects.

We would need works to begin in the week commencing in February 2018. Funding is until May 2018 when we anticipate the work will be completed. Further details are in the specification supporting document.

Additional information: NHS Islington CCG is keen to test the potential provider market for Whittington Health Community Services.

Potential providers with relevant technical capability and experience to deliver this service are required to express an interest if they are interested in bidding for this service should the CCG decide to carry out a competitive tender exercise and publishes a Contract Notice for this requirement.

You can express an interest in this market testing exercise by sending an e-mail to sarah.young11@nhs.net. The deadline for submitting a response for this market testing exercise is 12.00 noon on Monday 5 February 2018. Your e-mail must include details about your organisation's technical capability and previous experience of delivering Community Services quality improvement or similar services.

Please note that this is a market testing exercise to inform the CCGs' decision making process. This does not commit the CCG to a carry out a procurement process.

Bidders who have expressed an interest in this market testing exercise will have to submit a separate response to the Contract Notice should the CCG decide to procure this service and publish a Contract Notice (advert) for this requirement.