Acute high dependency and PICU, In area acute beds, and specialist placement beds

Tender description

The Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust (NSFT) wishes to create a bespoke, specialist framework for Acute high dependency and PICU, In area acute beds, and specialist placement beds. The framework seeks suppliers that are able to provide additional capacity with the intent to appoint one, or multiple, qualified and capable suppliers to a new framework agreement. The aims of these services is to provide high quality, holistic care for service users in the most acute and vulnerable state of their illness. This will be provided in collaboration with service users, carers, and statutory and non-statutory organisations to ensure that any admissions and inpatient episodes are timely and appropriate. These services are to made available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, all year round. As outlined in the original procurement process, the Trust wish to open the framework for a secondary round of bidding - to enable access to more suitably qualified and capable providers.