Official UK procurement notice
Provision of a Strategic Advisor for Shaping Our Future Hospitals programme
Authority: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership-Procurement Services (hosted by Velindre University NHS Trust) (Central government)
What is being bought
Published requirement descriptionNHS Wales Shared Services Partnership (NWSSP), hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board (C&VUHB) in issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN).
C&VUHB is seeking support in the creation of a Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for its Shaping Our Future Hospitals programme – the potential replacement of University Hospital Wales (UHW) and University Hospital Llandough (UHL) supporting digitally enabled SMART healthcare delivery, plus the pre-requisite digital transformation and wish to undertake pre-engagement to further inform their understanding of the market.
C&VUHB are seeking a strategic advisor (or a consortium) who has the experience of creating HM Treasury Green Book business cases for very large public/Health/NHS acute infrastructure and Health based digital transformation. The arrangement would potentially be from SOC (the initial commitment) through to FBC stage. Further requirement details are stated in section II.2.4 below.
CPV: Business and management consultancy and related services · Information systems or technology planning services
The lotProcurement structure
single lot · no lot value publishedLot #1At this stage, the services anticipated to be required are (at a high level and not…Planned
At this stage, the services anticipated to be required are (at a high level and not limited to);
- CVUHB will produce content for the Cases in the SOC (along with Cardiff University content). Gather all CVUHB produced content and create an ambitious and compelling HM Green Book compliant Strategic Outline Case for the Shaping Our Future Hospitals programme that is true to the scope that CVUHB will agreed with WG, such that it receives the support of our approvers (Programme Board, Board, Welsh Government). The Health Board's ambition is a 12-month creation timeline, plus three months for approval. The Health Board are looking for a supplier who could:
1.1) Ensure the SOC document flows and is of a high quality, advising on overall content to maximise impact, such as ensuring the document describes true transformation of clinical services that supports the need for a modern healthcare environment that is fit for purpose.
1.2) Ensure the content reflects current Welsh policy such as WBFG and Decarbonisation, reflected throughout.
1.3) Advise on work planning/scheduling with the team
1.4) Create a SOC business case given CVUHB will produce much of the content, clearly state any dependencies.
- Review CVUHB created content as its produced and suggest any improvements.
- Develop the full compliant Economic Case chapter, running necessary workshops, drawing in CVUHB stakeholders to go through the options appraisal, through to preferred way forward, quantifying benefits and identifying risks.
- Validating assumptions going into the Demand and capacity modelling and providing benchmarks from other schemes (NHP schemes for example).
- Provide Health Planning
- Advise and plan the OBC stage, plus provide strategic advice along the way i.e what should CVUHB aim to be achieved in the OBC.
- Provide commercial advice which could inform the Commercial Case. 8) Work with any CVUHB external partners, such as other suppliers as necessary.
- Support engagement with key stakeholders (staff, patients, public sector partners, etc) during development of the SOC in order to gain appropriate input and feedback and ultimately to achieve support from all decision makers.
- Attend check-ins with Welsh Government and other parties such as NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, the Finance Delivery Unit, etc.
- Support the programme post SOC to support the SOFH programme such as writing and advising on OBCs and FBCs across a range of services which could include and relevant to hospital/healthcare transformation:
11.1) HM Green Book business cases
11.2) Writing HM Green Book business cases
11.3) Strategic infrastructure advice
11.4) Economic analysis
11.5) Financial analysis
11.6) Commercial advice
11.7) Legal advice
11.8) Healthcare IT transformation & implementation
11.9) Clinical strategy
11.10) Demand and capacity
11.11) Other services related to new hospital developments
- Produce an aligned Digital SOC for the transformation that needs to take place between now and the opening of any new facility/s.
It should be noted that the Health Board is anticipating holding an engagement day for interested parties which will encompass a number of areas as defined in the description. The date for this engagement day will be agreed shortly and if you would like to express your interest in this, please email Emma Lane, Senior Procurement Business Manager with your contact details including email and telephone numbers. Additional information: Additional information Please note that The Health Board may also provide further documents prior to and after the engagement day for background and information sharing to further develop its pre-market engagement work.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Past planning notice
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Stand-alone contract (no framework)
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Yes (GPA)
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 17 Mar 2023, 13:30 GMT
- Last source update
- 17 Mar 2023, 13:30 GMT
- FTS notice number
2023/S 000-007840- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
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Publisher note: (WA Ref:130076)
How it was run
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Timeline
17 Mar 2023 → 1 Jun 2023 · 2 dates- Notice published17 Mar 2023, 13:30 GMT
- Tender notice expected1 Jun 2023, 00:00 BST
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