UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

This is a Design Build and Operate Scheme Trust intends to utilise REIT - Real Estate Investment Trust. Council Regeneration scheme being led by PA Housing and there is a planning obligation to provide shell and core healthcare space.

North West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) seeks the views of Providers in commissioning for the provision of local community beds (step-up, step-down rehabilitation) for a wide range of conditions which are located in acute, intermediate care and community facilities. The aim of the service is to provide medical, nursing, and therapeutic inpatient rehabilitation for patients that are registered with a North West London GP. <br/> <br/>The objective is to provide multidisciplinary assessments of patients from the local Trust and discharge patients to the most appropriate setting via the trusted assessor team based at Northwick Park Hospital.

North West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) seeks the views of Providers in commissioning for the provision of local community beds (step-up, step-down rehabilitation) for a wide range of conditions which are located in acute, intermediate care and community facilities. The aim of the service is to provide medical, nursing, and therapeutic inpatient rehabilitation for patients that are registered with a North West London GP. <br/> <br/>The objective is to provide multidisciplinary assessments of patients from the local Trust and discharge patients to the most appropriate setting via the trusted assessor team based at Northwick Park Hospital.

North West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) seeks the views of Providers in commissioning for the provision of local community beds (step-up, step-down rehabilitation) for a wide range of conditions which are located in acute, intermediate care and community facilities. The aim of the service is to provide medical, nursing, and therapeutic inpatient rehabilitation for patients that are registered with a North West London GP. <br/> <br/>The objective is to provide multidisciplinary assessments of patients from the local Trust and discharge patients to the most appropriate setting via the trusted assessor team based at Northwick Park Hospital.

North West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) seeks the views of Providers in commissioning for the provision of local community beds (step-up, step-down rehabilitation) for a wide range of conditions which are located in acute, intermediate care and community facilities. The aim of the service is to provide medical, nursing, and therapeutic inpatient rehabilitation for patients that are registered with a North West London GP. <br/> <br/>The objective is to provide multidisciplinary assessments of patients from the local Trust and discharge patients to the most appropriate setting via the trusted assessor team based at Northwick Park Hospital.

North West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) seeks the views of Providers in commissioning for the provision of local community beds (step-up, step-down rehabilitation) for a wide range of conditions which are located in acute, intermediate care and community facilities. The aim of the service is to provide medical, nursing, and therapeutic inpatient rehabilitation for patients that are registered with a North West London GP. <br/> <br/>The objective is to provide multidisciplinary assessments of patients from the local Trust and discharge patients to the most appropriate setting via the trusted assessor team based at Northwick Park Hospital.

North West London Integrated Care Board (ICB) seeks the views of Providers in providing holistic integrated care that meets the needs of patients with Long-Term Conditions and Complex Needs in West London.

NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (the “ICB) is intending to commission Adult Community Specialist Palliative Care Services (CSPC), for the provision of Community Specialist Palliative and End Life Care Services for adults (18+) living with progressive life limiting/ terminal conditions with or without co-morbidities for a proposed contract term of between 12 to 36 months (the “Proposed Contract”). <br/><br/>Adult CSPC services are part of a larger group of services that support people at the end-of-life. They operate to support people away from hospital and are geared toward people who have complex and specialist needs that cannot be met by general services alone, such as general practice and community nursing. Instead, people with complex needs are cared for by a network of services which are staffed by clinician’s and teams who have specialist skills and training in palliative care.<br/><br/>These services are currently being delivered by Harlington Hospice, St John’s Hospice, St Luke’s Hospice, Royal Trinity Hospice, Marie Curie London Nursing Services, Meadow House Hospice (provided by London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust ), Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust and Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust. <br/><br/>The ICB is of the view that the services described are capable of being provided only by the providers mentioned in this notice, and are not aware of other providers who can deliver the required level or care and services at the current tariffs and who have estates in the areas where services need to be delivered. <br/><br/>The described charitable hospice services are partially funded by the service providers including charitable contributions. The funding envelope available is based on continuation of charitable funding to support delivery of specialist palliative care services, in line with the stated aims of the charitable hospice sector. <br/><br/>For a provider to be able to apply, they need to be able to demonstrate that they have the appropriate estates (i.e. hospice inpatient unit facilities), are specialist palliative care providers with the necessary specialist workforce in line with the description of the procurement. The model of care outlines the common provision of CPSC service in all eight boroughs in North West London: <br/><br/>1. Care at home (adult community specialist palliative care nursing teams, hospice at home and 24/7 specialist telephone advice)<br/>2. Community specialist inpatient beds (hospice inpatient beds, enhanced end-of-life care (EoLC) beds)<br/>3. Hospice outpatients (including lymphoedema, psychological and bereavement services), hospice day care and wellbeing services.

