North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group wishes to invite suitably qualified and experienced providers to submit tenders for the provision of an Integrated Dermatology Service. A potential bidder can be a standalone organisation or a group of organisations. The successful Bidder will be accountable for the provision of all services within the scope of the integrated dermatology model.

The overarching aim of the Integrated Dermatology Service in north east Essex is to provide patients with a high quality, safe and efficient service which improves outcomes, making best use of available resources.

North East Essex Clinical Commissioning Group wishes to invite suitably qualified and experienced providers to submit tenders for the provision of an Integrated Dermatology Service. A potential bidder can be a standalone organisation or a group of organisations. The successful Bidder will be accountable for the provision of all services within the scope of the integrated dermatology model.

The overarching aim of the Integrated Dermatology Service in north east Essex is to provide patients with a high quality, safe and efficient service which improves outcomes, making best use of available resources.

This Integrated Dermatology service will include, but not be limited to, provision of all dermatological care for patients in north east Essex described in the model, including the provision of related demand management and triage, e.g. teledermoscopy or another triage model to deliver these outcomes, and dermatology related cancer and plastics services and activity.

Please note that the services and associated specification and prices, commissioned within this contract may be subject to review and change. Moving forward it is the CCG's intention to work closer with the CCGs within the Suffolk and north east Essex STP footprint. Therefore the scope of the possible changes to be made to this contract shall relate to the potential introduction of a larger population to support the STP footprint (i.e. the contract and specification may be amended to also deliver a dermatology service to the Ipswich & East Suffolk and West Suffolk CCG populations), through a variation to the contract in accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.

Additionally, and in accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, the contract may also be amended in terms of the original services supplied, where following assessment of the reasonable alignment of out of hospital services it is identified that it is logical for additional services to be delivered in conjunction with this contract and by the lead provider or one of its sub-contractors, both in terms of actual service delivery and to avoid duplication of costs. These services may include but are not limited to other services and specialties formally delivered in a secondary care outpatient setting and any day case or outpatient procedures where it is foreseen that these services can be delivered more effectively as part of this contract. This may include the following specialties (or elements of): cancer and plastics activity, including minor plastics procedures, Rheumatology, Ophthalmology, Diagnostic procedures (including Direct Access), ENT, MSK, Cardiology, Diabetes care and Respiratory care.

In accordance with Regulation 72 (1) (a) of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, please note that North East Essex CCG reserves the right to amend the contract, where following assessment, it is found that it is no longer appropriate for the acute inpatient element and non-elective support to Colchester Hospital Trust to be included within the Integrated Dermatology Service. The CCG therefore reserves the right to withdraw this element of the contract.

Any changes to the contract shall be subject to discussion with the provider to reach agreement on the scope of service change and local price in accordance with these provisions. The Lead Provider will be asked to participate in the development and redesign of relevant pathways that may result from this development.