Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2020-09-30
Buyer: Scottish Prison Service
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85147000

Technical requirements: The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) are leading a collaborative procurement on behalf of a range of Scottish public bodies in the Scottish Central Government Sector to secure a provider of occupational health services. The services include OH case referrals by OH doctors and/or nurses; pre-employment medical screening; advising re ill health retirements; various forms of statutory and non-statutory health surveillance; Health and Lifestyle screening; Vaccinations; Health promotion activity; provision of specialist assessment, diagnostic testing and therapies such as psychology, physiotherapy, etc. and general OH advice to the public bodies using the framework. Services will be provided across Scotland as required (within agreed service levels) in response to client need.
SPS are leading on this procurement process with the intention of awarding a framework agreement which reflects a single lot for all services.
The OH provider may work with selected partners or to subcontract elements of the work to provide availability of services to the partner organisations across Scotland.
Following publication of this prior information notice (PIN) a contract notice will be issued following on with an invitation to tender (ITT) including the European Single Procurement Document (ESPD). The ITT will be published by SPS and will be made available to bidders via the Public Contract Scotland Tender (PCS-T) portal. Tender responses will then be evaluated by the SPS, Scottish Government (SG), Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service (SCTS) and Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) in accordance with the evaluation methods outlined in the ITT.
The purchasing authority, Scottish Prison Service (SPS) is contracting for itself and on behalf of other contracting authorities as detailed below:
The Scottish Ministers (including Agencies), Scottish Non-Departmental Public Bodies, offices in the Scottish Administration which are not ministerial offices, cross-border public authorities within the meaning of section 88(5) of the Scotland Act 1998, the Scotland Office, the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, special health boards, Forestry Commission, Scottish Futures Trust, Student Loans Company Ltd, the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses, Business Stream Ltd, any public body established by or under the Scotland Act 1998 or any Act of the Scottish Parliament, any association of or formed by one or more of the above, bodies financed wholly or mainly by one or more of the above, bodies subject to management supervision by one or more of the above and bodies more than half of the board of directors or members of which or in the case of a group of individuals, more than half of those individuals, being appointed by one or more of the above.
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