Nottinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Groups - Integrated Urgent Care

The Nottinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Groups are exploring options on how to re-commission elements of their Integrated Urgent Care Pathways. This is driven by the new models of care set out in the Five Year Forward View aimed at national service improvements in Urgent and Emergency Care.

The full service scope is in the process of being defined but will include Integrated Urgent Care requirements including GP Out of Hours and a Clinical Assessment Service and Urgent Treatment Centres. In order to inform the commissioning process, commissioners are looking to establish what interest there might be in providing such a service from suitably qualified, capable and competent organisations and engage providers.

A Market Engagement Event (MEE) will be held on 1/03/2019 with the aim of gathering information from stakeholders which may be used to shape the tender process and documentation. In the event you are unable to attend but would like to receive a copy of any presentation materials, please complete the provider sounding questionnaire and email it to scwcsu.whprocurement@nhs.net and copies of the presentation material will be sent to you.

An expression of interest to attend this MEE is no indication of a commitment to participate in any future tender process nor does it infer any special status on those Providers who do attend. An expression of interest in this event will not automatically entitle involvement in any future procurement exercise.

Any procurement conducted subsequent to the event will be advertised separately and all organisations wanting to participate will need to respond to the procurement advertisement as and when it is published. Providers who do not attend this MEE will still be able to apply for the Procurement in the future.

Please note that this MEE does not represent a formal stage in the procurement process and attendance will play no part in any subsequent evaluation process. Additional information: This notice is not a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit NHS Nottinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Groups or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest to attend this event.

NHS Nottinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Groups will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise. 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 instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).

Any 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. Additional CPV codes: 79510000 - Telephone answering services 79512000 - Call Centre 85000000 - Health and Social Work Services 85120000 - Medical Practice and Related Services 85121000 - Medical Practice Services 85121100 - General Practitioner Services 85140000 - Miscellaneous Health Services 85141000 - Services Provided by Medical Personnel 85141200 - Services Provided by Nurses 85141220 - Advisory Services Provided by Nurses 85312310 - Guidance Services 85323000 - Community Health Services