Pharmacy services

Tender description

London Procurement Partnership (LPP) contracts as Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust and is issuing this Contract Notice as a call to competition to prospective suppliers who wish to submit tenders for a Framework Agreement for Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing Services. Outpatients Pharmacy Dispensing Services will include: a) Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing; b) Emergency Department Dispensing; c) Provision of Retail Pharmacy services; d) Outpatients Pharmacy Dispensing Home Delivery Service; e) Discharge to take out or take away (TTO/TTA) Medicines Dispensing. With an increasing number of LPP member organisations looking to generate efficiencies and service improvements in Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing, LPP has taken the decision to tender for a framework agreement for these services. The aim of the framework agreement will be to enable LPP member Trusts and NHS organisations throughout the United Kingdom to accelerate and streamline the procurement process, thereby allowing for early realisation of benefits. Accessible only through further competition, the purpose of the framework agreement will be achieve a degree of standardisation of headline governance and outline specification. Furthermore LPP will be creating a further competition tool kit for organisations wishing to use the framework agreement thereby seeking to standardise the approach thereby simplifying processes for supplier and NHS organisation alike. When conducting local further competitions NHS organisations may develop the specification to provide for specific requirements relevant to those organisations. Also under further competition the NHS organisations may choose to include some or all of the requirements in the specification dependant upon their needs. Bidders must demonstrate that they can provide all of the services called for under the Framework Agreement. Any organisations interested in delivering Outpatient Pharmacy Dispensing Services under a framework agreement to engage with LPP should download the procurement documentation and, if interested, submit a tender in accordance with the instructions. LPP is not liable for any costs incurred by those tendering for this framework agreement. Opportunity. An indicative list of potential framework agreement participants can be found at: Acute Trusts: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AcuteTrustListing.aspx Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs): http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CCGListing.aspx Mental Health Trusts: http:// www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/MentalHealthTrustListing.aspx Ambulance Trusts: http://www.nhs.uk/ ServiceDirectories/Pages/AmbulanceTrustListing.aspx Care Trusts: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/ Pages/CareTrustListing.aspx NHS Trust Development Authority (TDA): http://www.ntda.nhs.uk/ Special Health Authorities: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx Arms Length Bodies: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/arms-length-bodies/our-arms-length-bodies NHS England: http://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/d-com/ and other organisations involved in commissioning of primary care services via Clinical Commissioning Groups — CCGs supported by the Commissioning Support Units — CSU's which will be responsible for commissioning most aspects of NHS care (or equivalent body/ bodies established pursuant to legislation enacted as a result of, or in connection with, the White Paper. Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS published July 2010. CCG: www.commissioningboard.nhs.uk/ ccg-details/ CSU: www.commissioningboard.nhs.uk/appointments/csu NHS Professional Regulator: http:// www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/healthregulators/Pages/professional-standards-authority.aspx The Clinical Commissioning Board, Area Teams: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx and other organisations involved in commissioning and/or overseeing General Practitioner services and GP consortia and GP Practices; and any other provider of primary medical services: a) Who are a party to any of the following contracts: — General Medical Services (GMS), — Personal Medical Services (PMS), — Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS); and/or b) Commissioned by NHS England or other organisations involved in commissioning or overseeing General Practitioner services, as described above. Social Enterprises: http://www.socialenterprise.org.uk/ Local Authorities: http://www.idea.gov.uk/idk/org/la-data.do NHS Wales (National Health Service for Wales) including but not limited to Welsh Health Boards, Primary care services — GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital services, and community services, including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.nhsdirect.wales.nhs.uk/ localservices/localhealthboards/NHSScotland (NationalHealthServiceforScotland) including but not limited to NHS Boards, Hospitals, Primary care Services GPs, pharmacies, dentists and optometrists, Hospital Services, social care services and community services including those provided through community health centres and mental health services: http://www.hscni.net