APMS Contract for Community Health Centre (CHC) GP practice

This is a call for competition.

NHS Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) are re-commissioning their APMS contract for Community Health Centre GP practice located at Melbourne Road, Leicester.

The Commissioner wishes to receive responses to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) from suitably qualified and experienced Providers with the necessary capacity and capability (or a demonstrable ability to provide the necessary capacity and capability) to provide the range of services required.

The Provider must ensure services are appropriate to local needs, access and convenience are important aspects of a patient-centred service, but it is also vital that the services are appropriate and responsive to the needs of the local population.

The Provider will need to design the services around the needs of patients and their carer's.

To deliver a patient-centred service, the Provider will need to engage patients in the design and development of the services.

Please see service specification for further detail.

The aim of the service is to deliver all essential, additional and enhanced services to registered patients at the practice.

It is proposed that the terms and conditions of all the services, including tariff arrangements, will reflect those contained in APMS contracts.

The main benefits and expected outcomes are:  Equity of access and quality of the service across LC CCG  Ensuring value for money and the most efficient use of available resources across the health and social care economy  Promoting and ensuring a positive patient experience  Aligning services to the General Practice Forward View (GPFV).

The Contract shall be for a term of five (5) years from the Service start date with the possibility of extending the term by up to 5 years beyond the initial contracted term at Commissioners' request.

The service will be commissioned via an open procurement process advertised to all providers which is proportionate to the value and complexity of the service and contract.

The ITT will be live on the 21st September 2018 on M&L CSU Bravo portal (see below) and it will have a deadline for submissions of 12:00 on the 22nd October 2018.

Clarifications may be asked during the procurement process up to a week before the ITT deadline, i.e. the deadline for submitting clarification questions on the tender is 17:00 15th October 2018.

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