Procurement for Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) at 1) St Lawrence Medical Practice and 2) Silver End Surgery, Essex

NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (Arden & GEM CSU) on behalf of NHS England (Midlands & East (East) are seeking suitably qualified and experienced providers to bid to deliver Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) agreements at two practices in Essex;

Confirmation of the premises for St Lawrence Medical Practice (as of the 01st June 2016) will be published via the Bravo messaging facility as soon as it becomes available.

The procurement is lotted and each practice will be one lot (as detailed above). Bidders can bid for one or both of the above Lots within this procurement tendering opportunity.

The expectations are that these services will offer increased patient access and funding will be linked to KPI achievement within the current budgets. The successful provider(s) will need to demonstrate that they can deliver continuously high-quality services and will be responsive to the needs of the local populations. Provider(s) will be assessed on an on-going basis to ensure they deliver the high-quality services required. These services must be provided by GPs and nurses and the Provider(s) will be expected to:

This opportunity will be open to the entire market. Bids will be accepted from current providers bidding to run either / or both of the services advertised. Bids will be accepted from current providers proposing to run the contract (s) in effect as a branch surgery to their current practices as any other bid in line with the evaluation criteria published. It should be noted that as both contracts being procured will be run under an APMS contract it will not be possible to vary an existing contract to include as a branch surgery.

The ITT has now been published on the procurement portal and the service start date will be 01st June 2016.

Additional information: Please ensure you download and read all the documentation published with the tender and regularly check the messages facility and documentation area in case of publish of further information.

The Invitation to Tender (ITT) documentation was made available on 04th November 2015 and should be completed and all bids submitted by the closing date of 5pm on 21st December 2015.

All submissions will be evaluated using the scoring criteria which is contained within the ITT -Document 1.

Clarifications may be asked during the procurement process, the deadline for clarification questions is 5pm on 14th December 2015.

All correspondence relating to this procurement throughout all stages of the process must be managed through the Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AGEM CSU) eTendering Procurement Portal bravosolutions only.

Providers wishing to submit an ITT to deliver this service can do so by logging onto AGEM CSUs procurement portal (Bravo) as soon as possible at: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html

To register on the portal:

»From the portal Home Page, click the ‘Click Here to Register’ link

»Accept the terms & conditions for using the portal

»Complete your organisation & personal details

»Choose a memorable username and submit

»You will shortly be sent an email with your unique password, please treat this securely (if you lose it there is a ‘Forgot my Password’ link on the portal homepage)

To Access the portal and ITT:

»Login with your unique username & password

»From the suppliers reserved area click ‘ITTs Open to All Suppliers’ –this is a repository of all ITT’s open to any registered supplier.

»Browse the ITTs (there may be more than one page) and select by name; “NHS England - St Lawrence Medical Practice and Silver End Surgery, Essex - APMS”, or by ITT code; “itt_343” by clicking on it

»Note the Details buttons on the left for Navigation and the Actions below

»Click the ‘Express Interest’ action –this will move the ITT from the ITTs Open to All Suppliers area to your ‘My ITTs’ area –this is a reserved area for ITTs that you have either been invited to or expressed interest in.

The services to which this notice relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3, Part 10 of the Public Services Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) ("the Regulations"). Neither the publication of this notice nor the employment of any particular terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authorities intend to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to the procurement of Part B services.