This is for a Prior Information Notice to inform interested parties of NHS North West London ICB's intention to open a tender for an Optometry Led Community Eye Care Service for North West London. This procurement will be under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 - Competitive Process.

This is a notice to generate market engagement in relation to a proposed contract for Community Response Services for Hounslow with a maximum term of 18 months (the “Proposed Contract”). NHS North West London ICB (the “ICB”) considers that the Most Suitable Provider Process under the Provider Selection Regime may be the appropriate route to award the Proposed Contract but invites any provider who believes they are capable of delivering the services under the Proposed Contract to register their interest. The ICB will then engage with interested providers to inform its award route for the Proposed Contract.

This is for a Market Engagement Event to inform interested parties of NHS North West London ICB's intentions to open a tender for a Suicide Postvention Services for North West London (subject to ICB Governance Process and Approval)

NWL ICS is seeking to design, develop, and procure new technologies and capabilities that are required to help modernise their 'back office' procurement and finance systems. The programme aims to deliver a high quality, and good value, system and support service to help streamline the transactions and activities that underpin the way Finance & Procurement capabilities operate. The following principles are agreed by NWL CFOs: • Consolidation of transactional services across NWL, supported by a single general ledger and finance and procurement system • Agreement to consolidate outsourced contracts across organisations where contracts allow • The migration to a single consolidated system across NWL for finance and procurement system. The programme will act as a key enabler for change within the Corporate Service landscape, modernising technology, accelerating transition to cloud, replacing end-of-life technology and consolidating existing arrangements within each NHS Trust to deliver substantial cashable and non-cashable benefits for the cluster The new shared service will have a focus on convergence across data, policies and processes, enabled by a scalable system, paving the way for increasing interoperability across the ICS and wider Healthcare system, with the procurement bringing together : - 100+ finance & procurement users based across North West London - 3 primary finance service providers or software solutions, a range of procurement systems and a plethora of other systems and tools across 7 NHS organisations varying in maturity, service provision and position. Further information, including details of how to respond to a Request for Information (RFI) as part of Pre-Market Engagement, can be found at the end of this Notice. ***IMPORTANT*** Further information, including details of how to respond to a Request for Information (RFI) as part of Pre-Market Engagement, can be found within NWLPS published PIN via FTS - see URL below: https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/033525-2023 To Register on NHS North West London's eHealth Family Single eCommercial System (Atamis), please visit the following (further information can be found within the published PIN, details above) - see URL below: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ***RESPONSE DEADLINE IS 01/12/2023 12.00*** Additional information: IT services: consulting, software development, Internet and support - 72000000

This is a Market Engagement exercise for a Community Adult Audiology service which will include the provision of hearing aids for age related hearing loss (non complex) in-line with national guidance (NICE) and local requirements

NHS North West London requires the provision of Wheelchair services and would like to invite any interested suppliers to a market engagement event on 5th September 2023, from 12:30 – 13:30 via MS teams.<br/> <br/>The objective of this engagement is to help the commissioner finalise the service model, procurement strategy, and financial model.<br/> <br/>Email devesh.panchal@nhs.net by 17:00, 1st September 2023 to register.<br/> <br/>Market Engagement<br/><br/>The aim of the service is to provide a comprehensive quality service of assessment, supply and maintenance/repair of wheelchairs and associated seating equipment for users who are registered with a GP in NWL ICB encompassing the following elements:<br/>1. Equipment provision and maintenance<br/>2. Repairs<br/>3. Planned preventative maintenance (PPM) of powered and Manual chairs<br/>4. Staffing<br/> <br/> <br/>The Service will provide:<br/>-Assessment, prescription and provision of manual and powered wheelchairs, and associated postural accessories;<br/>-Repair and maintenance services; and<br/>-Rehabilitation engineering services<br/> <br/> <br/>The service will deliver the following key elements:<br/>-Provision of the wheelchair and associated equipment within agreed timescales to the Service User;<br/>-Provision of on-going support and advice to Service Users (or carers if appropriate) in the use of their wheelchair and seating;<br/>-Maintenance of equipment, emergency repairs, planned preventative maintenance, storage of wheelchairs, collections, deliveries and service for re-issue of wheelchairs and associated postural seating equipment;<br/>-Accurate and up to date information on wheelchair availability and variety;<br/>-Accurate and up to date records on assessment, provision, re-assessment, discharges, repairs & maintenance, collection, recycled and decontamination & decommissioned wheelchairs;<br/>-Cost and operational efficiencies through effectively managing stock and service delivery for the Service Users.

