Somerset Integrated Care Board - Home Oxygen Service - Assessment and Review and Community Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service

Somerset Integrated Care Board seeks to commission Home Oxygen Service - Assessment and Review and Community Pulmonary Rehabilitation Services for patients registered with a Somerset GP. The service is being procured as two separate lots within a single process.

Suppliers are invited to bid for one or more of the following:

Lot 1: Home Oxygen Service - Assessment and Review

The aim of this service is to deliver a high quality, safe and effective community service that ensures home oxygen therapy is appropriately prescribed to patients with clinical need whilst ensuring service prescribers, users and their carers are well informed about the nature, scope and capability of the service and that provision is evidence based, clinical led and continually strives to improve outcomes.

Lot 2: Community Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service

The aim of the service is to promote and embed pulmonary rehabilitation as an essential component in the management of patients with COPD and other chronic respiratory conditions within a high quality, safe and effective environment.

The contracts will be for an initial term of 2 years, with an option to extend for any period up to a further 2 years. The available budget per annum, exclusive of recoverable VAT is:

Lot 1: Home Oxygen Service - Assessment and Review: £229,000

Lot 2: Community Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service: £254,000

This gives a total contractual value for the combined service of £966,000

This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.

Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the 'Live Opportunities' list on the e-procurement system, Atamis, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome

Additional information: Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the 'Live Opportunities' list on the e-procurement system, Atamis, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome

The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).

The tendering process will be conducted in accordance with the requirements and flexibilities provided by Articles 74 to 76 of the Directive, and Regulations 74 to 76 of the Regulations. The Authority will run a transparent tender process, treating all Bidders equally. For the avoidance of doubt, the Authority will not be bound by the Regulations or the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these Services.

Neither the inclusion of a Bidder selection stage, nor the use of any language or terms found in the Directive or Regulations, nor the description of the procedure voluntarily adopted by the Authority ("Open", "Restricted", "Competitive Procedure with Negotiation", "Competitive Dialogue" or any other description), nor any other indication, shall be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold itself bound by the Directive or Regulations, save by the provisions applicable to services coming within the scope of Annex XIV of the Directive / Schedule 3 of the Regulations.

The Contracting Authority intends to voluntarily observe the award decision notices provisions and 10 day standstill period described in Regulation 86 of the Regulations