Tele-Dermatology & One-stop Advice Treatment Service (OATS)

Lead Provider Model

In this model, Tower Hamlets CCG will commission the Teledermatology and One Stop Assessment and Treatment Services (OATS) to a single provider that will then both provide care and integrate existing and other providers into a programme of care for the Tower Hamlets Dermatology patient population. It is the prime contractor’s task to ensure that every part of the overall Dermatology programme is delivered in a way that joins up with the other parts of the pathway. This provides the prime contractor/lead provider (with its subcontractors) the ability to construct an overall pathway of care and incentives that provide Tower Hamlets CCG, as the commissioner, with the outcomes that they want whilst remaining within the available budget.

Commissioning for outcomes and quality not activity based

The commissioners, NHS Tower Hamlets CCG, plan to a whole systems approach moving beyond productive/technical efficiency (i.e. maximising the efficiency of any one institution) towards allocative efficiency (i.e. maximising the efficiency of a pathway served by more than one provider). To incentivise this collaboration and consideration of allocative efficiency, the commissioners will align financial incentives for the lead provider into delivery of a single set of outcome measures, shared by all providers within the system of care. Therefore, the commissioner, NHS Tower Hamlets CCG will commission a service that is supported by a block outcomes based contract. This means that the successful bidder will be awarded 70% payment upon award of the contract, with the remainder 30% value upon successful evidence of the expected outcomes measured by the KPI’s defined within the contract. The total value of the contract over 5 years is £1,209,574.

This contract baseline is for three years (£755,747- activity and outcome achieved) with two years possible contract extension- amounting to five years total contract life span (£ 1,209,574- activity and outcome achieved).

Additional information: To register expression of interest and access tender documentation: www.supplying2nhs.com

Instructions for Applicants

All providers who wish to apply to this offer must do so by initially registering on Pro-Contract as suppliers, then registering your interest in the Tower Hamlets Tele-Dermatology & One-stop Advice Treatment Service (OATS) via: www.supplying2nhs.com (also known as Pro-contract) in order to access the Open Tender documents and online evaluation questionnaire issued on Pro-Contract. Following the registration of interest, bidders will receive an email notification from Pro-Contract allowing them access to the all the relevant documentation. If you are already registered as a supplier on Pro-contract, you will not need to register again, simply use your existing username and password to log into Pro-contract in order to register an interest and access the Tower Hamlets Tele-Dermatology & One-stop Advice Treatment Service (OATS)tender documents and online evaluation questionnaire issued for this Tower Hamlets Tele-Dermatology & One-stop Advice Treatment Service (OATS) . If you require any technical support on Pro-Contract, please email support@due-north.com or telephone 01670 597136. Bidders must use Pro-contract discussion board for their clarifications and all other communications with NEL Commissioning Support or NHS Tower Hamlets CCG regarding this procurement.

Note: The deadline for completed responses is 12pm (Noon) 15th September 2015.