Date of dispatch of this notice: 23/01/2020
Expire date: 20/01/2024
External Reference: 6f4aae1b-7289-4b78-88eb-f5d36757f21c
Date of dispatch of this notice: 23/01/2020
Expire date: 20/01/2024
External Reference: 6f4aae1b-7289-4b78-88eb-f5d36757f21c
Official name: NHS England
Url:
Address line 1: Quarry House, Quarry Hill
Town: Leeds
Postal Code: LS2 7UE
Country: England
Contact person: Ahsan Haji
E-mail: ahsan.haji@nhs.net
Phone:
Title attributed to the contract: GP Services Purchasing System (PDPS) for APMS contracts: GP services and GP Caretaking services
Description:
NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSEI) is seeking to launch a new online
purchasing system (technicallyknown as a ‘Pseudo’ Dynamic Purchasing System or PDPS)
where pre-approved GP providers can apply tojoin a list of pre-approved providers. Those
providers approved to join the system can then be invited by localcommissioners to bid to
provide APMS services when local needs arise.
The PDPS is a 4-year procurement exercise managed through a new e-procurement
platform and will see:
— GP providers appointed to an electronically managed list of approved providers
— GP providers can apply and be added to this list at any time during the 4-year period,
unlike a traditionalprocurement framework,
— once approved onto the PDPS, GP providers can be invited via the e-platform to
respond to requests forAPMS services from local commissioners. These local ‘call-offs’ will
be matched to the bespoke needs of local commissioners.
To ensure the PDPS can be managed efficiently while also being sensitive to local
commissioner (and provider)needs it will broken down in to Lots
Lot 1 - Substantive APMS Contracts
Lot 2 - GP Caretaker Contracts
The PDPS will be further broken down into geographical sub-Lots (7 sub-Lots in line with
the 7 NHSEI regionalareas). GP Providers can apply to be an approved APMS and/or
caretaker provider in one or more of the statedLots and Sub-Lots.
Application on to the approved provider list does not commit providers to providing APMS
services, nor does itguarantee a provider will be awarded a contract through the PDPS, but
it does mean providers will be able tobid when local needs arise.
Applications to join the PDPS will be managed in consecutive "Rounds". These Rounds
have specific start andend dates by which applications must be submitted. If a provider
misses the deadline to submit an applicationfor a particular Round, they can submit their
application for evaluation as part of the next Round.
The deadline for applications for the first Round is 12.00 (noon) on 14.02.20.
The second Round will run from 14.02.20 to 13.03.20. Further Rounds are scheduled to
follow.
It is anticipated that the system will be in place ready to undertake Call-Off procurements by
April 2020.
Please refer to the online document set avaiable at the EU Supply e-tendering portal (link
above) for further details.
The Services in the scope of this procurement fall within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts
Regulations 2015("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the
Regulations, but is instead governed by the"Light Touch Regime" (LTR) contained within
Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77). Neither the employment
of any particular terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that The
Authority intends to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to
Regulation 74.
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