PRJ1181 - Community Anticoagulation (Bromley)

South East London Integrated Care Board (NHS South East London ICB) (hereafter referred to as "The Authority") invites Expressions of Interest (EoIs) and completion of the ITT from all suitable providers, who are capable of delivering the Community Anticoagulation Service.

NHS South East London ICB is seeking to procure a comprehensive community anticoagulation service providing initiation of treatment and monitoring of warfarin patients in the community. This will serve patients aged 18 and over and registered with a Bromley GP. Referrals come from primary and secondary care. This contract will be activity led with different appointment rates depending on the types of appointment and numbers of referrals, the indicative value range for the total contract value is between £750,000 and £960,000.

During the contract NHS South East London ICB is keen to explore the feasibility of managing switches of treatment from Warfarin to a DOAC where this would be clinically beneficial for the patient. This is currently out of the scope of the current service and therefore out of the scope of this tender process but an area for potential service development.

Further details of the Requirements are set out in the Service Specification.

The Procurement process will be facilitated entirely online via The Authority's e-procurement portal (ProContract). Interested Applicants wishing to participate in the procurement must register, express an interest, and complete the online questionnaires hosted on the portal prior to the deadline for submission (17:00 on Wednesday 18 January 2023). All clarification requests and correspondence pertaining to this opportunity must be directed through the portal. The deadline for any clarification questions is 12:00pm on 11 January 2023.

The Procurement is being managed by the Procurement and Contracting Hub hosted by NHS North East London, on behalf of the Authority. The services in the scope of this procurement fall within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") and therefore the procurement is not subject to the full regime of the Regulations but is instead governed by what is commonly referred to as the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77). The use of any language or terms found in the Regulations, the description of the procedure voluntarily adopted by the Authority, or any other indication, shall not be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold itself bound by the Regulations, save those applicable to services coming within the scope.