Buyer Name: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Buyer Address: Trust Headquarters, Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Ethelbert Road, Canterbury, UKJ44, CT1 3NG, United Kingdom
Contact Name: Senior Category Manager - Corporate (C385190)
Contact Email: ekh-tr.procurement@nhs.net
2gether Support Solutions, on behalf of East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (the "Trust"), is looking to award a contract under the Most Suitable Provider process of the Provider Selection Regime ("PSR"), i.e., able to identify the most suitable provider without running a competitive exercise, for the provision of insourced clinical services to support the establishment and delivery of the Trust's new Mechanical Thrombectomy service.
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Lot Description: In accordance with Regulation 10 of The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, 2gether Support Solutions, on behalf of East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (the "Trust"), is looking to award a contract under the Most Suitable Provider process, i.e., able to identify the most suitable provider without running a competitive exercise, for the provision of insourced clinical services to support the establishment and delivery of the Trust's new Mechanical Thrombectomy service.<br/><br/>A most suitable provider has been identified by the Trust to provide:<br/><br/>1) specifically trained and competent Interventional Neuroradiologists to operate the Trust's Mechanical Thrombectomy service, including the delivery of an effective Mechanical Thrombectomy training programme to the Trust's substantive Interventional Radiologists within this period, to allow for the Mechanical Thrombectomy service to operate independently (without insourced staffing) at the end of the Proposed Contract's term; and<br/>2) specifically skilled and competent Interventional Neuroradiology Radiographers and Interventional Neuroradiology Nurses to support and train the Trust's substantive Interventional Radiology Radiographers and Interventional Radiology Nurses during the initial establishment of the Mechanical Thrombectomy service (maximum period of eight weeks); and <br/>3) provide independently competent Interventional Radiologists with the specific clinical skillset required to operate and support the existing Interventional Radiology service (caseload) for the Proposed Contract term.<br/><br/>This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention of award notice.
Lot 1 Status: cancelled
Lot 1 Has Options: Yes
Lot 1 Options: Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition, as selected in the preliminary questions.
Lot 1 Award Criterion (cost): Most suitable provider process with regard to the key criteria
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