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NHS COMMISSIONING BOARD

Support to Develop Specalised Clinical Commissioning Policies and Service Specifications

Engineering & ArchitectureCPV 71000000 71300000 71350000 71356000 73000000 79000000 79400000 79410000 92000000 92300000 92310000 92312000
Value£2.2m
Awarded7 Nov 2016
Published12 Jan 2017
RegionLondon
Outcome — awarded

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

Contract value in context
£2.2mtotal contract value
median £95k
this tender£0£2.3m

This is a large award for Engineering & Architecture — above three-quarters of comparable contracts. Based on 33,646 valued Engineering & Architecture tenders in our corpus.

The brief

NHS England has held the direct commissioning responsibility for prescribed specialised services since April 2013.

As part of these duties, NHS England is responsible for programme management of the development, testing and adoption of a range of clinical commissioning policies.

These policies set out the nationally consistent commissioning position for specific treatments, technologies and services to ensure equal access for defined groups of patients, for which NHS England has legislative responsibility for.

NHS England undertook a Further Competition through its Lead Provider Framework agreement to commission support services with expert knowledge and capacity to undertake clinical evidence reviews and evidence summary for clinical commissioning policy and service specification, to help support the development of NHS England's specialised commissioning service.

The contract has been awarded to a specialised provider from the NHS England Lead Provider Framework, to deliver services over 6 programmes of care.

The providers will be contracted to deliver specific reviews, as required, over a three year period, up to December 2019.

This will enable delivery of the programme objectives are supported through to December 2019.

NHS England have planned a programme of work that delivers a maximum of 60 programme reviews.

The programme of reviews, which are based on treatment topics, will be agreed on an annual basis with the flexibility to add new topics should they be considered clinically necessary through horizon scanning systems.

Requirements

What the notice asks for

01

As part of these duties, NHS England

As part of these duties, NHS England is responsible for programme management of the development, testing and adoption of a range of clinical commissioning policies.

02

These policies set out the nationally consistent

These policies set out the nationally consistent commissioning position for specific treatments, technologies and services to ensure equal access for defined groups of patients, for which NHS England has legislative responsibility for.

03

NHS England undertook a Further Competition through

NHS England undertook a Further Competition through its Lead Provider Framework agreement to commission support services with expert knowledge and capacity to undertake clinical evidence reviews and evidence summary for clinical commissioning policy and service specification, to help support the development of.

04

The contract has been awarded to

The contract has been awarded to a specialised provider from the NHS England Lead Provider Framework, to deliver services over.

05

The providers will be contracted to deliver

The providers will be contracted to deliver specific reviews, as required, over a three year period, up to December 2019.

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The gates

What this notice demands of you

1 named, none in explicit obligation language. Each one is quoted from the notice.

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NHS England undertook a Further Competition through its Lead Provider Framework agreement to commission support services with expert knowledge and capacity to undertake clinical evidence reviews and evidence summary for clinical commissioning policy and service specification, to help support the development of

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OCID
7e58d115-35fd-42b6-b817-b71b07f3aebc
Stage
contract · Contract
Source
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Buyer ref
16_06_06 (LPF 16-103)
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