General-practitioner services

Tender description

The Contracting Authority (Surrey Heath CCG) is seeking to direct award a contract to Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, for the provision of an Improved Integrated Access Service for General Practice. This will improve access in hours and out of hours general practice, reduce access inequalities, develop general practice at scale as part of a wider set of integrated services, ensure integration of extended access with out of hours and urgent care services. This will also take the opportunity to invest in general practice to enable sustainability today and transformation tomorrow making the service better for patients and health practitioners. The contract will run from 1.10.2018 – 30.9.2021 (3 years, plus up to 2 years extension) The contract value for the initial 3 year length of the contract would be circa 1 738 332 GBP based on £6 per head of population (96 574), if an extension option is taken this would be up to 2 897 220 GBP. The contract will be for the whole of Surrey Heath Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) registered population. For further information regarding this direct award and to access the reasons the CCG are proposing a direct award to Surrey Heath Community Providers please register on the In-tend portal project ref: F11621 and access the full PIN description and the draft Specification for the service. If any potential bidder has concerns or is not content with the commissioning intentions outlined within the published documentation, please raise this via the Intend eTendering Portal in the first instance within 30 days of the date of this Prior Information Notice. The Contracting Authority (Surrey Heath CCG) is seeking to direct award a contract to Surrey Heath Community Providers Limited, for the provision of an Improved Integrated Access Service for General Practice. This will improve access in hours and out of hours general practice, reduce access inequalities, develop general practice at scale as part of a wider set of integrated services, ensure integration of extended access with out of hours and urgent care services. This will also take the opportunity to invest in general practice to enable sustainability today and transformation tomorrow making the service better for patients and health practitioners. The contract will run from 1.10.2018 – 30.9.2021 (3 years, plus up to 2 years extension) The contract value for the initial 3 year length of the contract would be circa 1 738 332 GBP based on £6 per head of population (96 574), if an extension option is taken this would be up to 2 897 220 GBP. The contract will be for the whole of Surrey Heath Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) registered population. For further information regarding this direct award and to access the reasons the CCG are proposing a direct award to Surrey Heath Community Providers please register on the In-tend portal project ref: F11621 and access the full PIN description and the draft Specification for the service. If any potential bidder has concerns or is not content with the commissioning intentions outlined within the published documentation, please raise this via the Intend eTendering Portal in the first instance within 30 days of the date of this Prior Information Notice.