--- title: "Primary Care Service for Care Homes and Extra Care Housing (Bromley Borough)" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03a40f" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03a40f" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03a40f.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03a40f.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "SOUTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (ICB)" published: "2023-02-08" --- # Primary Care Service for Care Homes and Extra Care Housing (Bromley Borough) Buyer: SOUTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (ICB) Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03a40f [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03a40f) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03a40f.json) ## Summary The South East London Integrated Care Board (ICB) is seeking to procure Primary Care Services for Care Homes and Extra Care Housing in Bromley Borough. This tender falls under the services category, with a focus on health services. The procurement stage is currently in planning, with a market engagement questionnaire seeking feedback on service requirements, procurement timescales, and financial models. The contract value is expected to range from £800k to £1.0m per annum. Interested organisations have until 12:00 noon on Wednesday 08 March 2023 to submit responses. This tender presents an opportunity for businesses in the healthcare and social care sectors to provide primary care services for older residents in care homes and extra care housing in Bromley Borough. The service aims to deliver patient-centric care for a vulnerable cohort, improve patient outcomes, enhance quality of care, and address various health-related challenges faced by care home residents. The contract has an initial term of 5 years, with a possible 2-year extension, and is expected to cover additional locations in the future. Businesses with expertise in multidisciplinary case management and primary care services are well-suited to compete and contribute to improving the wellbeing of care home residents across the borough. ## Notice South East London Integrated Care Board (NHS South East London) under delegated commissioning on behalf of NHS England is seeking to procure GP Primary Medical Services and additional services under APMS Contracts delivered directly nursing home residents, residential care home residents and extra care housing tenants across Bromley Borough. In order to assist the Commissioners with testing its assumptions and proposed service requirements, a market engagement questionnaire (MEQ) has been published to explore the market's feedback on the following areas: * Outline of service requirements and KPI's * timescales for procurement and mobilisation of the new contract * proposed contract duration and financial model Please note you will find the following documents: * Procurement timeline (indicative) * Outline of service requirements and the expectations for this service On the Contracts Finder advert link - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/5b7aa942-e331-4658-bc2a-eeef023218cc Interested organisations are asked to submit responses to the questionnaire using the Microsoft Forms link. Please complete the MEQ by 12:00 noon on Wednesday 08 March 2023. LINK: https://forms.office.com/e/1TKFbb6b5B ### Lot Information Lot 1 South East London Integrated Care Board (NHS South East London) under delegated commissioning on behalf of NHS England is seeking to procure GP Primary Medical Services and additional services under APMS Contracts delivered directly nursing home residents, residential care home residents and extra care housing tenants across Bromley Borough. In order to assist the Commissioners with testing its assumptions and proposed service requirements, a market engagement questionnaire (MEQ) has been published to explore the market's feedback on the following areas: * Outline of service requirements and KPI's * timescales for procurement and mobilisation of the new contract * proposed contract duration and financial model Background This service covers the London Borough of Bromley and is a dedicated primary care service for older residents living in residential and nursing care homes, and extra care housing. Residential and nursing care home residents are amongst the most frail and vulnerable, with significant clinical complexity. Residents are three times more likely to fall in a care home than in their own home. Falls prevention is a core part of the early training for care homes and an essential component of mitigating against avoidable hospital admissions. Outline The service will operate under an APMS primary care contract and provide core General Medical Services together with an enhanced service specification for medical support for nursing home residents, residential care home residents and extra care housing tenants. The enhanced service is designed to take a multi-disciplinary approach to proactive case management, support prescribing priorities and deliver both routine and urgent care 'in-hours'. Aims The aims of the service are to: * Deliver a proactive, multidisciplinary and patient-centred model of case management and primary care 'at scale' for this patient cohort * Improve patient outcomes for this cohort * Provide a responsive service that adapts over time to patient feedback and to changes in evidence concerning medical care for care home residents * Provide clinical leadership and learning to improve the quality of care for patients in care homes * Develop effective working relationships with care homes, acute hospitals, community based providers, social care and other stakeholders that will allow the contractor to effectively deliver against the objectives of this service * Improve the quality of medical support to the patient * Improve consistency and remove variation across the borough in quality of care * Improve patient experience and satisfaction * Improve end of life care * Improve management of long-term conditions, frailty and dementia * Improve the wider wellbeing of care home residents. The service currently has a list size of 1253 (December 2022) under the APMS contract and provides support to 35 care homes and 6 extra care housing locations. The service is part of one PCN in Bromley, operating from one base for the whole of the borough. The latest census information from 2021 demonstrates a 12% growth in over 65s in the 10 years since the last census, compared to a growth in the full population of 7% over the same period. In addition, whilst this contract is currently to cover 41 locations, there are ongoing planning applications and approvals in progress for new additional provision. It is expected that new locations will be opened over the coming years accordingly, and its residents will be served by this contract in the future. The indicative contract value will range from PS800k to PS1.0m per annum. The contracts will have an initial term of 5 years (60 months), followed by an optional extension of 2 years (24 months) at the discretion of the commissioner. If all available extension is taken up in full the contract will have a maximum duration of 7 years (months 84 months). Please complete the MS Forms Market Engagement Questionnaire (see Link section) ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003934-2023 | | Notice type | Planning Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning, Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 8 Feb 2023 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 21 May 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 | Planned | | Lots status | Planned | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | SOUTH EAST LONDON INTEGRATED CARE BOARD (ICB) | | Locality | LONDON | | Post town | South East London | | Postcode | SE1 2TZ | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLI London | | ITL 2 | TLI4 Inner London - East | | ITL 3 | TLI44 Lewisham and Southwark | | Local authority | Southwark | | Electoral ward | London Bridge & West Bermondsey | | Westminster constituency | Bermondsey and Old Southwark | | Delivery location | TLI61 Bromley | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85100000 - Health services ## Release History - 8 Feb 2023 at 17:07 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003934-2023 - 8 Feb 2023 at 16:56 - Planning - Planning Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/003933-2023 ## Notice URLs - https://forms.office.com/e/1TKFbb6b5B - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/5b7aa942-e331-4658-bc2a-eeef023218cc - https://www.selondonics.org/icb/ ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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