Sexual Health Services in Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent and Telford and Wrekin

A Addendum Notice
by STAFFORDSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL

Source
Find a Tender
Type
Contract (Services)
Duration
not specified
Value
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Sector
HEALTH
Published
09 Jul 2021
Delivery
not specified
Deadline
n/a

Concepts

Location

Geochart for 3 buyers and 0 suppliers

3 buyers

Description

The jointly tendered contracts will represent ALL sexual health services commissioned by Staffordshire County Council, Stoke City Council, and Telford and Wrekin Council including: - All levels of genitourinary medicine (GUM) - including testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (online and face to face services) - Contraception and sexual health (CaSH) services - The sexual health aspect of psychosexual counselling - Prevention of issues related to sexual health - Provision of emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) in community settings Providers will have an opportunity to tender for all or part of the commissioned services. The adult services will need to have sufficient capacity to manage footfall of around 70,000 visits to clinics per annum and will include flexibility of access across the rural and urban areas within our large geography, including an online and telephone offer. A further breakdown of expected activity numbers per area can be found in the Soft Market Testing Questionnaire. There is an expectation that the successful bidder will seek to continually improve the quality of services for its customers, particularly learning from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Providers will also be expected to develop pathways and partnerships with other sexual and reproductive health providers, preventing duplication and fragmentation for its customers.

Ammendments to Previous Notice

2. II.1.4.

Section II.1.4. Short description is replaced with the following; The jointly tendered contracts will represent ALL sexual health services commissioned by Staffordshire County Council, Stoke City Council, and Telford and Wrekin Council including: - All levels of genitourinary medicine (GUM) - including testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (online and face to face services) - Contraception and sexual health (CaSH) services - The sexual health aspect of psychosexual counselling - Prevention of issues related to sexual health - Provision of emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) in community settings Providers will have an opportunity to tender for all or part of the commissioned services. There will be two lots: Lot One - Provision of Sexual Health Services for Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent and Telford & Wrekin Lot Two - Sexual Health Services In Community Pharmacies In Staffordshire Telford & Wrekin only The adult services will need to have sufficient capacity to manage footfall of around 70,000 visits to clinics per annum and will include flexibility of access across the rural and urban areas within our large geography, including an online and telephone offer. A further breakdown of expected activity numbers per area can be found in the Soft Market Testing Questionnaire. There is an expectation that the successful bidder will seek to continually improve the quality of services for its customers, particularly learning from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Providers will also be expected to develop pathways and partnerships with other sexual and reproductive health providers, preventing duplication and fragmentation for its customers.

3. II.2.4

Please note that this II.2.4) Description of the procurement is not a call for competition. replaced with The jointly tendered contracts will represent ALL sexual health services commissioned by Staffordshire County Council, Stoke City Council, and Telford and Wrekin Council including: - All levels of genitourinary medicine (GUM) - including testing and treatment of sexually transmitted infections (online and face to face services) - Contraception and sexual health (CaSH) services - The sexual health aspect of psychosexual counselling - Prevention of issues related to sexual health - Provision of emergency hormonal contraception (EHC) in community settings Providers will have an opportunity to tender for all or part of the commissioned services. There will be two lots: Lot One - Provision of Sexual Health Services for Staffordshire, Stoke on Trent and Telford & Wrekin Lot Two - Sexual Health Services In Community Pharmacies In Staffordshire Telford & Wrekin only The adult services will need to have sufficient capacity to manage footfall of around 70,000 visits to clinics per annum and will include flexibility of access across the rural and urban areas within our large geography, including an online and telephone offer. A further breakdown of expected activity numbers per area can be found in the Soft Market Testing Questionnaire. There is an expectation that the successful bidder will seek to continually improve the quality of services for its customers, particularly learning from the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Providers will also be expected to develop pathways and partnerships with other sexual and reproductive health providers, preventing duplication and fragmentation for its customers. There is also funding from NHS England for Specialised Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Services (Adults) The Council's intend to seek further feedback from the market. A draft sexual health service specification will be posted on the Staffordshire County Council website in early summer 2021 and there will be has been made available to provide potential bidders with an opportunity to provide feedback before tender documents are released. A dialogue will be issued via the E tendering Proactis system feedback, prior to notify interested bidders when this specification is available. It is anticipated that tender documentation will be available in July 2021. A market engagement questionnaire is available on the Proactis procurement portal and you are invited to provide commissioners with insight that will be used to shape release of the service specification. final tender documentation. Interested Please note that potential bidders are not being asked to register comment on the E tendering Proactis system (below) and express an interest in following, fixed, elements of the opportunity IA2239. service: * the Councils' statutory requirement to enable people to ​access STI testing and treatment, and contraception services *the individual budget allocation for each Local Authority To participate in this process further we would like to invite organisations interested in this opportunity to: - Register an expression of interest, using the contract reference number IA2239 for this procurement process on our E tendering Proactis system https://supplierlive.proactisp2p.com/Account/Login - Provide responses Download the draft specification and feedback options for potential bidders document from Proactis. Responses can either be submitted in written form and emailed to sexualhealthteam@staffordshire.gov.uk by 13:00pm on Friday 30 July or via a virtual Teams meeting. Potential bidders can request an hour slot on either Monday 26 July or Friday 30 July 2021, at one of the times stated. Please note these are available on a 'first come, first serve' basis. To book a slot please contact sexualhealthteam@staffordshire.gov.uk. Please note the virtual sessions will only be for potential bidders to respond to the market engagement questionnaire to sarah.lynn@staffordshire.gov.uk questions above. Any additional questions raised by 17:00 Friday 16th April 2021. potential bidders will not be responded to during the session and will be collated and shared (where appropriate) via the Proactis procurement portal.

CPV Codes

  • 85100000 - Health services

Other Information

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