NHS Brent Tenders
Welcome to the tender page of NHS Brent. This site will shortly be expanded to incorporate wider Supplier Engagement and Collaboration information.
In November 2008 the Board of NHS Brent approved a Systems Improvement Strategy.
The national competition panel requires that all attempts are undertaken to attempt a local resolution and as such we are in the process of implementing a local competition dispute resolution process.
Our process will be published on the Supplier Engagement & Collaboration page of our website in due course, however in the mean time should you wish to make a complaint about the principles and rules of cooperation and competition please contact the Dispute Resolution Process lead: Thirza.sawtell@brentpct.nhs.uk
For information on the principles and rules of cooperation and competition please click here
Systems Management Strategy
Commissioner Led Market Intelligence Initiative for Community Requested Pathology Services in North West London: Request for Information
Eight North West London PCT’s; namely NHS Barnet, NHS Brent, NHS Ealing, NHS Harrow, NHS Hammersmith and Fulham, NHS Hillingdon, NHS Kensington and Chelsea and NHS Westminster are conducting a market intelligence initiative with providers to establish whether there are opportunities to transform and enhance community requested pathology services to deliver benefits to patients, GPs , PBC consortia and commissioners.
The commissioners want to test the market to establish specifically whether there are any pathology providers with experience in delivering:
1. Innovation across the whole Community Requested Pathology pathway
2. Transformation of pathology services as per the Carter Pathology Review
3. Cost savings through attractive commercial arrangements, demand management, efficiencies and consolidation
The eight PCT’s, invite pathology organisations from both the acute and independent sector with experience in these areas to complete a Request for Information which will provide them with the opportunity to engage with the PCTs in further dialogue if they are successfully shortlisted.
This will be a two stage process with organisations initially completing a concise 5 page Request For Information (RFI), which can be obtained by request by sending an email to Richard.Dolby@harrowpct.nhs.uk
Completed RFI’s should be returned by the 15th September 2009 by 1200 by email to Richard.Dolby@harrowpct.nhs.uk. RFI responses will then be evaluated and up to three providers will be invited to present to the eight North West London PCT’s on their innovation, transformation and cost saving experiences outlined above on Friday 25 September.
This initiative will allow individual PCT’s to decide whether or not to commit to a formal procurement exercise in the future after consideration for all the stakeholders involved. This is a pre procurement exercise, allowing commissioners to make better informed decisions and does not alter existing contractual arrangements with Community Requested Pathology providers. On this basis formal tendering may or may not commence at a later date for all or any subset of the eight PCT’s. Participation in this market intelligence initiative will not form any part of any future evaluation process should a formal tender be issued.
For further information or clarification please contact:
Richard Dolby at NHS Harrow; Richard.Dolby@harrowpct.nhs.uk , telephone 07866 389 956. |
