Community Anticoagulation Services - Bromley

This is a Prior Information Notice. NHS South East London (NHS SEL ICB, hereafter referred to as "The Authority") invites Expressions of Interest (EoIs) and completion of a Market Engagement Questionnaire from all suitable providers, who are capable of delivering the required Community Anticoagulation services in Bromley or who wish to provide feedback on the Authority's proposals.

NHS South East London - Bromley borough - has a community anticoagulation service which is currently delivered via 6 clinics and home visiting service. The service includes:

• Initiation of anticoagulation treatment: both Direct Oral Anti-Coagulants (DOAC) and Warfarin (majority of new referrals are initiated on DOAC)

• Around 22 new referrals per month, accepting from primary and secondary care

• Monitoring of warfarin patients (700 under the service, around 1030 appointments per month)

• Home visiting to housebound patients eligible for the community service (around 320 visits per month)

• Undertaking measures to bring patients back into therapeutic INR range, however onward referral to secondary care is facilitated when necessary.

• Undertaking switches between Direct Oral Anti-Coagulants (DOAC) as appropriate during initiation period.

• Service delivered by pharmacist leads and Independent Prescribers (IPs). Clinical supervision is outsourced to a hospital-based consultant (not based in Bromley, but within SEL).

This contract is due to expire on 31/03/2023 and NHS South East London is seeking expressions of interest and feedback on proposals from capable suppliers ahead of launching a procurement process to determine the service provider for the services from 01/04/2023.

The annual contract value is expected to be between £320,000 and £370,000. This leaves a maximum 3-year contract value of £1,110,000 and a maximum 5-year contract value of £1,850,000.

Interested providers are required to express an interest in this project and complete the Market Engagement Questionnaire available on the tender portal before the 5th September 2022 at 12:00 (noon). Completed Market Engagement Questionnaires can be submitted via the portal messaging facility.

Any communications or clarification questions about this contract opportunity must be submitted be via the messaging facility for this project on ProContract e­tendering portal.

This Market Engagement process is being managed by the Procurement & Contracting Hub (hosted by NHS North East London) on behalf of NHS South East London in connection with a process under Regulation 75 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations" (as amended)). The services to which this Procurement relates fall within the "Light Touch Regime" (LTR) governing procurement of Health, Social, Education and Other service contracts. No indication shall be taken to mean that the Contracting Authority intends to hold itself bound to any of the Regulations, save those applicable to LTR provisions.

Additional information: See portal messaging facility for market engagement questionnaire, service summary and activity assumptions.