Market Engagement Event - NHS Staffordshire & Stoke-on-Trent CCGs Homeless Health Integrated Service

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This is a call for expressions of interest to attend a Market Engagement Event for NHS Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent ICB's Homeless Health Service. The aim of the session is to gauge potential interest, inform the market of the Commissioner's plan for this service and any potential future procurement, and review the potential procurement process. If a procurement is pursued by the ICB, it will be open to all suppliers regardless of whether they attended the Market Engagement event. The Market Engagement event will take place on Tuesday 11th October from 10.00am to 12.00pm at Castle House, Barracks Road, ST5 1BL. Interested providers are advised to register with MLCSU e-Procurement portal Bravo via the following link: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk The relevant PQQ reference number for this is PQQ_522. For more information and to book your place at the Bidder Engagement Event, you will need to follow these steps: *Please note: Maximum 2 attendees per organisation* To register on the portal: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk - From the portal (NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Procurement services Portal Home Page, click the 'Click Here to Register' link. - Accept the terms & conditions for using the portal. - Complete your organisation & personal details. - Choose a memorable username and submit. - You will be sent an email with your unique password. - Search out PQQ_522 Correspondence and communication will only be dealt with through the Bravo website. For technical support in accessing the PQQ please contact the BravoSolution Help-desk. The Staffordshire ICB is looking to commission a service which will co-ordinate care for vulnerable people who are homeless, including rough sleepers, within the Newcastle-under-Lyme and Stoke-on-Trent geographical area. The service is expected to be nurse led and must demonstrate a collaborative and whole system approach to prevention, assessment and provision of health interventions, that improve service users' overall health outcomes and recovery. The Service will require extensive multi-agency working, it will particularly need to work in partnership with Stoke-on-Trent City Council and Newcastle-under-Lyme Borough Council. The estimated annual budget for this service is £200k. Should this service be subject to a procurement, it will be advertised separately, and providers will need to register again when the opportunity is advertised. Further information relating to the service specification, as well as total budget and contract duration, will be made available via ITT documentation - should the ICB commence procurement of the service. Additional information: At this stage this is an engagement exercise only and not a call for competition. Should this service be subject to a procurement, it will be advertised separately. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this exercise on behalf of the Commissioners. Details of the Market Engagement Event will be made available on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Candidates wishing to participate must register at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Candidates already registered will not need to re-register. This contract is for clinical services which are light touch regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations'). Accordingly, the contracting authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the regulations. Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts. This is not a call for tenders and the Contracting Authority does not bind itself to accept any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for tenders should as considers necessary. The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these. Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet. The ICB reserve the right to change plans and proposals for any forthcoming procurement exercise as a result of feedback obtained and do not guarantee to consider or adopt any of the proposals put forward by the market.

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