Yeovil District Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (‘the Trust’) is seeking a Strategic Partner for Elective Care Services (‘the Partner’) to invest and assist the Trust in improving and transforming the delivery of surgical services being provided by the Trust.

These services will be provided to the Trust through the establishment of a joint venture body (‘JV’) between Trust and the Partner in which both parties will take an equity stake.

The Partner will be required to deliver efficiencies in advising on, implementing and managing the provision of NHS surgical services at the Trust and participating in the strategic management of the joint venture as a business partner with the aim of increasing the efficiency, cost effectiveness and quality of the elective care services and achieving growth through securing new commercial opportunities (‘the Partnering Services’).

The Partnering Services are expected to include (but are not limited to):

— Advising on and delivering operational efficiencies and business improvements to the performance of existing surgical services at the Trust;

— Advising on the specification, design, layout and functionality of the surgical wing of a proposed new mixed -function facility to be built by the Trust from which the Trust and the JV Partner will deliver future surgical services (‘the New Facility’);

— Advising on the management of the future delivery of surgical services at the New Facility by the Trust;

— Advising on investing in the fit-out of the shell of the New Facility‘s surgical space;

— Advising on, implementing and managing the delivery of the Partner’s efficiency solution and practices at the New Facility;

— Contributing to the business planning and commercial development of the JV over the term of the partnership.

The Partner will be expected to explore potential management, governance and clinical staffing models for the JV and the New Facility as part of the competitive dialogue process.

The scheme is expected to involve the JV entering into a lease for the surgical space in the New Facility which is expected to be operational in 2018 (‘the Operational Commencement Date’).

The Partner may be required to invest in the fit-out of the New Facility as well as supplying the equipment to be installed in the New Facility. The Partner may be required to install the equipment they have sourced and/or co-ordinate with the Trust ‘s construction provider in its installation of the equipment.

The partnership is expected to be adaptive to support and invest in the Trust’s current and future surgical and clinical needs and the delivery of Partnering Services by the JV partner will need to be flexible to meet changing needs, commissioning approaches and the move towards integration of health care services in the community.

There will be a transitional period between the establishment of the JV and the Operational Commencement Date (during which it is anticipated that the Partner will deliver some of the Partnering Services). From the Operational Commencement Date, the contract will run for an initial term of 10 years with an option to extend for up to a further 5 years.

The Trust anticipates that, once established, the JV will bid for opportunities to deliver relevant elective care surgical services to other Trusts.

Further details of the opportunity are provided in the Memorandum of Information accompanying the pre-qualification questionnaire (see section VI.3) — Additional Information) for details of how to obtain these documents).