Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice With Call For Competition
Published: 2017-03-14
Buyer: NHS England
Country: UK
Region: LONDON
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Submission deadline: 2017-03-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS England London Region is inviting expressions of interest, via a PIN as a Call for Competition, from all suitably qualified and experienced healthcare providers able to deliver School Aged Vaccination Services under an NHS Standard Contract in the London boroughs of Haringey and Islington. Further details can be found in the documentation uploaded to the portal.
The estimated contract value for the initial 3 year period is 1 109  304 GBP. The full, extended, 60 month contract is valued at approximately 1 848  840 GBP.
Additional funding will come from the national team for year 4 flu and reception but amounts are currently unknown. Contract values are therefore subject to variation. Please see documentation available online for further details. All contract value figures quoted are Ex VAT.
The required start date for the new services is 1.9.2017. Expressions of interest must be submitted via the ProContract eTendering portal by no later than 23.3.2017 at 16:00.
Estimated scope: Haringey has 16 secondary and 59 primary schools, Islington has 11 secondary and 46 primary schools.
Additional funding will come from the national team for year 4 flu and reception but amounts are currently unknown. Contract values are therefore subject to variation. All contract value figures quoted are Ex VAT and are for the full, extended, contract period.
Please ensure that you leave enough time to register your organisation on the tendering portal which can take up to 24 hrs.
Please see documentation available online for further details. The Award criteria will be Quality (80 %) and Price (20 %).
The Contract will be for an initial period of 3 years (36 months). The initial period is followed by an optional extension period of up to 2 years (24 months) months.
This advertisement is a Prior Information notice (PIN) as a Call for Competition. This means that no further contract notice will be published for this contract. Providers interested in providing these services and who wish to be involved in any subsequent tender process must respond by formally expressing an interest in this opportunity via the process described in the published documents.
The Services to which this project relates fall within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the Regulations). Neither the publication of the advertisement, the use of this stage, nor the use of the term ‘Open Procedure’ nor any other indication (including any statement in this advert or the ITT documentation) shall be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to procurements under the Light Touch Regime (LTR).
Interested Bidders must access the project documentation via the link provided and submit an Expression of Interest (EOI) response by completing the stipulated questionnaire on the e-Tendering portal ‘ProContract’ before the submission deadline. The ITT will then be published to only those providers who have expressed an interest in line with the instructions. See procurement documentation for more details.