Provision of Strategic Advisor for Shaping Our Future Hospitals programme

At this stage, the services anticipated to be required are (at a high level and not limited to);

1. Produce a Strategic Outline Case for Hospital infrastructure:

CVUHB will jointly produce content for the Cases in the SOC (along with Cardiff University content) with the strategic partner, identifying areas for development to make maximum impact.

Gather all 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 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 CVUHB team

1.4) State any dependencies on the CVUHB team.

2. 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.
3. Validating assumptions going into the demand and capacity modelling and providing benchmarks from other schemes (NHP schemes for example).
4. Provide Health Planning
5. 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.
6. Provide commercial advice which could inform the Commercial Case.
7. Work with any CVUHB external partners, such as other suppliers as necessary.
8. Provide advice and support for funding solutions for a scheme of a significant size.
9. 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.
10. Attend check-ins with Welsh Government and other parties such as NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, the Finance Delivery Unit, etc.
11. Produce an aligned Digital SOC for the transformation that needs to take place between now and the opening of any new facility/s.
12. Have the option to support the programme post SOC to support the SOFH programme such as writing and advising on business cases such as OBCs and FBCs across a range of services relevant to hospital/healthcare transformation and which could include:

11.1) HM Green Book business case advice

11.2) Writing HM Green Book business cases

11.3) Strategic infrastructure advice

11.4) Economic analysis and advice

11.5) Financial and funding analysis and advice

11.6) Commercial advice

11.7) Legal advice

11.8) Healthcare IT strategy transformation & implementation

11.9) Clinical strategy

11.10) Demand and capacity

11.11) Other services related to new, modern hospital developments

The Health Board have issued this PIN to understand the market specialities and skills available for the services listed above. Therefore, it should be noted that the inclusion of these services for any future Procurement of this project are at the sole discretion of the Health Board. Additional information: Please note that the Health Board will be hosting an supplier engagement day, further details will be provided upon expression of interest via email to the contact in this notice. 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.