Tier 3 Weight Management service NHS/SOEPS/21.796 RFI

NHS Sussex are seeking to procure a specialist weight management tier 3 service as part of the range of weight management services across Sussex.

An RFI questionnaire is available at https://intendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning/aspx/Home.

The purpose of the RFI Questionnaire is to gauge market interest and feedback via the RFI response form and provide the ICB with valuable information to help update and improve the current service specification.

We request you complete your response and return it via our E-Tendering Portal no later than midday on Monday 15th May 2023.

In addition to this RFI, NHS Sussex will be conducting a Provider Engagement event from 1-2.30pm on Tuesday 9th May.

Within that event we will talk through the main proposed changes and the session will include an opportunity for providers to ask questions of the commissioners.

The event will take place via MS Teams.

If you wish to attend, please send a portal message and include the names, roles and contact details of persons in your organisation who you would like to be invited.

It is anticipated that the new service will be procured via a standard NHS contract with a contract duration of initially five years plus the option to extend by a further two years, commencing 1st April 2024 with the aim of delivering good outcomes for patients and a reduction in the activity for Tier 4 surgery.

The length of this contract should support the successful bidder(s) to deliver innovation and efficiencies over that period of time.

This is a process designed to help the Commissioner form a view of the best way to commission the service and is not the beginning of a Tender exercise.

A Tender advertisement will be issued in due course.

Your feedback at this point will not have a bearing on any future Tender submissions you may wish to offer later.

You will not be disadvantaged if you choose not to respond to this RFI, but it will be helpful to understand your views at this early stage and you are encouraged to respond as fully as you can.