PIN for the Provision of a Special Allocation Scheme for NHS Bristol, North Somerset, and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board

NHS Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (herein referred to as BNSSG ICB) is considering a procurement exercise for the provision of a Special Allocation Scheme. The Special Allocation Scheme will provide services to those patients who have been removed from their registered Practice due to demonstrating behaviours that are unsafe for management in a usual Primary Care setting.

Please see attached word document for full outline service description.

BNSSG ICB recognise the importance of strong primary care at the heart of our integrated care systems and are keen to engage with Providers who can demonstrate a willingness to deliver key design principles and equity of service offer e.g. improving access and promoting prevention and self-care, as part of core service delivery and using digital channels to provide health care online consultations.

This process is being managed by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit on behalf of BNSSG ICB.

If you are interested in this opportunity and would like to express interest, please register at https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome Please address all communication for the attention of Mark Stanbrook, Lead Senior Procurement Manager (South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit).

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 BNSSG ICB or NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Unit or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. This notice is to establish what interest there might be in providing such a service from suitably qualified, capable and competent organisations.

BNSSG ICB or NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Unit or respondents 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 commissioners will consider in due course.

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

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).

The services are deemed to be subject to the full regime of current EU procurement legislation and as such this tender will be conducted in accordance with, and governed by, the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This contract will therefore be awarded in accordance with the provisions applicable in Section 5 (sub-section 7) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.