Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-07-03
Buyer: NHS England
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79419000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 750000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-07-31
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The NHS Long Term Plan sets out the ambition that Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) will eventually cover all of the country, making shared decisions with providers on how to use resources, design services and improve population health. To understand the progress being made, an annual system-by-system evaluation will be carried out. So far, the NHS England and Improvement Primary Care and System Transformation (NHSEIPCST) Evaluation and Metrics team have planned and executed a pilot evaluation in-house with 4 ICSs in the last financial year.
In order to provide both the necessary capacity and expertise to deliver this strategic commitment in year, the NHSEI PCST Evaluation and metrics team need to procure external support for a national and independent evaluation.
The NHS Long Term Plan sets out the ambition that Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) will eventually cover all of the country, making shared decisions with providers on how to use resources, design services and improve population health. To understand the progress being made, an annual system-by-system evaluation will be carried out. So far, the NHS England and Improvement Primary Care and System Transformation (NHSEIPCST) Evaluation and Metrics team have planned and executed a pilot evaluation in-house with 4 ICSs in the last financial year.
— the ICS evaluation will be rolled out to all ICSs during 2019/20 (approximately 14-18 ICSs expected),
— the evaluation will be carried out in 3 cohorts over the year in line with the current and new ICS waves,
In order to provide both the necessary capacity and expertise to deliver this strategic commitment in year, the NHSEI PCST Evaluation and Metrics team need to procure external support for a national and independent evaluation.
For each system the evaluation will consist of 10-15 semi-structured interviews with systems stakeholders and a survey with 20-30 people who are at the ‘coal-face’ of delivering system plans — development and transformation.
The individuals will be identified by the systems themselves. Individual system reports will be produced and shared with systems alongside a collated synthesis report, bringing learning together from all the systems. The learning from this process will be used to co-design system support offers on any key themes that emerge — at system or national level. A series of case studies will be developed to support spread and adoption.
Subject to future NHS England policy and strategy, this may be renewed by a [period of up To twenty four (24) months (2 x 12 months).
The Authority will incorporate a standstill period at the point that information about the actual award of the contract is communicated to tenderers.
That notification will provide information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of ten (10) calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) provide remedies under statute for aggrieved parties.


Award value: 750000