Community Dermatology - NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB

NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) is working on behalf of NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB). This invitation to tender is to deliver Community Dermatology across Lancashire and South Cumbria.

The objective of this Community Dermatology Service is to develop a single point of referral One-Stop service for patients with Dermatological presentation. To ensure that patients within the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB population receive the right care, delivered in the right place, by the right person, the first time. Ensuring appropriately tiered care provision through effective triage and referral optimisation. The provider will be expected to support ICB led service development and innovation through tele dermatology and digital triage solutions, integrating with acute and primary care providers to offer a seamless dermatology triage and treatment service in Lancashire & South Cumbria.

Within this existing provision, the service includes children under 16yrs of age in Morecambe Bay, Central Lancashire and Pennine, with the exception of surgical procedures which must be referred to Secondary Care. Further to standardising care, the ICB Commissioning Team will continue to review the variation in provision for children with the existing services, as such the future provider may be asked to open up referrals to children under 16yrs of age for non-surgical care in those areas across Lancashire and South Cumbria where the service is not currently offered

The ITT will be live on Friday 3rd March 2023 on the MLCSU Bravo portal (see below) & it will have a deadline for submissions on Friday 31st March 2023 12:00pm Mid-day. The deadline for clarification questions is Monday 20th March 12:00pm.

The contract is for 2 years with an option to extend for 1 years. As part of this procurement process, the Authority is intending to identify one provider to deliver a Community Dermatology Service across the whole Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB.

The Commissioner reserves the right to reject bids that exceed the indicated budget.

Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body.

The Indicative Financial Cost Envelope for this service (based on 100% activity) is £15,076,592 for 3 years (2 years + 1 year optional extension). Year 1 = £4,590,907. Year 2 = 5,124,960. Possible Year 3 is 5,360,725.

Interested providers are guided to the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk to register their interest & gain access to this procurement's documents & more specific information.

The relevant ITT reference number for this is ITT_996 and the questionnaire will be located within this ITT.

Additional information: This procurement is for Social and other specific services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations') http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made. Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents. As the ICB is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement. Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these. Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the tender process.