Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group - Anti Coagulation Services (MEE)

Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group is exploring options on how to re-commission their Anti coagulation Services as the current contract is due to expire in 2020.

The service covers an anticoagulation service for Bucks patients based at PCN level with direct access to the patient record which is likely to include:

• Initiation, management and monitoring of warfarin • Shared management of LMWH and the provision of bridging therapy when required • Management of complex patients requiring anticoagulation with support from the specialist service • Management of housebound patients • Provision of virtual clinics, and an advice and guidance service to support primary care mange more complex patients • Regular audit • The delivery of a short term transitional quality improvement programme to ensure primary care can provide the safe initiation, prescribing and monitoring of DOACs on an ongoing basis

The full service scope is in the process of being defined and the Commissioner will be holding Market Engagement Event (MEE) with the aim of:

• Engage with providers and facilitate providers networking with each other • Understanding the interest there might be in providing such a service from suitably qualified providers • Informing the commissioning process • Gathering information from stakeholders who may be used to shape the tender process and documentation

To register for the MEE that will be held on Thursday 3rd October 2019 please complete the Market Sounding Questionnaire attached to this Notice and return to [email protected] by 12 noon on Monday 30th September 2019. Further information on the event will be provided to registered organisations.

In the event you are unable to attend but would like to receive a copy of any presentation materials, please complete the provider sounding questionnaire and email it to [email protected] and copies of the presentation material will be sent to you.

An expression of interest to attend this MEE is no indication of a commitment to participate in any future tender process nor does it infer any special status on those Providers who do attend. An expression of interest in this event will not automatically entitle involvement in any future procurement exercise. Any procurement conducted subsequent to the event will be advertised separately and all organisations wanting to participate will need to respond to the procurement advertisement as and when it is published.

Providers who do not attend this MEE will still be able to apply for the Procurement in the future. Please note that this MEE does not represent a formal stage in the procurement process and attendance will play no part in any subsequent evaluation process.

This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.

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 NHS Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. Commissioners are looking to establish what interest there might be in providing such a service from suitably qualified, capable and competent organisations.

NHS Buckinghamshire Clinical Commissioning Group 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.