--- title: "Hospice at Home and Palliative Care Community Service for Adults and Children and Young People" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-4348d87d-4876-4dda-81e7-40d8e1cbbf8d" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-4348d87d-4876-4dda-81e7-40d8e1cbbf8d" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-4348d87d-4876-4dda-81e7-40d8e1cbbf8d.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-4348d87d-4876-4dda-81e7-40d8e1cbbf8d.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT" published: "2023-08-02" --- # Hospice at Home and Palliative Care Community Service for Adults and Children and Young People Buyer: NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-4348d87d-4876-4dda-81e7-40d8e1cbbf8d [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-4348d87d-4876-4dda-81e7-40d8e1cbbf8d) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-4348d87d-4876-4dda-81e7-40d8e1cbbf8d.json) ## Summary The NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit is seeking potential providers for a Hospice at Home and Palliative Care Community Service in Buckinghamshire. The procurement process is currently in the planning stage. The engagement end date is set for August 18, 2023. The service will cater to the population of Buckinghamshire primarily, with the potential to include Oxfordshire and Berkshire West. The procurement method is a tender, and the industry category is health services. This tender offers opportunities for healthcare providers specialising in palliative care and related services. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations are well-suited to compete. Interested parties should complete a pre-procurement market engagement questionnaire by August 18, 2023. The opportunity is within the Light Touch Regime of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, ensuring a streamlined procurement process emphasising market engagement and information gathering. ## Notice NHS Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) is seeking to engage with potential providers to understand the position of the market and help develop an approach for recommissioning a Hospice at Home and Palliative Care Community Service for all ages in the Buckinghamshire locality. This service will predominantly serve the population of Buckinghamshire, but when appropriate may also include Oxfordshire and Berkshire West. The main responsibilities include (but are not limited to): * 24/7 access to specialist nursing care at home. * Provide advanced symptom management including: - complex symptom management skills - knowledge of the deterioration and dying process - understanding of rare disorders and their pathways * Co-ordinate care working in collaboration with other professionals and providers and input into Multidisciplinary Teams (MDT), to support a person's palliative and end of life needs and management through to debrief following death. * Be an active member in other professional meetings, including but not limited to hospitals, hospices, and the community. * Support personalised care and support conversations and advance care planning, including emergency care and treatment planning (and the use of ReSPECT) and accessing NHS continuing healthcare funding and care if appropriate. * To support end of life decision-making, including preferred place of care if important to the person. * Help support rapid discharge from hospital to hospice or home for care at the end of life. * Provide bereavement support for people with complex needs [this may be via referral) * Provide and support education and training programmes for specialist and generalist providers delivering palliative care for the BOB ICS. The service will be instrumental in providing equitable specialist palliative care services as well as supporting education and training to non-specialist services both NHS and Non-NHS. The service will work closely with the Integrated Care Board and system partners across all sectors (Primary, Secondary, Community Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector), raising awareness of death and dying and supporting compassionate communities to grow, whilst working towards changing society's perception of death. The ICB invites interested providers to complete a pre-procurement market engagement questionnaire. Please submit your completed questionnaire by Friday 18th August via our e-procurement system, Atamis. This process is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioner. Atamis: Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the 'Live Opportunities' list on the e-procurement system, Atamis, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Additional information: This notice is an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. The Commissioner is looking to establish what interest there might be in providing such a service from suitably qualified, capable and competent organisations. The ICB will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise. Interested parties should note that a response to this notice does not guarantee an automatic invitation to any subsequent formal procurement, which the Commissioner will consider in due course. Atamis: Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the 'Live Opportunities' list on the e-procurement system, Atamis, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Once you have found the opportunity (via the search function, using the title or reference number), to gain full access to the relevant information and market engagement questionnaire, you will need to click on 'Register interest' - this will take you to the log-in page. If you are not already registered on the system, you will need to do so before gaining full access to the documentation and to be able to submit market engagement questionnaire. The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77). ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9dc3f670-be4f-4ed1-9213-19775c3854b3 | | Notice type | Planned Procurement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 2 Aug 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 18 Aug 2023 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT | | Locality | BRISTOL | | Post town | Bristol | | Postcode | BS1 3NX | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLK5 West of England | | ITL 3 | TLK51 Bristol, City of | | Local authority | Bristol, City of | | Electoral ward | Central | | Westminster constituency | Bristol Central | | Delivery location | TLJ South East (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85100000 - Health services ## Release History - 2 Aug 2023 at 16:24 - Planning - Planned Procurement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9dc3f670-be4f-4ed1-9213-19775c3854b3 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/9dc3f670-be4f-4ed1-9213-19775c3854b3 2nd August 2023 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/Attachment/38d03311-372d-4143-8a2b-39caec7300a5 Full Text of CF Advert - Service Description ## Notice URLs - https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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