North Staffordshire CCG and Stoke on Trent CCG Community Based Orthotics Service

North Staffordshire CCG and Stoke on Trent CCG commission health services for around 479,373 residents and are publishing this Pipeline Notice to inform interested providers of the intention to tender the Orthotics service.

It is expected that interested providers will have the capacity and capability to diagnose and treat patients and to fit, maintain and repair orthoses in a swift and effective manner in line with the timescales which will be agreed as part of the service specification.

It is expected that the provider will deliver the service currently based within the community and to also provide an in-reach function into the local acute hospital to support with outpatient, theatre and inpatient ward work across adult and paediatric services and will therefore be expected to show examples of delivering a clinically effective, high quality service at scale, including demonstrating successful implementation and delivery.

Expressions of interest should be e-mailed to r.klimczak@nhs.net and olena.florek@nhs.net , by 31st August 2017.

Additional information: Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. The contract conditions will be set out in the Invitation to Tender. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the course of the tender process.

Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information.

This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk

Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest & provide additional procurement-specific information via e-mail as shown in ii : i) Candidates should be registered on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge). If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register. For technical support in registering with Bravo Solutions contact the BravoSolution Help-desk on +44 8003684850 or E-mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk

• ii)Once registered, candidates must also confirm their expression of interest by emailing the relevant information to Roman Klimczak (E-mail: r.klimczak@nhs.net and olena.florek@nhs.net

You must submit your expression of interest by email by the deadline stated.

'Light Touch Regime' services: This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in the MOI. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.

The Commissioners may hold a bidders event 1 week after the issue of the tender documents. Details to be issued with the tender documents.