NHS SBS are acting on behalf of the NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group (‘the CCG’) to obtain a Provider to deliver a clinically safe and competent Primary care Locality Service accessible to the local population across Bolton with emphasis upon local population health, access to unplanned urgent care, working in partnership with the wider urgent care system across primary, community, ambulance, secondary health and social care.

The Contracting Authority seeks responses from interested Providers who wish to deliver the Services as set out in the Service Specification. Interested Providers must complete and submit a Qualification Questionnaire (QQ). Providers are asked to indicate their proposed bidding model within their QQ response. Where Bidder Members are involved in the proposed model they should also complete required sections of the QQ. Full details of this can be found in the Bidder Instruction Document. All documents are available electronically via EU Supply — https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com

The contract will be awarded without further advertisement of this opportunity and there will be no further opportunity to express interest. The indicative affordability threshold (including any potential extensions) is a range of 4 000 000 GBP to 4 500 000 GBP per annum including CQUIN and the Contract will be for a duration of 5 years with the option to extend for up to a further 2 years therefore the total contract value (including any potential extensions) will be an indicative range of 28 000 000 GBP to 31 500 000 GBP including CQUIN. The ITT documentation should be completed and submitted by 17:00 on 8.12.2017.