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<p>Dudley Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is solely responsible for carrying out
the procurement, including the agreement of the award criteria, selection process
and evaluation, and award of the contract.</p><p> </p><p>The commissioner can design
the award criteria to reflect the service being contracted. The criteria for Dudley
Multispecialty Community Provider (MCP) can be viewed in the comprehensive outcomes
framework which is available on Dudley CCG’s website.</p><p> </p><p>CCGs must be compliant
with the Public Contracts Regulations (PCR 2015). This includes running a procurement
process that is equal and transparent, which means that commissioners cannot discriminate
against, or in favour of, bidders on the grounds of geographic location. PCR 2015
also requires that contracts for clinical services with a lifetime cost over the £589,148
threshold must be advertised in the Official Journal of the European Union.</p><p>
</p><p>It will be for bidding providers to determine the ownership model of that provider.
Neither the advert nor the criteria should specify the organisational form of the
body that will be awarded the contract, and the precise arrangements will not be known
until bids have been received and reviewed. Local areas will need to work through
the trade-offs between:</p><p> </p><p>- the degree of formal integration they want
to achieve and the strength of governance and decision making required for implementation
of the model; and</p><p>- their appetite for change and the pace at which they are
able to proceed.</p><p> </p><p>Any holder of the MCP contract, regardless of organisational
form, will be required in to be work closely with local stakeholders, including local
general practitioners to deliver the care model.</p><p>In November 2016 NHS England
and NHS Improvement published details of a new Integrated Support and Assurance Process
(ISAP). The dual purpose of the ISAP is to guide the work of local commissioners and
providers in creating successful and safe schemes, and to provide a means of assurance
that this has happened. The ISAP process will test the ability of the provider to
deliver the contract. The contract can only be awarded once all stages of the ISAP
have been completed.</p><p> </p><p>Once awarded, the contract can only be disposed
of to a third party with the approval of the CCG and they may require any replacing
provider to provide a guarantee from its parent or another party as a condition of
the approval.</p><p> </p>
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