United Kingdom-Reading: Health services – Framework Lead

The current contract for Health services – Framework Lead is projected to end on 27-AUG-19 and may be available for retender.
Description:
Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:: NHS England South Region Framework Agreement for the Provision of General Medical Services in Short Term and Exceptional Circumstances.

Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Services
Service category No 25: Health and social services
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Areas covered by NHS England South Region Geography Boundary.
NUTS code UK

Information on framework agreement: Framework agreement with several operators
Duration of the framework agreement
Duration in years: 4
Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement
Estimated value excluding VAT: 4 000 000 GBP

Short description of the contract or purchase(s): Important. Please note this formal tender process for the provision of Short Term Primary Care General Medical Services is being administered on behalf of NHS England South Region by NHS Commercial Solutions and will be conducted via the NHS Commercial Solutions Bravo ePowered by BravoSolution eSourcing Technology tendering system. You will be required to register on the Bravo system if you have not previously done so. This can be done at any time. via this web link:<a href=

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Project number 1315 – ITT number 1571
– This is the only route through which The Commissioners will conduct communications with Potential Bidders, and accept completed ITT documents.
– Full project information is available within the Bravo portal
NHS England South Region is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement under which one or more successful Bidders will be appointed to provide local general medical services in short term and exceptional circumstances predominately to NHS Area Teams in the NHS England South Region. However, other Commissioning Organisations in the Region, including Primary Care Commissioners and Clinical Commissiong Groups (CCGs) with delegated authority for Primary Care Commissioning will have access to the Framework.
Essentially the Framework will be designed to increase the options open to primary care commissioners and simplify the timeline and process for securing short term general medical services locally. Call off arrangements for General Medical Services under the Framework will be purchased from the providers using the Standard APMS Contracts, where necessary, after further competitions between suitably qualified providers have been carried out.
The Framework will be awarded for four (4) Years with an option to invite additional providers to qualify after two years of the Framework.
Expressions of interest are therefore invited from suitably qualified and experienced, local, regional and national general medical service providers, practice federations (where they are a legal entity) and multi-specialty providers.
Providers applying to join the Framework will be CQC registered and will be subject to quality, readiness and value for money assessment in order to ensure the quality and continuity of primary care provision.
NHS England South anticipates having the Framework in place by the summer of 2015.

Information about variants: Variants will be accepted: no