The aim of the procurement is to identify suitable providers to deliver an innovative service which is a comprehensive patient-centred integrated hearing service across the Lancashire and South Cumbria area.
The service will include the provision of hearing aids for age related hearing loss (for patients aged 50 years and over) in line with national guidance and in local requirements for the registered population of the NHS commissioning organisations.
The aim of the procurement is to identify suitable providers to deliver an innovative service which is a comprehensive patient-centred Integrated Hearing Service across the Lancashire and South Cumbria area.
The service will include provision of hearing aids for age related hearing loss (patients aged 50 years and over) in line with national guidance and local requirements for the registered population of the NHS commissioning organisations. The vision is for people with age related hearing loss to receive high quality, efficient services delivered closer to home, with short waiting times. The service must deliver patient focused outcomes in response to the needs of individual patients/families/carers in the community where they live and which is free of charge at the point of care.
The CCGs are looking to award the service to providers that meet the any qualified provider plus standards. Activity will be paid on a cost per case basis at a Local Tariff rate (to be published in the procurement documentation). There will be no guarantees of volume or payment in the contracts awarded. The estimated value of the contract will be 17 500 000 GBP over a 5 year period (on a 3 year initial contract with an option to extend a further 2 years).
This procurement is for clinical services which are subject to the Light-Touch Regime for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (‘Regulations’). Accordingly, the Contracting Authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. Applicants are also invited to confirm as part of the tender which CCG areas of Lancashire and South Cumbria they wish to deliver the service from.