Contract Notice for Diabetic Eye Screening Programme related Procurement for Essex and East Anglia region

Duration of the contract: 5 years (+ 2 years possible extension subject to annual reviews)

Description of the procurement opportunity:

Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AG CSU), acting on behalf of the NHS England Midlands and East (The commissioners) invites bids from suitably qualified and experienced healthcare service providers including third sector organisations, social enterprise and other providers to provide Diabetic Eye Screening Programme (DESP) to Essex and East Anglia registered patients. NHS England Midlands and East (East) will be the contracting and commissioning authority for DESP. For ease of governance, the commissioners have split the geographic area served by them into 2 regions listed below and are looking to appoint a DESP service provider for each of these regions. 1. Essex 2. East Anglia (covering Suffolk, parts of East Cambridgeshire, parts of South and East Norfolk, Peterborough and majority of Cambridgeshire) The service provision will cater all ages suffering with diabetes and fulfil their need for regular eye screening. The current contracts for the DESP services will end on 31 March 2016 and as a result the successful provider is expected to be fully operational, providing services from 01 April 2016. Based on the current contract it is anticipated that the value of the contract will be as below#: 1. Essex - circa £1.880 million per annum 2. East Anglia - circa £2.102 million per annum For this service provision AG CSU would like to encourage innovative solutions including consortia, strategic alliances and sub-contracts which will deliver value for money and improved services to patients.

The service provider will be required to deliver an outcome based service.

The procurement tender relating to this contract notice will be administered / conducted via the AG CSU’s e-Tendering portal known as Bravo solutions. Providers wishing to bid for this opportunity must register with AG CSU’s e-Tendering portal by visiting following web link: https://gemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html (from middle of Aug 15 onwards this web link will be renamed to https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk) and submit their bids there. Full details regarding this procurement opportunity will be available there.

Once registered, providers must submit their bids by taking following steps: 1. Log in within the portal with the username/password, 2. Click on ‘View Current Opportunities’ sections. 3. Find appropriate project and click on it 4. Follow further instructions provided there

It is expected that the procurement opportunity will be advertised around 31 Jul 15.  Type of procurement procedure: The procurement will be conducted as on OJEU (Part B) Service Contract using the Open Procedure under the Public Contracts Regulations 2006.

For further information please look at the document attached with this notice.