NHS NW London ICB is considering procuring a contract for the provision of Medicines Management Prescribing Decision Support System services in North West London. The aim of the service is to provide service users access to a Prescribing Decision Support System (PDSS) which supports the increased effectiveness, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing in general practices. The purpose of this PIN is to invite interested providers to an online engagement event on Thursday 3rd August 2023 to introduce the likely delivery requirements, and invite a two way conversation to develop ideas on the design and delivery of the proposed approach. Email kbouwer@ecovategroup.com by 17:00, 2nd August 2023 to register. Requirements of the decision support systems could include: • Computerised support to increase the effectiveness, safety and cost effectiveness of prescribing and that works well with TPP SystmOne, EMIS Web or equivalent. • Available as a complete off the shelf package system (COTS) with minimal customisation except for the loading of profiles and associated adjustments. • Provides clear and concise suggestions of more effective, safer or cost effective medicines early in the process when a prescriber has begun to prescribe a medicine that is deemed likely to be a suboptimal choice, taking into account relevant national guidance. • Enables prescribers to switch easily to the suggested medicine, at an appropriate dose and frequency if the switch suggestion is accepted. • Enables efficient management of the profile of switch suggestions and messages displayed, adding and deleting suggestions and messages, deciding whether to switch specific suggestions on or off, and refining the content of messages the system displays to prescribers. • Allows the switch profile to be updated centrally and remotely for all user practices (i.e. visits to practices not required). • Generates Reports to include: - net savings or increases of prescribing expenditure - acceptance and rejection rates for individual switch suggestions and for the aggregated total of switch suggestions - rates of prescribing for formulary and non-formulary medicines - reasons for prescribers' rejection of individual switch suggestions where recorded • Training for the use of the available functionality in Medicines Optimisation available for medicines management teams • Customer support desk • Any other innovative elements Additional information: The Integrated Care Board in North West London (NW London) is called NHS North West London Integrated Care Board. It is the statutory NHS organisation responsible for developing a plan for meeting the health needs of the population, managing the NHS budget and arranging for the provision of health services in NW London. Now ICBs are legally established, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) have been abolished. The Authority serves a population of over 2.5 million people who live across the eight boroughs of North West London. Whilst the ICB considers its procurement options for these services going forward, it may extend its arrangements with the current provider until a new contract is awarded.

NHS NW London ICB is considering procuring a contract for the provision of medicine management tools to optimise prescribing and medicine related care to patients. The aim of the service is to provide NHS North West London ICB Medicines Management team with access to reliable, trusted, evidence-based support and resources and tools that improve medicines-related care to patients. NHS NW London ICB currently has an arrangement in place with PrescQIPP CIC to deliver the above services. PrescQIPP CIC is an NHS funded not-for-profit organisation that supports quality, optimised prescribing for patients. With subscriber input and collaboration across NHS organisation, the platform provides system wide support across the ICB and it's ICS members to benefit from insightful resource provision. The purpose of this notice is to be transparent about NHS NW London's intention to explore options to procure this service and to undertake a further competition, if possible. NHS NW London ICB is currently of the view that this is a niche service and PrescQIPP CIC is the only capable provider that is best placed to successfully deliver this service. As such, should PrescQIPP CIC be the only capable provider, it is NHS NW London ICB's intention to award a further contract (NHS Standard contract-short form) to PrescQIPP CIC from 1st October 2023 for up to 2 years and 6 months (estimated value, £65,500.00 per annum). Key Service Requirements include: • An NHS resource that provides data and evidence-based resources that supports the MM Team in their delivery of efficiencies as well as optimising medicine use within primary care and ensuring that prescribing is of high-quality and as safe as possible. • Examples of the above include: - Webkits (with practical tools and materials such as patient information and letters, pathways and audits) - Bulletins and briefings (with clinical evidence, information and guidance about a range of treatments and conditions) - Data and analysis (to help commissioners benchmark their activity and identify where they can make the biggest difference) - Clinical webinars (to support learning on a variety of relevant topics) - Clinical masterclasses - Horizon scanning - Primary care rebates • An ISO 9001: 2015 certified organisation that is also registered with the BSI. Capable providers may come forward by 17:00 on 9th August 2023 to engage with the ICB via nhsnwl.contracting@nhs.net - In your response to this opportunity, in up to 500 words, kindly demonstrate and describe ready and available solution that meets the set out key requirements above. The NHS NW London ICB is committed to assess the needs of the service users and consider how (if relevant) it needs to secure the needs of the people who use the services, and improve the quality and efficiency in the provision of the services including through the services being provided in an integrated way.

