PRJ1118 - Intermediate Care Beds - Lewisham

NHS London Shared Services (LSS) is requesting market feedback, on behalf of NHS South East London Clinical Commissioning Group (SEL CCG) (the Authority), to inform an upcoming procurement for the provision of 20 intermediate care beds within the London Borough of Lewisham.

Intermediate care is a short-term intervention to preserve the independence of people who might otherwise face unnecessarily prolonged hospital stays or inappropriate admission to hospital or residential care.

Bed-based intermediate care aims to prevent unnecessary admissions to acute hospitals and premature admissions to long-term care, and to support timely discharge from hospital. For most people, interventions last up to 6 weeks. Services are usually delivered by a multidisciplinary team commonly led by healthcare professionals but including front line care staff (in care homes). Therapy input will be delivered by the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) Therapy Team with programmes supported by the care home / provider staff.

In order to assist the Authority with testing its assumptions and proposed service requirements, a market engagement questionnaire (MEQ) has been published to explore the market's feedback on the following areas:

The maximum contract value is £1,038,735 per annum and the duration of the proposed contract is 3 years followed by an optional extension of a further 2 years at the discretion of the Authority. This is subject to approval and feedback from the market on the draft contract commercials is requested.

A draft service specification and financial model are available for download via the tender portal.

The service specification, contract values and contract duration stipulated are all in draft and are being developed at the time of publication of this MEQ. Feedback from this MEQ exercise will be considered by the commissioners before the service specification and other contract parameters are finalised for the next stage of the process.

Interested organisations are asked to submit responses to the questionnaire using the template provided, available for download via the e-tendering portal ProContract (link below).

https://procontract.due-north.com/Advert?advertId=dfbb4d11-a0e5-ec11-8115-005056b64545

Please complete the MEQ template and return this via the ProContract portal messaging facility by 12noon on 1st July 2022.

Interested organisations must express an interest in the project via the Pro-contract e-tendering portal to access the MEQ. Respondents will need to register on Pro-contract if they are not registered already. This can be done by clicking the below link.

https://procontract.due-north.com/Register

Once registered, you can express an interest in this project, access and download the MEQ then complete and submit the MEQ form via the portal messaging facility.