UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (GICB) has undertaken a competitive procurement process to commission an Out of Hospital Service in Gloucestershire. This service offers short term practical solutions to facilitate a return home from hospital. As well as supporting individuals to adjust and regain confidence as they recover. The service will also offer longer term support through relevant community networks and resources of the provider or by contact with VCS groups and networks. The service will act as single point of access and triage for assisted discharge support for discharge. It will ensure Service users are settled in safely at home after a spell in hospital and support service users to become independent at home again. The service should contribute to the reduction of hospital re-admissions.

NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board awarded a contract pursuant to NHS England's Health Systems Support Framework for the provision of shared care records to Orion Health Limited in March 2023 (the Contract). In accordance with Annex 4 of the Contract (the Implementation Plan), the system was due to go live in September 2023 and the Deliverables were required to be delivered by the Long Stop Date of 15 October 2023. The parties have agreed to extend the deadline of the Long Stop Date to 15 October 2024 and made additional amendments to the Contract as explained below.

NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (GICB) seeks expressions of interest from suitably qualified organisations that have the necessary capability and capacity to provide Primary Medical Care Services at Drybrook Surgery in Gloucestershire. The practice's registered list size as of 21.6.2023 is 3,636 patients. Drybrook Surgery requires the provision of innovative services to meet the needs of the population. There will need to be an appropriate skill mix of staff will be required to deliver the contractual requirements. This is likely to include General practitioners, advanced clinical practitioners who can treat and manage acute illnesses, a nursing team who can deliver treatment room care and long-term condition management, non-clinical staff who can actively sign post and support patients with accessing primary care services and management of administrative tasks. The contract holder will be a member of the Forest of Dean (FOD) Primary Care Network (PCN) and so will also have access to ARRS resources of which the PCN are responsible for employing and workings with practices to utilise the additional role staff skill mix. NHS Gloucestershire ICB is seeking to enter into a contract with the preferred bidder for an initial period of 5-years with an option to extend for a further 3-year period. NHS Gloucestershire ICB expects that the service provided will represent value for money. The successful bidder will receive an estimated annual contract value of £665,000 per annum for the contract period (including the 3-year extension option). Organisations interested in providing this service should register on the In-Tend e-procurement portal (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/gloucestershireccg) and express interest no later than 5pm, Friday 7 July 2023. Associated Invitation to Tender (ITT) documentation will then be made available for bidding organisations to access. Completed ITT submissions must be returned via the In-Tend portal no later than noon, Monday 17 July 2023.

Paediatric Palliative Care provides palliative care to children and young people (and their families) with either life-limiting or life-threatening conditions who are considered unlikely to reach their 18th birthday.

Provision of Community Urology Services.

This notice relates to the award of a public contract for GP primary care services under the negotiated procedure without prior publication. The contract is subject to the provisions of Part 2, Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the PCR") (the Light Regime). NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board ("the ICB") has an existing General Medical Services (GMS) contract in place for delivery of GP services at what is known as the Upper Thames Medical Group practice (covering two GP surgeries, one in Cirencester and one in Lechlade). The current partners of the provider of the GMS contract, Inspire Healthcare Partnership ("Inspire"), identified inherent financial challenges and inefficiencies of running two surgeries across two sites. The provider is in financial difficulty and ICB investment in improvement and transformation is required in order for the practice to remain viable. That investment cannot be provided via the existing GMS contract. Due to exceptional circumstances in relation to this contract, the ICB has taken the decision to end the existing GMS contract and award Inspire a new Alternative Provider Medical Services ("APMS") contract which provides for a financial premium, linked to KPIs to enable transformation, to Inspire for delivery of the GP services at the Upper Thames Medical Group practice. This will ensure that service continuity is maintained for patients. Competition is absent because the services for patients to be provided by Inspire under the APMS contract are the same as those they provided under the GMS contract and only Inspire is in a position to continue delivery of those services without disruption. The ICB is accordingly awarding the contract by negotiated procedure without prior publication, under regulation 32(2)(b) of the Public Contract Regulations 2015.

Anonymous Drop-in Support Service for Children and Young People in Gloucestershire.

This service will provide an ophthalmology service for new referrals, providing consultant led pathways of care. Patients will be seen within the required Referral to Treatment timescales and where a follow-up appointment is required for on-going management, these will be within national guidance and service standards (the service provided will reflect NICE guidance) by appropriately qualified, service competent clinical practitioners. Ensuring that the service does not adversely impact the ability to deliver local comprehensive Ophthalmology services.

Provision of Pain Management Services.

NHS Gloucestershire ICB ("the ICB") held a General Medical Services (GMS) contract ("the Westbury Surgery Contract") with G Doc Ltd (patient list size circa 3,100) for the provision of primary care services from Westbury Surgery, Westbury. The ICB also holds another GMS contract ("the Forest Health Care Contract") with the Partners of Forest Health Care (patient list size circa 8,370) for the provision of primary care services from Forest Health Care Surgery, Cinderford. The Westbury Contract had become unviable as a standalone contract. The ICB therefore decided to terminate the Westbury Contract and incorporate the Westbury patient list into the Forest Health Care Contract by way of variation to the Forest Health Care Contract. The Westbury Surgery is now a branch surgery of the Forest Health Care Surgery. The Forest Health Care Contract is subject to the provisions of Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the PCR"). The ICB has relied on PCR 72(1)(b) to effect a permitted variation to the Forest Health Care Contract to incorporate the Westbury Surgery as a branch surgery. The variation took effect on 1 August 2023.

Provision of a Low Vision Service.

NHS Gloucestershire Integrated Care Board (GICB) sought expressions of interest from suitably qualified organisations that had the necessary capability and capacity to provide Sexual Assault and Abuse Therapies Services for Adults (18 and over) and Children under 9 (0-8-year-olds) in Gloucestershire. The provision was offered on the basis of the following Lots: Lot 1 - Sexual Assault and Abuse Therapeutic Services for Adults (18 and over) Lot 2 - Sexual Assault and Abuse Therapeutic Services for Children under 9 (0-8-year-olds) Providers could have bid for:  Either of the Lots individually, or  Both Lots. NHS Gloucestershire ICB has entered into contracts with the preferred bidders for an initial period of 3-years, with an option to extend for a further 2-year period, and these commenced on 1 August 2025.

Provision of Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) Hubs.

Provision of Neurology Outpatient Services for Adults.

Provision of Elective Outpatient, Inpatient and Daycase Services.

Provision of Direct Access MRI and CT Services.

Provision of Elective Inpatient and Daycare Services.

Provision of Community Vasectomy Services in Gloucestershire.