Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-06-05
Buyer: NHS Commissioning Board (NHS England and NHS Improvement South East and South West)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 18179843.2 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-07-31

Technical requirements: NHS England and NHS Improvement South East and South West seeks to commission immunisation programmes aimed at school aged children across the following 3 geographical lots:
The contract term will be 5 years, with the option to extend by a further 2 years, and will commence on 1.8.2020. Interested parties may bid for one or more lots. All ITT responses must be returned by 12:00 noon on 31.7.2019, at the latest.
This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.
NHS England and NHS Improvement South East and South West seeks to commission immunisation programmes aimed at school aged children in Dorset, including Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.
The purpose of national immunisation programmes is to protect the population from vaccine preventable illnesses and reduce the associated morbidity and mortality and the burden this places on health services. This includes reducing the risk of individuals infecting others (herd immunity), particularly those who cannot be vaccinated either because they are too young or for medical reasons. Collectively the programmes protect young people against a range of infectious diseases which can lead to death or severe, permanent disability requiring long term care such as limb amputations, brain injury, paralysis and cancer.
The aim of the project is to secure provision, for each of the lots, which can achieve and sustain high levels of coverage of the immunisation programmes in scope overall as well as at the level of individual schools/communities and population groups e.g. those who typically have difficulty accessing services. Coverage will be measured in the year the vaccination is first offered and in subsequent school years. The ambition is to be in the top quartile for the country for each vaccination programme and in each lot.
In addition, the provider will offer a catch-up service for under-immunised children in line with the national measles eradication strategy.
The programmes are continually evolving. By 2020, the HPV programme will have been extended to boys as well as girls and the flu programme will have been extended to school year 6. Further school years may be announced for the flu programme in due course. The scope may also be extended in future to include additional programmes, as advised/ recommended by the Joint Committee of Vaccinations and Immunisations and/or at the request of the commissioner. Any provider will have to demonstrate an ability to respond positively to programme changes and implement them in a timely fashion to a high standard.
The contract term will be 5 years, with the option to extend by a further 2 years, and will commence on 1.8.2020.
Interested parties who wish to take part in the procurement are invited to take part in an Invitation To Tender (ITT) process, based on the open procedure and designed to identify the most economically advantageous tender and therefore determine the incoming provider. Instructions for taking part can be found below.
A prior information/early engagement notice was published in relation to this procurement in January 2019, seeking expressions of interest. Please note that this previous notice was an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right. Although those who responded to that notice will be advised that this Contract Notice has been published, there will be no process exemptions or preferential treatment afforded to any parties who expressed an interest at that stage.
This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the commissioners.
NHS England & NHS Improvement South East and South West seeks to commission immunisation programmes aimed at school aged children in Hampshire.
The purpose of national immunisation programmes is to protect the population from vaccine preventable illnesses and reduce the associated morbidity and mortality and the burden this places on health services. This includes reducing the risk of individuals infecting others (herd immunity), particularly those who cannot be vaccinated either because they are too young or for medical reasons. Collectively the programmes protect young people against a range of infectious diseases which can lead to death or severe, permanent disability requiring long term care such as limb amputations, brain injury, paralysis and cancer.
The aim of the project is to secure provision for each of the lots, which can achieve and sustain high levels of coverage in respect of the immunisation programmes in scope overall as well as at the level of individual schools/communities and population groups e.g. those who typically have difficulty accessing services. Coverage will be measured in the year the vaccination is first offered and in subsequent school years. The ambition is to be in the top quartile for the country for each vaccination programme and in each lot.


Award value: 18179843.2