NHS North West London requires the provision of health screening and GP registration services for asylum seekers residing in Interim Accommodation Centres (IACs) across North West London boroughs. This is in order to: • Provide timely access to healthcare for vulnerable populations. • To provide equity of access to healthcare across all NW London Boroughs for asylum seekers. • Continue to build an accurate picture of health and wellbeing needs of this cohort. • To reduce acute systems pressures in the system by the demand of the hotels utilising acute settings for routine primary care challenges. Key service requirements include: • To provide a 30 minute face to face health screening assessment with a GP within 15 working days of arrival; assessing communicable disease risk and status, wider health and wellbeing, mental health, medications. • To register the patient with a local practice. • To be able to offer patients ongoing GMS care including but not limited to: - Immunisation catch up (for all ages). - Onward referral to wider services. - To ensure that asylum seekers are accessing all services under PCN DES and wider LES provision. • To provide outreach clinics where possible on site in the hotels for screening. This would be to service approximately 7500 service users residing in at least 45 premises located across all eight (8) NW London boroughs, with the current highest concentrations in Hounslow and Hillingdon. NHS North West London currently has contract arrangements in place with Primary Care Networks (PCNs) where services are delivered at scale through NHS Standard Contracts. The contract term expires on 31st March 2028. The purpose of this PIN is to be transparent about NHS North West London ICB's intentions to include the services set out above within current PCN arrangements from September 2023 onwards (the estimated value in year 1 is £817,400). This would be a network-based contract, in order to map against and integrate with the work that is already happening at neighbourhood level to tackle health inequalities; this could mean there could be multiple providers even within one health borough location. The ICB is committed to assessing the needs of the service users and considering how it should meet those needs, and improving the quality, efficiency and integration of services. NHS North West London is of the view that the PCNs in the 8 boroughs of North West London are best placed to deliver these services because this provider group has access to the registered list of patients, can proactively identify patients, provide continuity of care and has access to the entire patient medical record. This will enable continuity of care and provide services at a location closer to patients' home. In the absence of capable providers coming forward by 17:00, 11th August 2023, the ICB intends to formalise the contract arrangements set out above.

NHS North West London requires the provision of health screening and GP registration services for asylum seekers residing in Interim Accommodation Centres (IACs) across North West London boroughs.<br/><br/>This would be to service approximately 7500 service users residing in at least 45 premises located across all eight (8) NW London boroughs, with the current highest concentrations in Hounslow and Hillingdon. <br/><br/>NHS North West London currently has contract arrangements in place with Primary Care Networks (PCNs) where services are delivered at scale through NHS Standard Contracts. The contract term expires on 31st March 2028. <br/><br/>The purpose of this PIN is to be transparent about NHS North West London ICB’s intentions to include the services set out above within current PCN arrangements from September 2023 onwards (the estimated value in year 1 is £817,400).<br/><br/>NHS North West London is of the view that the PCNs in the 8 boroughs of North West London are best placed to deliver these services because this provider group has access to the registered list of patients, can proactively identify patients, provide continuity of care and has access to the entire patient medical record. This will enable continuity of care and provide services at a location closer to patients’ home.<br/> <br/>In the absence of capable providers coming forward by 17:00, 11th August 2023, the ICB intends to formalise the contract arrangements set out above.

