--- title: "Integrated MSK Services for South and West Hertfordshire - Corrigendum Notice" ocid: "ocds-h6vhtk-03bddd" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03bddd" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03bddd.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03bddd.json" source: "Find A Tender Service" current_stage: "Tender" buyer: "HERTFORDSHIRE AND WEST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD" published: "2023-05-11" --- # Integrated MSK Services for South and West Hertfordshire - Corrigendum Notice Buyer: HERTFORDSHIRE AND WEST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD Current stage: Tender OCID: ocds-h6vhtk-03bddd [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-h6vhtk-03bddd) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-h6vhtk-03bddd.json) ## Summary The Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board has initiated a public procurement process titled "Integrated MSK Services for South and West Hertfordshire - Corrigendum Notice" within the Health services industry category. The tender, with a maximum potential value of £35,000,000, aims to deliver an integrated MSK service to improve, support, manage, and coordinate MSK needs across primary and community care in South & West Hertfordshire. The procurement stage involves a corrigendum notice published to clarify details within the tender documentation, highlighting the deadline of 17th May 2023 for bid submissions. This tender presents an opportunity for healthcare service providers to compete for contracts focusing on musculoskeletal health services. Businesses offering expertise in primary and community care with access to secondary care resources are well-suited to participate. The contracting authority, Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board, based in Welwyn Garden City, UK, aims to enhance the health and well-being of local communities by developing a service in line with public procurement regulations. The flexibility to expand services into additional areas within the authority's boundary creates room for potential long-term collaboration and growth opportunities for bidders. ## Notice The Contracting Authority published an opportunity in Find a Tender on 11th April (reference 2023/S 000-010397) to invite suitably qualified providers to submit offers to deliver an Integrated MSK Service within South & West Hertfordshire. The community iMSK service aims to improve, support, manage and coordinate MSK needs and conditions delivered across primary and community care, but with access to expertise in secondary care for advice, collaboration and onward referral when required. The Authority published a further Corrigendum Notice published on 10th May 2023 (reference 2023/S 000-013236) to clarify wording within Section 11.2.4 of the Invitation to Tender Overview document published as part of the tender documentation. The purpose of this Corrigendum Notice is to confirm that the Authority has taken the decision to remove this statement from the previously published notices and the tender documentation. This is also to confirm, that the maximum potential value of this procurement, including all options and extensions, is PS35,000,000. ### Lot Information Lot 1 This purpose of this notice is to invite suitably qualified providers to submit offers to deliver Integrated MSK Services within South & West Hertfordshire. The Hertfordshire and West Essex Integrated Care Board (HWE ICB) was established on 1st July 2022 and serves a population of approximately 1.6m. The Authority works closely with its system partners to improve the health and wellbeing of our local communities. Services can be commissioned at 'place' level or across the wider ICB. The service will be commissioned across South and West Hertfordshire place (previously the area covered by Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group). The community iMSK service aims to improve, support, manage and coordinate MSK needs and conditions delivered across primary and community care, but with access to expertise in secondary care for advice, collaboration and onward referral when required. The objectives of the proposed service are: * Provide a General Practice-based Service (wherever the General Practice estate allows), directly accessible to GPs in their practices. * Improve the MSK health of the South and West Herts population by delivering support and education events. * Promote prevention of MSK conditions, self-care/management, and support both patients and clinicians to make an informed decision in respect of treatment options. * Measurably improve: o Patient outcomes - for non-surgical interventions. o Patient experience. o Shared Decision Making. o Self-care. The full scope of services can be found within the specification contained within the Invitation to Tender pack within the named eTendering Portal. Potential providers should note that The Authority may wish to introduce additional services and / or expand the scope of the services during the lifetime of the contract ("Contract modification(s)"). Such contract modifications will be contemplated where additional requirements are similar and or complementary to the services already included in the Specification, at any given time. Such expansion would be by the addition of services commissioned by the Authority and / or other Contracting Authorities, as named in the Contract Notice. To this end, the Bidder should be aware that after the award of contract, there is a possibility that the successful Bidder may be offered a variation to the contract to include delivery of the services into the other 'places' within the boundary of The Authority, specifically West Essex place and/or East and North Hertfordshire place (as set out in the map provided within the procurement documents) in accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended The Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020). The value contained within this Notice is the aggregate value which is inclusive of all potential options and extensions. The value of the contract being offered for the scope of services identified within the initial tender for the 5-year contract period is PS25,000,000 (excluding VAT). This is the value by which the price evaluation will be undertaken. (The aggregate value of the contract (including extensions) is PS35,000,000 (excluding VAT). Additional information: The scope of the services fall within Section 7 of the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (as amended (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 etc.). Neither the inclusion of the Bidder selection stage nor the use of the terms Invitation to Tender shall be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to Schedule 3 of the Regulations. Options: Initial contract is for a 5-year period with the option to extend for a further 2-year period pending agreement by both parties. As set out within the description, the Authority may wish to introduce additional services / extend the scope of services within the life of the contract. This may include expanding the service across West Essex 'place' and East and North Hertfordshire 'place' to obtain a single service across the Authority's area. Renewal: Initial contract is for a 5-year period with the option to extend for a further 2-year period pending agreement by both parties. ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Find A Tender Service | | Latest notice | https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013428-2023 | | Notice type | Tender Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Services | | Procurement method | Open | | Procurement method details | Open procedure | | Tender suitability | Not specified | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Tender | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 11 May 2023 | | Submission deadline | 17 May 2023 | | Future notice date | Not specified | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | 31 Mar 2024 - 31 Mar 2029 | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | £35,000,000 | | Lots value | £35,000,000 | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Active | | Lots status | Active | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | HERTFORDSHIRE AND WEST ESSEX INTEGRATED CARE BOARD | | Locality | WELWYN GARDEN CITY | | Post town | St Albans | | Postcode | AL8 6JL | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLH East (England) | | ITL 2 | TLH2 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire | | ITL 3 | TLH26 North and East Hertfordshire | | Local authority | Welwyn Hatfield | | Electoral ward | Handside | | Westminster constituency | Welwyn Hatfield | | Delivery location | TLH23 Hertfordshire CC | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85100000 - Health services ## Release History - 11 May 2023 at 10:27 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013428-2023 - 10 May 2023 at 13:21 - TenderUpdate - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013328-2023 - 11 Apr 2023 at 15:53 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010397-2023 ## Notice URLs - https://attain.bravosolution.co.uk - https://hertsandwestessex.icb.nhs.uk ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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