NWL0119 Provision of Community Enteral Feeds in Ealing, North West London

NHS North West London Integrated Care Board (NHS NW London ICB) requires the provision of Community Enteral Feeds Services in the Ealing borough. The aim of the service is to provide the clinically indicated provision of tube feeds and oral nutritional supplements (ONS) within the Ealing Community after assessment of malnourished patients by Ealing Community Partners Dieticians.

Ealing Community Nutrition and Dietetics team liaise with the provider for the provision of:

• Tube and sip feeds

• Giving sets

• Feeding tubes

• Pumps

• Ancilliaries

• 3rd party products supplied to patients as appropriate, after assessment by Ealing Community Partners, in line with NHS list price.

The products are to be provided at a discounted price if arranged by Ealing Community Dieticians and not on FP10. The Indicative monthly activity is 1017 patients, based on average monthly activity of from July 2019 until June 2021.

The purpose of this notice is to be transparent about NHS NW London ICB's intentions to undergo a procurement late 2022 or early 2023. NHS NW London currently has a contract in place with Fresenius Kabi until September 2022. To ensure continuity of the service beyond September 2022, a 12 month contract will be awared to Fresenius Kabi from 1st October 2022 to 30th September 2023.

During this time, NHS NW London intents to newly define the service specification and consider how it needs to secure the needs of the people, improve the quality and efficiency, and how the service can be provided in an integrated way.

Capable providers interested in the future procurement may come forward by 17:00 on 16th September 2022 to engage with NHS NW London. In your response to this opportunity, please advise your interest and demonstrate capacity and capability to deliver this service via:

https://airtable.com/shr52NBGIuyGSsvoY