NHS England - East (NHS England) would like to invite interested healthcare service providers to attend a Market Engagement Event which will inform the market of the intentions to procure a new Alternative Provider Medical Services (APMS) contract for the delivery of general medical services in north west Cambridge.

The Market Engagement Event will take place on the 20th April 2016 at 14:00 to 17:00 at the following address: Victoria House, Capital Park, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5XB.

An agenda will be provided to registered attendees nearer the time.

Contract Award (indicative): NHS England envisages that a single APMS contract will be let as a result of the procurement exercise with a contract start date of 1st April 2017.

NHS England currently envisages offering a contract duration of 5 years (60 months) followed by two optional extension periods; the first optional extension period of 3 years (36 months) may be followed by a second optional extension period of 2 year (24 months).

Therefore, should all available extension options be taken up, the maximum contract duration will be 10 years (120 months).

The contract opportunity will be open to the entire market and the interest and feedback received at the market event will be used to determine the final procurement process.

Registering your interest to attend: Please be advised that you must be registered on the Bravo portal to register your interest in this contract opportunity and to book your place/s for this event.

Organisations must complete and return the “Attendee Registration Form” before 18th April 2016 at 12 noon to confirm your place.

Due to limited space, a maximum of 2 attendees per organisation are permitted to attend.

The form is accessible via the Bravo e-tendering portal – the link and further instructions are provided below.

The closing date for applications to attend the event is 18th April 2016 at 12 noon.

Please note that after this deadline acceptance of registration forms and attendance cannot be guaranteed.

Please be advised that it may be necessary to share the names and contact details of all attendees for the market event to facilitate networking amongst providers.

Parties will be able to opt out of the sharing of details by completing the attendee registration form available on the portal at the link above.

Please note this is purely a market engagement exercise to provide information, gather feedback and generate and gauge interest in this contract opportunity.

This is not a procurement process and can instead be categorised as pre-procurement engagement.

NHS England may decide not to initiate a procurement process for this service.

Any subsequent procurement will be advertised separately and all organisations wanting to participate in the subsequent procurement will need to respond to the procurement advertisement as and when published.

Please direct any questions via the tender portal.