Market Feedback Request - Specialist Fertility Services

NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AGCSU) on behalf of the Commissioner(s), NHS East and North Hertfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group (ENHCCG), NHS Herts Valleys Clinical Commissioning Group (HVCCG) and NHS West Essex Clinical Commissioning Group (WECCG), wish to request feedback from the market, in anticipation of a tender for Specialist Fertility Services being published in Spring 2020.

The CCGs wish to invite any interested party / Provider to submit their feedback, on the attached form, no later than 5pm 10th January 2020 by return to [email protected]. If this deadline is not possible, please get in touch with us as soon as possible, using the aforementioned email address.

The attached form has a series of questions about your current service(s) and services you could provide in the near future, as well as your experiences of providing these services and responding to tenders. We wish to learn as much as possible from expert Providers, so any constructive information is gratefully received. Please provide as much information and rationale as you are able to help inform the project; we may not be able to further investigate any points you make and therefore they must be substantiated in the feedback response. We also appreciate your co-operation and understanding regarding the use of information to help to inform a viable service specification and the requirement for Commissioners to evidence information gathering and how it informs any decisions made.

Please note the information you provide on this feedback form does not commit your organisation to bidding for any tenders, or the Commissioners to publish any tenders. Your information will be kept confidential wherever possible; however, please be aware your organisation details and any information you provide may be releasable under the Freedom of Information Act or any other stipulation of EU or UK law, used in designing and refining the commissioning/procurement process and/or used as evidence for a commissioning decision (as part of the audit trail).

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Additional information: Providers wishing to be able to Bid to for this anticipated opportunity will need to log onto AGCSUs procurement portal (EU-Supply) https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=UK and you are recommended to sign-up if you have not yet already. Please note, you will not see anything on the portal about this opportunity until the tender is published. All Providers who respond with a completed questionnaire or that provide an expression of interest via email, shall receive a courtesy email notifying them when the tender is live.

To register on the portal: » https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=UK » From the portal Home Page, click the "New Supplier Registration" link on the left if you have not registered before, or log in on the right if your organisation is already registered (please note the portal will not allow multiple registrations for the same organisation so if your company already has log in details, these must be utilised) » By registering, or logging in you are accepting the terms & conditions for using the portal

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Please note this notice does not commit the Commissioners to publishing any opportunity or procurement exercise, nor does it to any Provider Bidding for any such opportunity. The Commissioner reserves the right to withdraw this notice at any point and without warning.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank you in advance for your time and effort; please be assured it is much appreciated.