Provision of APMS contract at Cossington Park Medical Practice for NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Commissioning Board

This is a call for competition.

NHS Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Integrated Care Board (NHS LLR ICB) is seeking to commission a provider to deliver primary medical services at Cossington Park Surgery (Belgrave Health Centre, 52 Brandon Street Leicester LE4 6AW).

The Contract will be an Alternative Provider of Medical Services (APMS) contract commencing 1st July 2023 for a population of 8110 patients.

The weighted patient list size is 7741.

The current contract is due to expire on the 30th of June 2023.

TUPE does not apply as the incumbent provider have advised they will be retaining all members of staff.

It is expected the recommended provider to fully recruit as required by their proposed staffing model during the short mobilisation period of approximately 10 weeks.

The ICB do not want any subcontracting arrangements in place for the delivery of this service.

The ICB wish to receive responses to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) from suitably qualified and experienced Providers with the necessary skill and experience (or a demonstrable ability to provide the skill and experience) to provide the range of services required.

The contract shall be for a term of ten (10) years from the Service start date with the option to extend the term by up to another five (5) years beyond the initial 10-year contracted term at the Commissioner's discretion.

The contract start date is 1st of July 2023.

The contract value for this service is estimated to be £992,466 per annum at 2022/23 prices (excluding pass-through costs, as defined in 4.5 Annex 04 (FMT Handbook) and general assumptions tab under premises costs of the tender documentation), and up to a total £14.9m million over the potential 15 years term of the contract (including extensions).

These contract values are subject to change as the practice population changes and in line with other variable payments.

Please note that the ICB will reject bids that do not meet the sustainability test (as defined in the ITT documents which are downloadable via the Bravo e-procurement portal.

The invitation to tender (ITT) will be available from 8th of February 2023 on the ML CSU Bravo portal (see below) and it will have a deadline for submissions of 13:00 on 8th of March 2023.

Bidder clarifications may be submitted to the Commissioner (via the ML CSU Bravo portal only) during the procurement process up to 13:00 on 27th February 2023.

We recommend current providers of similar services, providers who may be interested in providing this service, or other stakeholders who may have an interest in providing this to register on the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo (Jaggaer) to register their interest and get access to the ITT and all the documentation.