Community Dermatology - NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB

Descriptions

NHS Midlands & Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) is working on behalf of NHS Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB). This invitation to tender is to deliver Community Dermatology across Lancashire and South Cumbria. The objective of this Community Dermatology Service is to develop a single point of referral One-Stop service for patients with Dermatological presentation. To ensure that patients within the Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB population receive the right care, delivered in the right place, by the right person, the first time. Ensuring appropriately tiered care provision through effective triage and referral optimisation. The provider will be expected to support ICB led service development and innovation through tele dermatology and digital triage solutions, integrating with acute and primary care providers to offer a seamless dermatology triage and treatment service in Lancashire & South Cumbria. Within this existing provision, the service includes children under 16yrs of age in Morecambe Bay, Central Lancashire and Pennine, with the exception of surgical procedures which must be referred to Secondary Care. Further to standardising care, the ICB Commissioning Team will continue to review the variation in provision for children with the existing services, as such the future provider may be asked to open up referrals to children under 16yrs of age for non-surgical care in those areas across Lancashire and South Cumbria where the service is not currently offered The ITT will be live on Friday 3rd March 2023 on the MLCSU Bravo portal (see below) & it will have a deadline for submissions on Friday 31st March 2023 12:00pm Mid-day. The deadline for clarification questions is Monday 20th March 12:00pm. The contract is for 2 years with an option to extend for 1 years. As part of this procurement process, the Authority is intending to identify one provider to deliver a Community Dermatology Service across the whole Lancashire and South Cumbria ICB. The Commissioner reserves the right to reject bids that exceed the indicated budget. Any other public-sector body detailed within this notice, wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. The Indicative Financial Cost Envelope for this service (based on 100% activity) is £15,076,592 for 3 years (2 years + 1 year optional extension). Year 1 = £4,590,907. Year 2 = 5,124,960. Possible Year 3 is 5,360,725. Interested providers are guided to the MLCSU eProcurement portal Bravo at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk to register their interest & gain access to this procurement's documents & more specific information. The relevant ITT reference number for this is ITT_996 and the questionnaire will be located within this ITT.