Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-04-26
Buyer: NHS England (North) Health and Justice — Cumbria and North East
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 240300000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-06-20

Technical requirements: North of England Commissioning Support is working for and on behalf of NHS England (North) Health and Justice — Cumbria and North East who wish to commission healthcare services for North East Prisons.
The term of the contract will be 6 years with an option to extend for a further 3 years with effect from 1.4.2020.
North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) are working for and on behalf of NHS England (North) Health and Justice — Cumbria and North East who wish to commission healthcare provision for prisons, within the locality of North East England.
(Important note: If prison reconfiguration and reform results in new geographical locations or potentially new build establishments or prison re-roles then the contract holder will be required to respond accordingly and be flexible in how operational services are to be deployed).
NHS England is seeking to procure healthcare provision for all prisons within the North East prison cluster. The scope of the service provision model currently comprises the populations of the 7 prison establishments, as outlined below:
The new service model will encompass the same prison establishments, but the service model will change and will comprise of 1 prime provider contract with 3 service specifications:
— prison community care services, including primary care nursing, gp, pharmacy, administration, IM&T and IT support,
— prison mental health, including learning disability, cognitive impairment and dementia care services, and
Dental services are not within the scope of the procurement but there is a requirement for the provider to work with prison dentistry colleagues.
Bidders need to note that HMP Holme House is designated as a national Drug Recovery Prison (DRP) pilot as a joint Ministry of Justice/NHS England 3 year project. The newly developed ways of working from the project are expected to continue being embedded and learning spread across the North East. Significant national and ministerial scrutiny should be expected.
The basic principles that mirror that of the open procurement route will be followed for this procurement to test the capacity, capability and technical competence of tenderers in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015.
(a) how what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social, and environmental well-being of the area where they exercise their functions; and
(b) how, in conducting the process of procurement, they might act with a view to securing that improvement.
Accordingly, the subject matter of the contract has been scoped to take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authority relating to “economic, social and environmental well-being”. The basic principles of the open procedure will be followed for this procurement to test the capacity, capability and technical competence of bidders in accordance with the Light-Touch Rules Regime, Regulations 74 to 77 of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) (for health, social, education and certain other service contracts)."
Public contracts for health, social, education, and certain other service contracts listed in Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015 No 102) (PCR 2015) shall be awarded in accordance with Chapter 3 Section 7 Regulation 74 to 77 of PCR 2015.


Award value: 240300000