NECS527 Sunderland and South Tyneside GP Out of Hours and Urgent Treatment Centres

North of England Commissioning Support is working for and on behalf of NHS North and East North Cumbria Integrated Care Board and is managing this market engagement exercise for the provision of Sunderland and South Tyneside GP Out of Hours and Urgent Treatment Centre Services. The Relevant Authority is issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) as a Request for Information (RFI) to engage with the market and to gather information in order to gain a better understanding of both the capacity and appetite of the market in delivering the proposed services. Any future opportunity is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award. It is important to note that this PIN/RFI is not a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any future opportunity once the contract notice is published on Find a Tender Service. It should also 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 tool to manage this RFI exercise and communicate with potential providers. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to potential providers and all communications with NECS, including RFI submissions, will be conducted via Atamis: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome If you have already registered on the system (e.g. to access contracts with another Health Family organisation) then there is no need to re-register. If you have not already done so you should now register as a Supplier on the shared system. You can register here: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome 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. If you find that you need any advice or support in registering, please contact the Atamis helpdesk using the following details: Phone: 0800 9956035 E-mail: support-health@atamis.co.uk Opening times 8am - 6pm The RFI documentation will be accessible from Monday 28 October 2024 and completed RFI responses must be returned by 17:00 on Friday 15 November 2024. Potential providers are to note that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 (as amended) may apply to a future process including the New Fair Deal non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are compulsorily transferred from the public sector to independent providers delivering public services. Additional information: As part of the market engagement exercise, the Relevant Authority are holding a market engagement event scheduled for Wednesday 06 November between 13:00 - 14:30pm . Should you wish to attend the session, please provide details of the Attendees name(s) and email addresses via the messaging section within Atamis under the project NECS527 Sunderland and South Tyneside GP Out of Hours and Urgent Treatment Centres. The above detail must be returned as a correspondence on the above mentioned project no later than 5pm on Friday 01 November 2024.