Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
NHS London Commercial Hub on behalf of NHS SEL ICB
4th Floor, Unex Tower, 5 Station Street
London
E15 1DA
Contact
Ms Kiran Uppal
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UKI44 - Lewisham and Southwark
Internet address(es)
Main address
https://www.selondonics.org/icb/
Buyer's address
https://londoncommercialhub.nhs.uk/
one.2) Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
one.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
one.5) Main activity
Health
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
PRJ-1289-NHSE-New Mill St Practice APMS SEL ICB Southwark MEQ
Reference number
DN673694
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
NHS South East London Integrated Care Board (NHS SEL ICB) under delegated commissioning on behalf of NHS England intends to procure a service provider to deliver GP Primary Medical Services under an APMS Contract at New Mill St Practice in the Southwark borough.
This service is an established Southwark practice which works closely with practices within Bermondsey Neighbourhood Team and North Southwark Primary Care Network.
New Mill Street General Practice currently provides GP services to 5936 People residing in the borough of Southwark.
The service will operate under an APMS primary care contract.
The service will provide GP services to residents within North Southwark.
The indicative contract value is approximately £845,998 per annum
The contract will have an initial term of 5 years (60 months), followed by an optional extension of 5 years (60 months) plus 5 years (60 months) at the discretion of the commissioner. If all available extensions are taken up in full the contract will have a maximum duration of 15 years (180 months).
The Commissioner is seeking feedback through this market engagement exercise to shape the requirements of this service and to inform the market of any future procurement exercise.
The Commissioner values open and detailed feedback in these areas.
Questionnaire responses submitted will remain confidential and information gathered will be used for the sole purpose of informing the upcoming procurement process and seeking feedback from the market.
Interested parties are asked to follow the link below to register on the ProContract portal and Express an Interest to gain access to the Market Engagement Questionnaire to complete and submit by the deadline stated;
two.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT: £12,689,970
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKI44 - Lewisham and Southwark
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
This is a prior information notice of an upcoming procurement process for New Mill Street General Practice delivered under an APMS Contract to residents in the practice catchment area of North Southwark.
NHS South East London Integrated Care Board (NHS SEL ICB) under delegated commissioning on behalf of NHS England will soon be undertaking a procurement process to select a service provider to deliver GP Primary Medical Services under an APMS Contract at New Mill St Practice in Southwark borough.
The SEL ICB is currently developing the draft service requirements which is being informed by service user and stakeholder feedback. SEL ICB wish to request market feedback from potentially interested providers to inform the upcoming procurement process.
In order to assist the Commissioners with testing its assumptions and proposed service requirements, a market engagement questionnaire (MEQ) has been published to explore the market's feedback on the following areas:
• Outline of service requirements and KPI's
• timescales for procurement and mobilisation of the new contract
• proposed contract duration and financial model.
Although, this pre-market engagement does not form any part of the formal procurement process, it will inform how the new service is commissioned. Information gained from this exercise will be used to inform the final service specification and expected outcomes from the procurement process.
Background
This service is an established Southwark practice which works closely with practices within Bermondsey Neighbourhood Team and North Southwark Primary Care Network.
New Mill Street General Practice currently provides GP services to 5936 People residing in the borough of Southwark. The practice is supported by Quay Health Solutions GP Federation.
Outline
The service will operate under an APMS primary care contract and provide core General Medical Services together with a PMS Premium specification to residents within Southwark.
Patient Cohort
The service will provide GP services to residents within North Southwark.
Aims and objectives
The aims of the service are to:
• deliver general medical services to the registered population.
• To have a proactive patient centred model of care adopting a multidisciplinary approach to case management.
• provide a responsive service which adapts over time to patient feedback and to changes in evidence
• develop effective working relationships across the wider system, such as but not exclusively, nursing homes, acute hospitals, community nursing, voluntary sector organisations.
• To work closely within their Integrated Neighbourhood Team and with the PCN, to support delivery of the GMS contract to the local population.
• To help improve consistency and remove variation across the borough in quality of care.
• To consistently provide high quality care to the patients
• improve patient satisfaction and outcomes
• improve management of long-term conditions within the practice cohort
Contract value
The indicative contract value is approximately £845,998 per annum. This figure is based on the current practice list size, but it is expected that there will be some list size growth in line with local and national expected population increase.
Contract Duration
The contract will have an initial term of 5 years (60 months), followed by an optional extension of 5 years (60 months) plus 5 years (60 months) at the discretion of the commissioner. If all available extension is taken up in full the contract will have a maximum duration of 15 years (180 months).
The purpose of this PIN is to inform the market of a possible procurement. In issuing this PIN and engaging with the market, the Authority is not committing to carrying out any procurement.
The services in the scope of this procurement fall 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).
two.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT: £12,689,970
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
1 April 2024
Section four. Procedure
four.1) Description
four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes