Clinical Assessment Service (CAS) - In Hours

Descriptions

It is the Contracting Authorities preference to enter into a contract with South Hampshire Primary Care (SHPCA) for the reasons detailed below. The proposed contract is for a period of 4 years commencing 1st June 2022 with the option to extend for a further 1+1 years periods.An EOI form needs to be submitted by the 26th May 12 noon in order to officially express an interest, please note EOI's will be open as and when received. If however, there are expressions of interest to compete to deliver the requirements received by 12:00 on 26th May 2022, it should be noted that the proposed contract contains an exit mechanism after 12 months which will be enacted in order to deliver a competition process in accordance with Public Contracts Regulations 2015, for a new contract to commence for service delivery from 1st June 2023 for a period of three years with the option to extend for a further 2 x 1 year periods. If no expressions of interest are received, the Authority intends to enter into a contract with the above-named provider/s relying upon a Regulation 32 exemption of no response/no requests to participate have been submitted in response to this notice.If you wish to express an interest or should you wish to discuss the content of this PIN further, please contact South of England Procurement Services via the Intend e-Tendering portal.Please login to the In-tend portal to access the document with a full explanation and justification for the contracting authorities intention to award for its registered population a contract for the provision of an overnight Clinical Assessment Service (CAS). This new contract will be awarded for a period of 4 years with the option to extend for a further 1+1 years while integration and service development takes place within the Local Delivery System. This contracting period will commence on June 1st 2022 and also aligns the service with the Hampshire and Surrey Heath Integrated Urgent Care Service.The Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) intention is to award to Southern Hampshire Primary Care Alliance (SHPCA) the CAS between the hours of 08:00 - 22:00. This decision supports the Portsmouth system infrastructure ensuring that expertise in delivering CAS provision overnight is retained within the system and economies of scale can be realised. Partnering Health Limited (PHL) will carry out the overnight CAS, please see separate notification of this.Please note the Contract value is for the maximum total contract duration of 4 years with optional 1 +1 year extension options.