Community Diagnostics Services in North East London

This award notice concerns the procurement of Community Diagnostics Services in North East London via NHS Standard Contract commissioned by NHS North East London Integrated Care Board (hereafter referred to as "the Authority").

The primary function of the Community Diagnostics Service is to deliver all of the Direct Access Diagnostic Imaging Service modalities for patients in North East London (NEL) as listed below.

Commissioners intend to procure the service in the following Lots and Areas: • Lot 1: Cardiology • Lot 2: Endoscopy • Lot 3: MRI and • Lot 4: Ultrasound Provision of Lot 2 Endoscopy Service is for Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge (BHR) Area only and not required within Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest (TNW) Area at the time of publication of this document.

The services are required to be provided across NEL geographical region (for the purpose of this procurement NEL geographical region does not include the regions previously covered under City & Hackney (C&H) CCG).

Therefore, the geographical region is split as follows: 1.

BHR Area 2.

TNW Area Please Note: • BHR Area includes the regions previously covered under Barking & Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge (BHR) CCGs • TNW Area includes the regions previously covered under Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest (TNW) CCGs.

The Procurement is being managed by the NHS London Commercial Hub (NHS LCH) hosted by NEL ICB, on behalf of the Authority, in connection with a competitive Invitation to Tender (ITT) exercise that is being conducted via a process, based in part on the open procedure under the Public Contract Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations" (as amended)).

The Service falls within the scope of the Light Touch Regime (LTR) - Section 7 (Reg 74-76) of the Regulations governing procurement of Health, Social and related services listed under Schedule 3 of the Regulations.

None of the references to "Open procedure", "ITT", the use of the term "tender process", or any other indication shall be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold itself bound to any of the Regulations, save those applicable to LTR provisions.

Link to the Contracts Finder opportunity notice: https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/0ccd4a48-5fd9-4679-a24c-0e034256c392