Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (GEM CSU) on behalf of East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group (ELR CCG) are seeking suitably qualified and experienced providers to deliver a nurse led Urgent Care (Minor Injury and Illness) Services.
The aim of the service is to ensure a safe, timely, effective and value for money minor injuries services that meet the needs of local people in the context of the broader urgent and emergency care system. The service will be complementary to the day time Monday-Friday minor injury service provided within registered primary care providers.
The service will be delivered from a 4 Urgent Care Centres in the following locations:
— Oadby and Wigston (7 days per week including evenings). This service will include medical cover providing medical back up to the other centres,
— Market Harborough (evenings, weekends and bank holidays),
— Melton Mowbray (evenings, weekends and bank holidays),
— Rutland (evenings, weekends and bank holidays).
It is the intention of ELRCCG to enter into 1 contract for this service. However, a consortium/partnership proposal for the 3 + 2 year contract would be considered.
The aim of the service is to:
— Ensure that patients with urgent care needs access the right care in the right place by those with the right skills the first time,
— Improve access to high quality accessible urgent care services 7 days a week.
The Invitation to Tender (ITT) documentation will be available from 21.7.2014 and should be completed by the closing date of 17:00 on 3.9.2014.
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 27.8.2014.
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) e-Tendering Procurement Portal Bravosolutions only.
Providers wishing to submit an ITT to deliver this service can do so by logging onto GEM CSUs Procurement Portal (Bravo) by no later than 17:00 on 27.8.2014 at: https://gemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html