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Tender description

NHS England South East (Kent, Surrey, Sussex) is seeking to re-procure the Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (DESP) in Kent and Medway. The Commissioner will be contracting for the services using the National NHS Standard Contract. The contract will be for a term of 5 years and is due to commence on 10.10.2019. Payment will be made on a tariff basis and the anticipated total value of the contract, based on achievable KPI uptake (85 %), is 12 465 083 GBP. The Commissioners seek tender responses from providers who have the capability and capacity to undertake such a contract. This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners. NHS England South East (Kent, Surrey, Sussex) is seeking to re-procure the Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (DESP) in Kent and Medway. The Commissioner will be contracting for the services using the National NHS Standard Contract. The contract will be for a term of 5 years and is due to commence on 10.10.2019. Payment will be made on a tariff basis and the anticipated total value of the contract, based on achievable KPI uptake (85 %), is 12 465 083 GBP. The Commissioners seek tender responses from providers who have the capability and capacity to undertake such a contract. This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners. The contract will serve a population of around 1 800 000, of whom c. 100 729 are eligible (being individuals over the age of 12 currently identified as diabetics in need of screening). National DESP Guidance estimates a potential 4 % growth per annum in the number of people diagnosed with diabetes and approximately 2 % of the population in Kent and Medway who may be as yet undiagnosed. The service provider(s) will need to be adaptable to any new elements or changes to the national programme. The successful bidder will be required to implement the change to extended screening intervals for the low risk population as outlined by the 2016 UK NSC recommendation. The successful bidder will be required to deliver a screening programme which is fully compliant with all relevant national standards and pathways and which include the following elements: — identification and invitation of the eligible diabetic population for screening at regular/appropriate intervals (i.e. call/recall) in accordance with national guidance, — taking and grading of digital images of service users’ eyes, — provision of Digital Surveillance Clinics, Slit Lamp Biomicroscopy (SLB) within the commissioned service, — referral of service users to appropriate Hospital Eye Services/Treatment Services in accordance with nationally agreed protocols and treatment pathways. The population to be served by the programme is that covered by the 8 CCGs in the Kent and Medway Sustainable Transformation Partnership (West Kent, Medway, Ashford, Canterbury and Coastal, Thanet, Dartford Gravesham and Swanley, South Kent Coast and Swale). Interested parties are invited to take part in an Invitation To Tender (ITT) process, based on the Open procedure, and designed to identify the Most Economically Advantageous Tender and therefore determine the incoming provider. A prior information/early engagement notice was published in relation to this procurement in July 2018, seeking expressions of interest. Please note that this previous notice was an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right. Although those who responded to that notice will be advised that this contract notice has been published, there will be no process exemptions or preferential treatment afforded to any parties who expressed an interest at that stage. Interested parties can access the opportunity directly by following the link below: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/ProjectManage/820 In order to access the tender documentation you will need to “express an interest” and register on the system. Bidders are required to respond to Selection Questionnaire and ITT questions directly within the system and attach any requested documents separately to the placeholders provided.