Health services

Tender description

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (MLCSU) is seeking expressions of interest for a Home Oxygen Service – Assessment and Referral (HOS-AR) on behalf of NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group and NHS South Sefton Clinical Commissioning Group who are the Contracting Authorities for this opportunity. The aim of the proposed service is to assist patients who require oxygen to treat their medical conditions. The provider will be required to deliver assessment and follow-up appointments in either a clinic environment or in the patient’s home, where appropriate. The medical conditions include treatment of hypoxaemia in patients with saturation of less than 92 % on air or high flow short burst oxygen for the treatment of cluster headache. NICE guidance recommends that a specialised assessment needs to take place to enable the oxygen requirements of the patient is individually met. The CCG is looking to gain Expressions of Interest (EoIs) from providers who could be interested in delivering a social prescribing service to people in the CCG area. Any interested organisation needs to visit https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/ to complete a short questionnaire regarding delivery of the service in the CCG area. This information will inform and assist the CCG in forming its Commissioning Intentions for these services. The potential contract will be valued at approximately GBP 300 000 per year; and the contract duration will be for 4 years with the potential to extend for a further 1 x 2-year period. The CCGs are only seeking expressions of interest from providers who are genuinely capable and attracted to this potential opportunity. Please only express an interest if you have the relevant authority to do so on behalf of your provider. The deadline for returning an expression of interest is 12 p.m. on Thursday 12 November 2020. In the event that the commissioners proceed to an Invitation to Tender stage all providers who expressed interest in the tender will be invited into the procurement process which will be conducted through MLCSU’s e-sourcing portal https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk. There will also be a further call for competition using the relevant advertising media.