Medical practice and related services

Tender description

The commissioner is committed to achieving primary care access objectives which includes: — improve patient access to services, — improve patient experience and satisfaction, — increase services within primary care to provide care closer to home, — early intervention and prevention, — promotion of health and well being. The Contractor must provide: (a) services required for the management of the registered patients and temporary residents, who are, or believe themselves to be: (i) ill with conditions from which recovery is generally expected; (ii) terminally ill; or (iii) suffering from chronic disease. Which are delivered in the manner determined by the Contractor’s practice in discussion with the patient, or, where appropriate (e.g. where power of attorney exists), the patient’s next of kin or legal guardian; (b) appropriate on-going treatment and care to all registered patients and temporary residents taking account of their specific needs. This is a call for competition. NHS West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (WL CCG) are commissioning a provider to deliver primary medical services under an Alternative Provider of Medical Services (APMS) contract for The Centre Surgery located in Hinckley, Leicestershire. The commissioner wishes to receive responses to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) from suitably qualified and experienced Providers with the necessary capacity and capability (or a demonstrable ability to provide the necessary capacity and capability) to provide the range of services required. The provider must ensure services are appropriate to local needs, access and convenience are important aspects of a patient-centred service but it is also vital that the services are appropriate and responsive to the needs of the local population. The provider will need to design the services around the needs of patients and their carer’s. To deliver a patient-centred service, the provider will need to engage patients in the design and development of the services. Please see service specification for further detail. The contract shall be for a term of five (5) years plus 5 years subject to review of performance at 5 years. The service will be commissioned via an open procurement process advertised to all providers which is proportionate to the value and complexity of the service and contract. The ITT will be live on the 2.11.2018 on M&L CSU Bravo portal (see below) and it will have a deadline for submissions of 12:00 on the 30.11.2018. Clarifications may be asked during the procurement process up to a week before the ITT deadline, i.e. the deadline for submitting clarification questions on the tender is 17:00 23.11.2018. Interested providers are guided to the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk to register their interest and gain access to this procurement’s documents and more specific information. Please see next page for instructions on how to register on the portal.