PRIOR INFORMATION NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II.B: Object of the Contract(SUPPLIES OR SERVICES)

II.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

Transforming End of Life Care.

II.2)

Type of contract and place of delivery or of performance

II.3)

Short description of nature and quantity or supplies or services

II.4)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.5)

Scheduled date for start of award procedures

II.6)

Contract covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

II.7)

Additional information

This procurement has NHS Pioneer status, and is co-sponsored by Macmillan Cancer Support. It has the support of Staffordshire County Council and Stoke-on–Trent City Council.

Commissioners are seeking genuine, transformational and sustainable service change that recognises the primacy of the patient in the service model. Accordingly the provider will be required to demonstrate how its model builds on and incorporates patients' and carers' experience of, and aspirations for, end of life care and continues to co-design and co-produce services with the community. It is anticipated that the provider may bring skills and experience derived from other sectors (e.g. supply chain management and logistics, business process management, change management, planning and fulfilment services, operations), as well as extensive knowledge of healthcare provision.

The cost to the Commissioners of providing end of life care in 2012/13 was 53 500 000 GBP, but Commissioners view this as a conservative estimate of the eventual contract value.

Organisations with experience in delivering or supporting transformational customer / service user focused change reflected in this notice are invited to learn more about the opportunity by registering their interest and attending the market sounding events that Commissioners will be running shortly. The Commissioners are particularly interested in organisations or consortia with the necessary variety of skills from both within and outside of the health sector capable of being the prime provider.

The market sounding events will be running on: 17th March (Initial Market Briefing), 28th March (Market Briefing I) and a date early in April, to be confirmed (Market Briefing II). Organisations who have registered their interest will be contacted directly with details of the agendas for the events and the venue (the Britannia Stadium, Stoke-on-Trent). Please note that only organisations who have registered their interest will be able to access the Market Sounding events.

As a first step, please contact msc.strategic.projects@nhs.net to register your expression of interest.

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.1)

Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1)

Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them

III.2)

Conditions for participation

III.2.1)

Reserved contracts

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community fund

VI.2)

Additional information

VI.3)

Information on general regulatory framework

VI.4)

Date of dispatch of this notice