Community health services

Tender description

NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is considering how it wishes to commission community health services from 2020 onward. The CCG wants to ensure consistency of community health service provision across its geography and is interested in integrated and innovative models of care. Subject to market scoping, stakeholder engagement and specification development, the CCG is considering seeking a partner to deliver community health services for the next 7 to 10 years across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. The CCG wishes to engage with the market to understand general market appetite to deliver the services, views about the emerging model of care and services, views about the potential design of any subsequent procurement process and other factors on which the market can provide intelligence. One or more market engagement events is planned to discuss the potential scope and to gauge market interest. NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is considering how it wishes to commission community health services from 2020 onward. The CCG wants to ensure consistency of community health service provision across its geography and is interested in integrated and innovative models of care. Subject to market scoping, stakeholder engagement and specification development, the CCG is considering seeking a partner to deliver community health services for the next seven to ten years across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. The final scope of the services is to be determined. Any procurement may include adult community health services (indicative budget 120 000 000 GBP per annum), with or without children’s community health services and children and adolescent mental health services (indicative budget 50 000 000 GBP per annum). If children’s community health services are included, any procurement may be a joint procurement with the local authority and NHS England. The CCG wishes to engage with the market to understand general market appetite to deliver the services, views about the emerging model of care and services, views about the potential design of any subsequent procurement process and other factors on which the market can provide intelligence. One or more market engagement events is planned to discuss the potential scope and to gauge market interest. Dependent on market scoping, stakeholder engagement and development of specifications, the CCG is considering releasing a Request for Proposals in January 2019, using principles similar to competitive procedure with negotiation. Due to the scope and complexity of the services potentially to be included, the CCG wishes to engage in negotiation with interested parties to ensure that the final services meet population needs. It is therefore likely that any procurement will involve an iterative process. The CCG is planning to hold a market engagement event the morning of Monday 15 October to describe the broad vision and scope. Details will be provided to those who express an interest. To be invited to market engagement event(s) and be updated about any plans for commissioning these services, interested parties must register on the CCG’s e-procurement system at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home by 12:00 noon on Wednesday 10.10.2018. Parties should then review the list of ‘current tenders’ and select the option to ‘express an interest’. This e-procurement portal is managed by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit on behalf of the CCG.