NHS Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Integrated Care Board (ICB) APMS Specialised Services for Homeless, Asylum Seekers and the Special Allocation Scheme

Description

NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (ML CSU) on behalf of the Commissioner, NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB) is seeking to commission a provider to deliver APMS Specialised Services for Homeless, Asylum seekers and the Special Allocation Scheme in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Lot 1: NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (ML CSU) on behalf of the Commissioner, NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (LLR ICB) is seeking to commission a provider to deliver APMS Specialised Services for Homeless, Asylum seekers and the Special Allocation Scheme in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The service is being commissioned via a Competitive Process conducted in line with the Provider Selection Regime for Healthcare Services 2023. (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/349/contents) The ICB wishes to receive responses to the Invitation to Tenders (ITTs) from Providers with the necessary skill and experience to provide the range of services required. The service will include specialist primary care services for asylum seekers across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Alongside their entitlement to register and a GP without charge, Asylum Seeker patients often require additional specialist knowledge and experience in order for them to be cared for effectively to prevent any unwarranted escalation into acute mental or physical health provision. The service will provide general medical services to the homeless population across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. For this service specification, 'Homeless' can be defined as a person/family who: • have no accommodation available to occupy. • are at risk of violence or domestic abuse. • have accommodation but it is not reasonable for them to continue to occupy it. • have accommodation but cannot secure entry to it. • have no legal right to occupy their accommodation. • live in a mobile home or houseboat but have no place to put it or live in it. The service will provide a Special Allocation Scheme (SAS) scheme whereby the designated GP practice provides primary care services to patients across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland who have been removed from routine general practice. These patients have been allocated to the scheme after being immediately removed from their current practice as a result of an incident that was reported to the police. The ICB is seeking to award one contract to deliver the three services. The contract is anticipated to start on the 1st of April 2025 for 10 years with the option to extend for a further 5 years. The ICB have set a budget threshold for the contract, bids must be within the £1,324,297 envelope per annum. This is after the Out of Hours adjustment and is at 2024/25 prices. The envelope for the full contract term of 10 years plus the option to extend for a further 5 years is £19,864,448. It is also expected that the bidder works within the total financial envelope of £19,864,448, failure to do so will result in a non-compliant bid and automatic elimination as a potential bidder. Any bid received that is over the set thresholds will be eliminated from this Competitive process. VAT will not be chargeable to the ICB, the individual bidder will be responsible for any VAT incurred and therefore will need to ensure they can cover all appropriate costs within the pricing options shown. The invitation to tender (ITT) will be available on the ML CSU Atamis portal (see below) and it will have a deadline for submissions of 12:00 noon on Friday 16th August 2024. We recommend current providers of similar services, providers who may be interested in providing this service, or other stakeholders who may have an interest in providing this to register on the MLCSU Atamis portal to register their interest and get access to the ITT and all the related procurement documentation.