Tender

Cannock Minor Injuries Unit

NHS MIDLANDS AND LANCASHIRE CSU

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Tender

26 May 2022 at 16:02

Tender Notice
Summary of the contracting process

The Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group is seeking qualified providers to deliver a minor injuries unit at Cannock Hospital. This procurement is classified under health services and is currently at the tender stage. The open procedure for this tender has an end date of 20th June 2022, with a contract period commencing on 14th September 2022 and lasting for a minimum of 12 months, with the potential to extend for an additional year. The services are to be reinstated following the previous closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, promoting accessible and efficient care for patients in the West Midlands region.

This opportunity presents an excellent chance for healthcare providers with experience in urgent care services to grow their business. Companies that can effectively mobilise and initiate service delivery within a six-week timeframe from contract award will be particularly well-suited for this tender. The successful provider will collaborate with the NHS and other organisations to inspire a seamless and integrated patient experience, making it essential for bidders to demonstrate an understanding of patient needs and service pathways.

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Notice Information

Notice Title

Cannock Minor Injuries Unit

Notice Description

The Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group are seeking applications from suitably qualified and experienced providers to urgently deliver a minor injuries unit at Cannock Hospital. The minor injuries unit was closed in February 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and there is a need to ensure that services are reinstated as soon as possible. The service will: - Ensure patients have a positive experience of care. - Improve accessibility and flexibility for patients, ensuring care is built around the patients not the services. - Ensure that patients are effectively prioritised, directed and seen by the right clinician and receive the right treatment ensuring that health needs are met in the most appropriate setting. This will include signposting to appropriate alternative services, including minor eye care services, ensuring patients are not re-directed inappropriately to emergency care settings for the management of minor injuries. - Provide consistent clinical assessment of a patients needs at the first point of contact. - In collaboration with other Providers, patients receive a seamless and integrated urgent care response by the MIU that is appropriate to clinical need and supported by care pathways across organisational boundaries. - Promote and support a provision of patient/carer education relating to self-care post visit. The contract will run for 12 months from the service start date which is estimated to be no later than 14th September 2022, with an option to extend for up to a further 12 months. The successful bidder shall be required to mobilise and commence service delivery within a maximum of six weeks from contract award which is estimated around 18th July 2022. The service shall be required to operate from the Cannock Hospital site. Further details of the available facilities shall be made to all bidders via the MLCSU Bravo portal as soon as they are confirmed. Additional information: Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise on behalf of Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. This procurement is for Social and other specific 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') http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made. Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement. Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this 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 Contract 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. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet.

Notice Details

Publication & Lifecycle

Open Contracting ID
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Publication Source
Contracts Finder
Latest Notice
https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/65030562-dd19-47b8-a398-ee71e00ea0d9
Current Stage
Tender
All Stages
Tender

Procurement Classification

Notice Type
Tender Notice
Procurement Type
Standard
Procurement Category
Services
Procurement Method
Open
Procurement Method Details
Open procedure (above threshold)
Tender Suitability
SME
Awardee Scale
Not specified

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

CPV Divisions

85 - Health and social work services

CPV Codes

85100000 - Health services

Notice Value(s)

Tender Value
Not specified
Lots Value
Not specified
Awards Value
Not specified
Contracts Value
Not specified

Notice Dates

Publication Date
26 May 20223 years ago
Submission Deadline
20 Jun 2022Expired
Future Notice Date
Not specified
Award Date
Not specified
Contract Period
13 Sep 2022 - 13 Sep 2024 2-3 years
Recurrence
Not specified

Notice Status

Tender Status
Active
Lots Status
Not Specified
Awards Status
Not Specified
Contracts Status
Not Specified

Buyer & Supplier

Contracting Authority (Buyer)

Main Buyer
NHS MIDLANDS AND LANCASHIRE CSU
Contact Name
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Contact Email
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Contact Phone
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Buyer Location

Locality
STOKE ON TRENT
Postcode
ST4 4LX
Post Town
Stoke-on-Trent
Country
England
Major Region (ITL 1)
TLG West Midlands (England)
Basic Region (ITL 2)
TLG2 Shropshire and Staffordshire
Small Region (ITL 3)
TLG23 Stoke-on-Trent
Delivery Location
TLG West Midlands (England)
Local Authority
Stoke-on-Trent
Electoral Ward
Fenton West & Mount Pleasant
Westminster Constituency
Stoke-on-Trent Central

Further Information

Notice Documents

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