Community Dermatology - NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB

Description

This is a call for expressions of interest to attend an Engagement Event for NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB's Community Dermatology Service. There are currently multiple incumbent providers delivering community dermatology in Lancashire and South Cumbria: one provider delivering the service to Fylde Coast, Central Lancashire and Pennine Lancashire patients; 3 providers delivering a community GP with Extended Role (GP with ER) dermatology service for Morecambe Bay; West Lancashire do not currently have a commissioned service within their geography, however a limited number of GP practices offer minor surgical services through Directed Enhanced Services. The existing provision includes children under 16yrs of age in Morecambe Bay, Central Lancashire and Pennine, with the exception of surgical procedures which must be referred to Secondary Care. In order to harmonise contract cycles, all contracts have been extended with a termination date of 31st October 2023 to enable a procurement exercise to be run across the system based on a common service specification. The service being procured will provide a One-Stop Community Dermatology service that ensures that patients within the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB population are offered a single point of referral for their non-skin cancer or low risk skin cancer (BCC) conditions. The service will work to reduce inappropriate referrals into secondary care and to deliver the management of the defined skin conditions in a community setting. The service will provide an integrated model of dermatology service provision for Lancashire and South Cumbria, facilitating communication and strengthening clinical governance between service providers. The service will support ICB driven innovation in practices, such as Tele dermatology and Digital Triage capabilities, evolving services within contract for the benefit of our service users. As part of this procurement process, the Authority is intending to identify one provider to deliver a Community Dermatology Service across the whole Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB. The contract will be for 2 years with a possible 1 year extension. The estimated contract value will be £15,076,592. Yr 1 £4,590,907 Yr2 £5,124,960 Yr3 £5,360,725 NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria would like to invite all potential providers to an engagement event on Friday 3rd February 2023 12pm-1pm via Microsoft Teams. The procurement is due to commence in February 2023. The procurement will be advertised on the UK Find a Tender Service (FTS) and on Contracts Finder in compliance with UK public sector procurement obligations. Interested providers are advised to register with MLCSU e-Procurement portal Bravo via the following link: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk The relevant PQQ reference number for this is PQQ_528 and the questionnaire will be located within this PQQ. Additional information: Further to standardising care, the ICB Commissioning Team continue to review the variation in provision for children with the existing services, as such the future provider may asked to open up referrals to children under 16yrs of age for non-surgical care in those areas where the service is not currently offered. At this stage this is an engagement exercise only and not a call for competition. The procurement for this service will be advertised separately. NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this exercise on behalf of the Commissioners. Details of the Engagement Event will be made available on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Candidates wishing to participate must register at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Candidates already registered will not need to re-register. This contract is for clinical services which are light touch regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the regulations. Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts. This is not a call for tenders and the Contracting Authority does not bind itself to accept any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for tenders should as considers necessary. The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these. Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act.