Greater Nottingham Community Gynaecology Service

Interested parties should note that this Notice is a Prior Information Notice (PIN), and is not the commencement of a formal tender process. Any formal tender process will be commenced through an entirely separate Notice, which interested providers will need to separately express interest in. The purpose of this PIN is to ready the market for a potential procurement, and to support a vibrant competition. To that end, a draft specification and Memorandum of Information are supplied with this Notice.

Greater Nottingham Clinical Commissioning Partnership is considering procuring a Community Gynaecology Service for patients in Nottingham City, Nottingham North and East, Nottingham West and Rushcliffe Clinical Commissioning Groups.

The overall aim of this proposed procurement is to reduce secondary care activity, clinical variation in referral behaviour and improve patient experience. The requirement will be a consultant led service that provides clinical triage of all gynaecology routine referrals.

The expectation is that all patients with a routine gynaecology referral will be referred to the community gynaecology service for triage/treatment (and advice and guidance if applicable). Patients will only be referred to secondary care where there is a definite need for hospital based specialist services. The community gynaecology service will provide a single point of access for service users and health professionals and provide a multi-skilled approach to assessment, diagnosis and treatment to the management of gynaecological conditions. The conditions that the community gynaecology service will see will include, but not be limited to: • Menstrual disorders (excluding post-menopausal bleeding) • Fibroids • Cervical polyps • Polycystic ovarian syndrome • Pelvic pain • Ovarian cysts • Prolapse • Sterilisation requests • Vulval disorders • prolapse/pessary changes • Menopause problems /severe premenstrual syndrome • Dyspareunia The Contract value is anticipated to be circa £590k pa and it is envisaged that a contract will be let for circa 33 months with a possible extension of any period (or periods) up to a further 24 months, as defined at the discretion of the Commissioner. Services are planned to commence from 01/07/19.

This proposed procurement will be carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners. Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the 'current tenders' list on the e-procurement portal (In-tend). https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home

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 Greater Nottingham Clinical Commissioning Partnership or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. NHS Greater Nottingham Clinical Commissioning Partnership will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise.

Interested providers will be able to view this engagement notice via the 'current tenders' list on in-tend. https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home

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The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).

Any tendering process will be conducted in accordance with the requirements and flexibilities provided by Articles 74 to 76 of the Directive, and Regulations 74 to 76 of the Regulations. The Authority will run a transparent tender process, treating all Bidders equally. For the avoidance of doubt, the Authority will not be bound by the Regulations or the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these Services.