Alternative Provider Medical Service for Waterbeach Surgery

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is working for and on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement East of England and NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Clinical Commissioning Group (The Contract Authority) to support in the commissioning of an Alternative Provider Medical Service (APMS) to be delivered within Waterbeach, a village North of Cambridge in the South Cambridgeshire District Council area.

The commissioner wishes to invite all interested providers to attend a virtual bidder event to be held prior to the procurement process, which will include information regarding the services and the area, and an overview of the procurement process and associated documentation, including information to support submission of bids. It will also give interested provider the opportunity to outline their thoughts on the service and the procurement process proposed.

The Commissioner may also use this opportunity to seek feedback regarding potential upcoming procurements in the CCG area.

This event will be held virtually via Microsoft Teams on 30th March 2022, between 12:30 and 13:30.

If you are interested, please register your attendance via the In-Tend portal, providing your organisation name as well as names and email addresses of all attendees.

Deadline for registering attendance is 12 noon on 29th March 2022 and Microsoft Teams invites will be issued on the same day.

A Request for Information (RFI) process will also be undertaken in order to gain a better understanding of the capacity and appetite of the market.

It is important to note that this PIN/RFI is not a call for competition and as such potential providers will need to express an interest in any future tender opportunity once a contract notice is published on Find and Tender Service and on Contracts Finder. It should be noted that this PIN/RFI invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this RFI exercise only, and it is NOT a pre-qualification questionnaire, and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process.

This PIN/RFI is intended as an awareness, communication, and information gathering exercise. An expression of interest is no indication of a commitment to participate in the RFI process nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who express an interest in the RFI exercise.

NECS is utilising an electronic tendering portal (In-Tend) to manage this market engagement event and RFI and as such interested individuals and organisations will need to register on the portal to access and complete the RFI questionnaire

All communications in relation to this event will be conducted via the In-tend portal in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu ↗

It is free to register on the portal and it can be accessed at any time of day providing you have a working internet connection. Should providers have any queries, or are having problems registering on the portal; they should contact the In-tend helpdesk via:

[email protected] or call us on 0845 557 8079 / +44 (0) 114 407 0065

The helpdesk is open Monday - Friday between 9am - 5.30pm

All completed RFI responses must be returned by 12:00 noon on 7th April 2022.