North West Surrey CCG Adult Community Healthcare Services

NHS North West Surrey Clinical Commissioning Group (NWS CCG) is responsible for commissioning healthcare services for around 360,000 people in North West Surrey across the boroughs of Elmbridge (West), Runnymede, Spelthorne and Woking.

NWS CCG seeks to procure a range of community healthcare services for adults. The services will deliver a proactive approach to care that identifies and supports vulnerable people in the community, prevents serious illness and provides timely coordinated care in a way that integrates out of hospital care and support systems.

The Provider will be required to work with the wider health and social care providers to develop and implement the model of care and to enable a fully integrated service to be delivered.

Full details are provided in the procurement brief attached at Section 5 of this notice. Services. The indicative services to be procured include:

• Community nurses • Specialist nurses to support core functions • Physiotherapists • Occupational therapists • Dieticians • Podiatry • Speech and language therapists • Care coordinators

The community services contract currently in place includes both children’s and adult services and serves other CCGs. For the avoidance of doubt, this procurement covers only adult community healthcare services for NWS CCG. Other procurements and arrangements are planned for children’s community healthcare services and other CCG areas.

Procurement process NWS CCG is following a Competitive Procedure with Negotiation whereby qualified Bidders will meet with the CCG to discuss innovative responses to the proposed model of care and to demonstrate how they will work with the NWS CCG and planned Neutral Partners to move towards an outcomes based contract. The procurement process for this Procurement is planned to include: Stage 1: Pre-Qualification Questionnaire Stage 2: Initial Proposals from pre-qualified Bidders Stage 3: Final Proposals from shortlisted Bidders

After the PQQ stage, the CCG plans to introduce qualified Bidders to Neutral Partners. The CCG is working to secure Neutral Partner status for local GP Federations, local acute providers, local mental health providers and local ambulance providers. This means that it is planned that the proposed Neutral Partners will not enter into separate commercial relationships with Bidders and will not support one Bidder over another, but will be available to discuss plans with Bidders at scheduled sessions. A Bidder Information Session is being held at 10am-12 noon on 12 February 2016 at HG Wells Conference and Events Centre, Church Street East, Woking, GU21 6HJ. To register for this event, email Community.Services@nwsurreyccg.nhs.uk with the names, titles and contact numbers of attendees. The email should carry the subject line: NWS CCG Adult Community Services. The CCG reserves the right to limit the number of attendees per Bidder. The closing date for receipt of the PQQ is noon on 11 March 2016.

Additional information: The NW Surrey CCG Adult Community Healthcare Services Procurement Brief is attached to this notification.

Potential Bidders should particularly note this tender is being administered on behalf of the Commissioner by NHS Commercial Solutions.

The tender will be conducted via the NHS Commercial Solutions Bravo eTendering system. NHS Commercial Solutions is utilising this electronic tendering tool to manage this Procurement and to communicate with Bidders. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to Bidders and all communications with NHS Commercial Solutions and the Commissioner will be conducted via the Bravo secure messaging service within the portal. Bidders wishing to express an Interest (EoI) in participating will be required to register on the Bravo system if they have not previously done so. This can be done at any time via this web link:

https://commercialsolutions.bravosolution.co.uk

The Bravo Project number is project_1533; the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire number is pqq_852.

It is free to register on the portal, and it can be accessed at any time of day. Should Bidders have any queries, or if Bidders are having problems registering on the portal, they should contact the BravoSolution dedicated Helpdesk. Phone: 0800 368 4850 (Monday to Friday (9am to 6pm) E-mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk

A Bidder Information Session is being held at 10am-12 noon on 12 February 2016 at HG Wells Conference and Events Centre, Church Street East, Woking, GU21 6HJ. To register for this event, email Community.Services@nwsurreyccg.nhs.uk with the names, titles and contact numbers of attendees. The email should carry the subject line: NWS CCG Adult Community Services. The CCG reserves the right to limit the number of attendees per Bidder.