NHS North West London ICB requires immediate provision of Severe Mental Illness - Health Check, Vaccination, & Screening Support services the borough of Hillingdon. The service is delivered through a Social Prescriber Link Worker (SPLW) who work's across 6 primary care networks supporting with engagement of SMI patients through outreach work. The SPLW work's closely with GP practices & other providers to identify appropriate patients specifically those from black & minority ethnic groups who need more intensive support. The provider will also support with educating practice staff & helping to promote local mental health trainings. NHS NW London ICB currently has an arrangement in place with The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC to deliver the above services. This notice is to be transparent about the intention to award a further contract (NHS Standard contract-short form) to The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC from 1st July 2023 until 31st March 2024 (estimated value of £47,603). Success of the service is linked to close partnership working & integration with the wider pathway of services in Hillingdon. As such close partnership working & a multi-disciplinary approach will be needed, NHS NW London ICB is of the view that The Confederation, Hillingdon CIC is best placed to deliver the service. Objectives: -Enable patients to be engaged with in an environment that is more familiar & comfortable to them. -Better understanding of patient's cultural background & ability to be supported using their mother tongue. -Receive a health check which will enable them to improve their health & wellbeing & signpost to other services as appropriate. -Help improve life expectancy as people with SMI die 15-20 years earlier than the general population. -Help increase the uptake of SMI health checks, update of vaccination, screenings -Enables patients who are disengaged or unable to come to the GP practice to be supported & encouraged to receive their Health Check. -Improve trust between SMI patients & their GP practice. -Help reduce health inequalities. -Help to prevent future health conditions & cost to the system. Key Service Outcomes: -Provide educational briefings. -Provide performance measurement reports on numbers of SMI's. -Provide information on those patients who maybe refusing SMI checks & noting any areas of concern, making safeguarding referrals etc. -Create & co-ordinate all promotional & publicity materials. -Contribute intelligence to key bodies to assist in future service design. Capable providers may come forward by 17:00 on 16th June 2023 to engage with the ICB via nhsnwl.contracting@nhs.net. In up to 500 words, kindly demonstrate your capability to provide this service in the borough of Hillingdon. The ICB is committed to assess the needs of the service users & consider how (if relevant) it needs to secure these needs & improve the quality & efficiency in the provision of the services including through an integrated way.

NHS North West London (NHS NW London) requires immediate provision of Severe Mental Illness (SMI) Outreach Engagement Services in the borough of Hillingdon. NHS NW London currently has an arrangement in place with MIND in Hillingdon to deliver the above services. This notice is to be transparent about the intention to award a further contract (NHS Standard contract-short form) to MIND in Hillingdon from 1st July 2023 until 31st March 2024 (estimated value of £53,008). Success of the service is linked to close partnership working and integration with the wider pathway of services in Hillingdon. As such close partnership working and a multi-disciplinary approach will be needed, NHS NW London believes that MIND in Hillingdon is best placed to deliver the service. Aims and objectives of the service: -Support Hillingdon GPs to put in place a local search to keep track of SMI physical health check progress and to share that information with our local SL providers, so we can identify people who need support encouragement to have an SMI health check, specifically those from black and minority ethnic groups who need more intensive support for them to engage. -Work with practices and support the use of GP receptionist staff to systematically call SMI patients and invite them in - targeting 75% of the practice list to come in for their physical health checks. -Educate all local Supported Living and Residential providers about SMI health checks and the importance of supporting service users to attend GP practices for the checks. -Work with practices and PCN's to develop a model of SMI check that is person centred and delivered from community settings that supports people with SMI Greater access to and take up of other services. Key Service Outcomes: -Provide educational briefings to supported housing staff and any relevant supporting staff about the importance of SMI checks and how to reassure Patients who have concerns. -Provide performance measurement reports on numbers of SMI's being completed. -Provide information on those patients who maybe refusing SMI checks and noting any areas of concern, making safeguarding referrals etc. -Create and co-ordinate all promotional and publicity materials in relation to SM. -Contribute intelligence to key bodies to assist in future service design. Capable providers may come forward by 17:00 on 16th June 2023 to engage with the ICB via nhsnwl.contracting@nhs.net. In your response to this opportunity, in up to 500 words, kindly demonstrate your capability to provide this service in the borough of Hillingdon. The ICB is committed to assess the needs of the service users and consider how (if relevant) it needs to secure the needs of the people who use the services, and improve the quality & efficiency in the provision of the services including through the services being provided in an integrated way.