AQP - Care Home Beds for Eligable Fully Funded Continuing Healthcare Lincolnshire

This is an AQP advert published on behalf of the 4 Lincolnshire CCGs, Lincolnshire East & Lincolnshire West CCGs and South Lincolnshire and South West Lincolnshire CCGs to provide Continuing Health Care Services for Lincolnshire CCG’s registered patients ONLY for a term of up to 20 months from 1st December 2016 - 31th July 2018 to align with the current AQP. This is a repeat window of opportunity that allows for additional Lincolnshire Care Home registered providers ONLY to join the existing Any Qualified Provider list (the AQP service providers’ list has been running across the East Midlands since 2011) and provides NHS Continuing Health Care (CHC) services. Please Note: The providers who are already on the existing AQP list do not need to re-apply. The AQP process focuses on new, fully-funded packages of care for patients. This includes patients with Physical Disabilities, Learning Disabilities, Mental Health (including Dementia), Brain Injury and End of Life Care, for specified age groups 'under 65' & '65 and over'. The Lincolnshire CCG Commissioners would like to encourage providers to apply to supply to the Lincolnshire CCGs only. Any provider will be eligible to join the Qualified Provider list as long as they can demonstrate competency against the specified criteria. As a Qualified Provider there are no guaranteed levels of activity and payment is made based on actual provision and the Lincolnshire tariff applicable. All providers who wish to apply must do so by completing the Qualification Questionnaire and Technical Questionnaire which can be accessed through BravoSolution. Providers should read the Qualification Information document and all other supporting documents, available for download on Bravo. An electronic tendering tool is being used for this procurement. Interested parties should access the portal: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html. The ITT reference is itt 516 for AQP (Window 1) Care Home Beds for Eligible Fully Funded Continuing Healthcare

Additional information: Additional CPV code 85144100.

Parent company or other guarantees, bonds, deposits, insurance or other forms of security may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to tender for further details.

The Contracting Authority reserves the right to require groupings of Contractors to take a particular legal or to require one party to undertake primary legal liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise. The services to which this notice relates fall within Light Touch Regime of the Public Services Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) ('the Regulations'). Neither the publication of this notice nor the employment of any particular terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authorities intend to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to the procurement of Light Touch services. These opportunities may be divided into lots. Please see published documentation for further detail. Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender: 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once) — Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register— Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue' — Enter your correct business and user details —Note the user-name you chose and click ‘Save' when complete — You will shortly receive an e-mail with your unique password (please keep this secure) 2. Express an Interest in the tender — Login to the portal with the user-name/password — Click the ‘PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers' link. (These are Pre-Qualification Questionnaires or Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier) — Click on the relevant PQQ/ ITT to access the content. — Click the ‘Express Interest' button at the top of the page. — This will move the PQQ /ITT into your ‘My PQQs/ My ITTs' page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only) — You can now access any attachments by clicking ‘Buyer Attachments' in the ‘PQQ/ ITT Details' box 3. Responding to the tender — Click ‘My Response' under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details', you can choose to ‘Create Response' or to ‘Decline to Respond' (please give a reason if declining) — You can now use the ‘Messages' function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification — Note the deadline for completion, then follow the on-screen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT — There may be a mixture of on-line and off-line actions for you to perform (there is detailed on-line help available) You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response' button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the on-line help, or contact the eTendering helpdesk