Soft Market Testing: Local Community Services-Primary Care Contracts

This soft market testing exercise is aimed at gauging the interest from providers to deliver Local Community Services for Primary Care Contracts. They were previously known as Local Enhanced Services and since transfer from the Primary Care Trust to the council on 1st April 2013, they have been renamed Local Community Services and comprise:

The purpose of this soft market testing exercise is to determine whether or not there is sufficient interest in the market place for the delivery of Local Community Services from existing, as well as, new providers, to inform future commissioning and the development/refinement of service specifications. The Council is also keen to explore ways in which the Council can improve cost effectiveness and health outcomes from Local Community Services.

A background to the Local Community Services is set out in the soft market testing Questionnaire which is available on the e-sourcing portal Delta e-Sourcing www.delta-esourcing.com.

Further details may be found in the attached full advertisement below

Additional information: To participate in this opportunity, providers must access and refer to the questionnaire at www.delta-esourcing.com

Interested providers must register and log in to the portal and find the response manager and follow the on screen instructions and type in the access code Z45ZQZQMFY.

Any questions in relation to this Questionnaire must be submitted through the Delta e-sourcing portal by no later than 12:00 noon on 13th August 2016.

Completed questionnaires must be submitted by 12:00 noon on Wednesday 24th August 2016.