NHS Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group - Community Services

Please note this is an amendment to the notice published on 14 June 2016. The date of the Market Engagement Event has changed to 06 July 2016 . The new registration deadline is 12:00 Noon 01 July 2016.

NHS Bedfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (BCCG) working with Central Bedfordshire Council and Bedford Borough has started work to redesign the way in which community services for adults and children are delivered. The CCG wishes to develop a clear vision of the outcomes it aspires to achieve for its population, ensuring that services are delivered in a more seamless and integrated way that is closer to people's homes.

To achieve this new vision the CCG plans to commence a competitive procurement process through an outcome based specification approach, later in 2016 to commission a Provider or Multiple Providers, who will be accountable for the provision of all Community Services within the scope of the procurement.

In order to aid BCCG in its scoping of the service the CCG is seeking to enter into an early market engagement process with interested providers. For information it is likely that the following list of current services will be included within the new service model, however this is subject to change and there is scope for additional services to be included:

Adults Community Services

Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)

Adult Eye Service

Wheelchair Service

PEPS (Palliative Care Service)

Community Beds

Community Matron

Community Nursing Service

Continence

Discharge Team

Heart failure Nurses

Macmillan Specialist Palliative Care

Nutrition and Dietetics

Podiatric Surgery

Podiatry

Rehabilitation and Enablement

Speech and Language Therapy

TB Nursing

Tissue Viability

Children's Services Health Visiting Family Nurse Partnership School Nursing Special School Nurses Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy Speech and Language Therapy Special needs nursing service Children's nursing team Safeguarding CPV codes 85100000: Health Services 85323000: Community health services

During the early market engagement process the CCG will be holding a market engagement event at 12:00 Noon until 3:00 pm on the 6th July 2016, at the Kings House, 245 Ampthill Road, Bedford, Bedfordshire, MK42 9AZ, with all interested providers. The purpose of this pre-procurement event is for commissioners to communicate to interested providers:

The format of the event will be a Presentation from the CCG followed by An 'open' Q & A session.

There will be no longer be any 1:1 sessions.

Please note the new date of the event is 06 July 2016 (no longer 29/6/16).

Additional information: The pre-procurement event will also be an opportunity for all interested providers to meet and network with peers and/or potential partners within their supply chains to discuss ways in which they can deliver the CCG's desired outcomes.

Attain Commissioning Services acting on behalf of BCCG intends to use an e-tendering system in this market engagement. If you are interested in being involved in early market engagement process please register your interest on the e-tendering system by 12 Noon on 01 July 2016, which can be accessed by following the instructions below.

Getting Started

https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.htm

There (in the attachments area), you will find (word file name: BCCG RFI Final) a questionnaire with a registration form and some non-mandatory questions to help the CCG understand your experience and collect feedback / thoughts on the service.

To register, you will need to provide:

For further information or assistance please refer to online help/ manuals in the first instance. If this does not resolve your query, please contact the Helpdesk on:

Tel: 0800 368 4850 E-Mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk

All interest needs to be registered by 12:00 Noon, 01 July 2016 if you wish to attend the early market engagement event on 06 July 2016.

You are free to complete the questionnaire and submit this via a message attachment or PQQ reply an