Provision of a Local Care Organisation for the City of Manchester

This opportunity is for a contract holder for a 'Local Care Organisation' (LCO) for a range of out of hospital health and care services for Manchester. The LCO is envisaged to operate through a 'neighbourhood model', with emphasis upon: local population health & prevention of ill health; connecting to community assets & building upon people's strengths and self-management skills; and targeted care support people's needs particularly as needs change and become more complex. The LCO will therefore have a critical coordination and cooperation role with system partners in order to contribute to substantial system financial pressures. To do this they will need to deliver sustainable, high quality, safe and affordable prevention, primary, community, secondary health & social care services, through a blend of direct and sub-contracted provision. Commissioners seek responses from interested Providers who wish to deliver the Services as set out in the Prospectus.

Over time, some services currently provided in the acute sector may be transferred to the LCO; commissioning intentions may result in the transfer of some low acuity, non-surgical (or non-complex surgical) services, into the LCO from year three (2020/21) at the earliest, and possibly thereafter over the contract term.

Commissioners seek responses from interested Providers who wish to deliver the Services as set out in the Prospectus: i.e. a LCO for the population of Manchester with the aim of bringing together a range of health, social care and public health services to be delivered in the community.

Interested Providers must complete and submit a Qualification Questionnaire (QQ). Providers are asked to indicate their proposed bidding model in response to their QQ. Full details of this can be found in the Bidder Instruction Document. Further details can be found at https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com/

The estimated total contract value for the ten year contract term is £5,900,000,000.

The contract will be awarded without further advertisement of this opportunity and there will be no further opportunity to express interest.

A Bidder Information Event will take place on Thursday 30th March 9.30-10.30am. All interested parties should register on EU Supply and email Laura Davies through the messaging facility to confirm attendees and register to attend. A maximum of 2 representatives per organisation. The Event will take place at The Irish Centre, 1 Irish Town Way, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, M8 0RY https://www.iwhc.com/contact Any questions that you wish to raise at this event should be submitted in advance via the EU Supply messaging facility. The deadline for submission of questions is Friday 24th March 12 noon.