Provision of an Out of Hospital Community Services for Nottingham City

The Out of Hospital Community Services Contract will provide high quality, evidence based integrated services that anticipate and respond to the needs of patients/citizens across Nottingham City (and south county where applicable). The Out of Hospital Community Services Contract will support delivery of the recommendations from Nottingham City's Next Phase of Integrated Care.

The contract will be for 6 years and 9 months with the option to extend for up to 2 years. During the contract life term Nottingham City CCG will become part of an Accountable Care System (ACS) across Nottinghamshire/Greater Nottingham.

The ACS will be a place based-system of health and social care in which organisations accept joint and several accountability for the triple aims of improving the health of the population, quality of services and managing the common resource: the ACS will be a single risk bearing entity to managing the entire care continuum. Additional information: The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise.

The services described within this notice relate to the Light Touch Regime in the Public Procurement Regulations 2015. How to Express Interest in this Tender. 1.

Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once). Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register - Accept the terms and conditions and click 'continue' - Enter your correct business and user details. - Note the user-name you chose and click 'Save' when complete. - You will shortly receive an e-mail with your unique password (please keep this secure). 2.

Express an Interest in the tender - Login to the portal with the username/password - Click the 'PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers' link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier). - Click on the relevant ITT 735 to access the content. - Click the 'Express Interest' button at the top of the page. - This will move the ITT into your My ITTs' page.

(This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) - You can now access any attachments by clicking 'Buyer Attachments' in the ITT Details' box. 3. Responding to the tender - Click 'My Response' under 'ITT Details', you can choose to 'Create Response' or to 'Decline to Respond' (please give a reason if declining). - You can now use the 'Messages' function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification. - Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the ITT. - There may be a mixture of on-line and off-line actions for you to perform (there is detailed on-line help available). You must then submit your reply using the 'Submit Response' button at the top of the page.