Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group; East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning

Descriptions

Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (GEM CSU) on behalf of Leicester City Clinical Commissioning Group (LC CCG), East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group (ELR CCG) and West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (WL CCG) are seeking suitably qualified and experienced providers to deliver anticoagulation services to Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) patients.The aim of the service is to ensure a safe, timely, effective and value for anticoagulation services that meet the needs of local people that compliments the primary care commissioned service for patients with a diagnosis of Atrical Fibrillation (AF), Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) and Pulmonary Embolism (PE).The providers will need to identify a solution to deliver the specified service within LLR.It is the intention of the commissioner to enter into 1 contract for this service for Leicester City CCG and East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG and 1 contract for this service for West Leicestershire (please see published specifications); however this is not limiting the structure of bids from consortia / partnership arrangements.The specification includes the provision of:— Sampling— Near patient testing— Anticoagulant initiation and patient education (Initiation refers only to the first time a services user is prescribed an anticoagulant)— Anticoagulant dosing— Domiciliary service to housebound patients who require anticoagulation monitoring (Leicester City CCG patients)The Invitation to Tender (ITT) documentation will be available from 10.10.2014 and should be completed by the closing date of 17:00 on 24.11.2014.All submissions will be evaluated using the scoring criteria which is contained within the ITT -Document 1.Clarifications may be asked during the procurement process, the deadline for clarification questions is 17:00 on 17.11.2014.All correspondence relating to this procurement throughout all stages of the process must be managed through the Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (GEM CSU) eTendering Procurement Portal (Bravo) only.Providers wishing to submit an ITT to deliver this service can do so by logging onto GEM CSUs procurement portal (Bravo): https://gemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.htmlTo register on the portal:— From the portal Home Page, click the ‘Click Here to Register' link— Accept the terms and conditions for using the portal— Complete your organisation and personal details— Choose a memorable user-name and submit— You will shortly be sent an email with your unique password, please treat this securely (if you lose it there is a ‘Forgot my Password' link on the portal homepage)To Access the portal:— Login with your unique user-name and password— From the suppliers reserved area click ‘ITTs Open to All Suppliers' — this is a repository of all ITT's open to any registered supplier.— Browse the ITTs (there may be more than one page) and select ‘Urgent care (minor injury and illness) Services, ELRCCG’ by clicking on it— Note the Details buttons on the left for Navigation and the Actions below— Click the ‘Express Interest' action — this will move the ITT from the ITTs Open to All Suppliers area to your ‘My ITTs' area — this is a reserved area for ITTs that you have either been invited to or expressed interest in.The services to which this notice relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3, Part 10 of the Public Services Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) ('the Regulations'). Neither the publication of this notice nor the employment of any particular terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authorities intend to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to the procurement of Part B services.Please see the published information for indicative yearly contract values.