ESX ECS Elective Care Services

Procurement of Elective Care Services under an Any Qualified Provider (AQP) approach. The Commissioner is NHS High Weald Lewes Havens CCG as Lead Commissioner and NHS Eastbourne Hailsham Seaford and NHS Hastings and Rother as Associate Commissioners. The Commissioner is supported in this project by NHS South East CSU (SECSU) and its procurement partner NHS Commercial Solutions (NHSCS), which is managing this procurement.

The aim is to provide evidenced based, high quality, value for money provision of elective care to NHS patients, supporting local waiting times target and activity plans, providing patient choice and diversity.

Providers will deliver an integrated care pathway to include outpatients, diagnostics and surgery as either a day case or inpatient elective services. The service will incorporate physiotherapy, pharmacy and pathology, as appropriate to the relevant care pathway. Providers are required to deliver Elective Services at Tariff services.

With this AQP approach all bidders who complete the accreditation process to (a) demonstrate capability and capacity to deliver the service and (b) accept the standard NHS contract terms and conditions and (c) accept the commissioner’s standard tariff price will become qualified providers. All qualified providers will be offered the standard NHS contract with the same terms, conditions, and price. The contract will have no guaranteed minimum level of activity and no restricted maximum level of activity. Providers will be paid according to the actual activity level delivered.

Additional information: This procurement is being conducted using the Bravo eSourcing portal. Details of how to register on Bravo and how to access the procurement within Bravo are in the attached document "How to apply for this procurement". This procurement is identified on Bravo as "ESX ECS Elective Care Services".