Prior Information Notice - Private Patient Unit Market Engagement

Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (BTUH) is seeking to expand its private patient income to support the strategic development of NHS Services. The Trust currently holds a contract with Ramsey Healthcare Operations UK Ltd, for an eight (8) bed private patient service, specialising in Cardiac and Cardiothoracic Surgical activity.

BTUH needs to ensure that any future private patient contract offers the best value and potential for income generation, and is therefore planning to market test the contract for a private patient unit, together with the inclusion of the potential for a wider range of private patient services. Initial estimated timescales plan to begin activities in the latter part of 2016, with a view for contract and service commencement in the latter part of 2017.

BTUH wishes to engage the market to explore options of either appointing a provider for the existing requirement or for the possible expansion and development of private patients care facilities and income. Innovative solutions may be explored using existing infrastructure and/or the potential to develop alternate solutions.

The Trust shall not be committed to award any contract as a result of this PIN notice

Additional information: The Trust is planning to hold a market engagement event on Thursday 5th July 2016 at Basildon University Hospital. For more information, and to register your interest in attending the market engagement event, please register with Intend (the BTUH e-procurement tool):

1) Register your company on the Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital NHS FT In-tend portal (this is only required once) – Follow the link https://in-tendhost.co.uk/basildonandthurrock and click the ‘Register’ button. Complete all mandatory information and any supplementary information you wish. After completing registration, you will shortly receive an email with your login details

2) To Express Interest in a current opportunity and to confirm that you would like to attend the market engagement session, click the ‘Tenders’ button in the top toolbar. A list of current tenders will now be listed, to express interest in any of these you must first click ‘View details’ and then the ‘Express interest’ button on the bottom right of the screen. If you are not logged in at this point you will be required to in order to register your expression of interest.

3) Please ensure you register your interest by 17:00 (BST) on the 18th June 2016.

4) Once your expression of interest has been registered you will have access to use the ‘Correspondence’ tab to confirm that you wish to be included in the market engagement session. Please mark all correspondence for the attention of Philip Housden.

5) Further information will be available following the 2nd June, and will be sent to all registered interested parties, and will be sent via the Intend system only.

6) Please ensure that all communication regarding this opportunity is sent via the Correspondence function of the Intend System only. Any communication via any other means (verbal or written) cannot be accepted from the interested parties, and should not be taken as representative of BTUH’s requirement or opinions.