Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-08-24
Buyer: National Health Service Commissioning Board (otherwise known as NHS England)
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 79600000 | 79613000 | 79625000 | 79632000 | 79633000
Estimated value: 100000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-09-22
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS England General Practice Forward View (GPFV) committed 2 400 000 000 GBP of extra funding to General Practice. The GPFV aims to deliver an additional 5 000 medical practitioners (doctors) working in General Practice before April 2020. A key part of this is to recruit a proportion of the additional general medical practitioners (GPs) from overseas from Autumn 2017 to April 2020. It is currently anticipated that between 2 000 and 3 000 GPs may be recruited from overseas. This is an approximate number based on anticipated requirements. The actual number of GPs recruited through this potential framework agreement may be more or less than the anticipated number. To support this, NHS England is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement of International Recruitment service providers. Potential Providers will be required to deliver all of the services if appointed on to the resulting Framework Agreement:
NHS England General Practice Forward View (GPFV) committed 2 400 000 000 GBP of extra funding to General Practice. In terms of workforce, the FYFV aims to deliver an additional 5 000 medical practitioners (doctors) working in General Practice before April 2020.
A key part of the GPFV is to recruit a proportion of the additional 5 000 general medical practitioners (GPs) from overseas from Autumn 2017 through to April 2020. It is currently anticipated that between 2 000 and 3 000 of those 5 000 GPs may be recruited from overseas. This is an approximate number based on anticipated requirements. The actual number of GPs recruited through this potential framework agreement may be more or less than the anticipated 2 000 to 3 000.
To support this, NHS England is seeking to establish a Framework Agreement of International Recruitment service providers.
Potential Providers will be required to deliver all of the following services if appointed on to the resulting Framework Agreement:
— Recruitment Services (including: identification and sourcing of candidates, leading recruitment campaigns, visa/immigration screening and interviewing of candidates, pre-employment screening, basic induction).
Potential Providers seeking to be appointed on to the Framework Agreement must have the ability to deliver all of the services, either directly through their own organisation or via the support of sub-contracting/supply chain arrangements. Bids from Single Bidding Entities, Consortia (Group of Economic Operators) and/or Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) are permitted.
A full description of the requirements are provided within Document 2: Statement of Requirements within the Invitation To Tender (ITT) documentation associated with this opportunity, which is available via https://nhsengland.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
Subject to NHS England policy and strategy in 2020, this framework agreement may be renewed by a [period of up to twelve (12) months at the option of NHS England.
Potential Providers are required to declare within their response to the Selection Questionnaire Questions established for this procurement exercise (Document 4 of the Invitation to Tender) of:
This procurement exercise will be conducted via the Authority's e-tendering portal (https://nhsengland.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html). There will be no hard-copy documents issued to Potential Providers and all communications between Potential Providers and the Authority, including tender submissions will be through the e-tendering portal.
Electronic auctions will not be used in the procurement exercise to establish the Framework Agreement.
Electronic auctions may be undertaken by Participating Authorities accessing the resulting Framework Agreements, when establishing individual Call-Off Contracts.
This procurement is being conducted by NHS England on behalf of itself and those contracting authorities which are listed within each of the groupings set out on the internet pages accessible via the following links (together with any future successors to those contracting authorities), any or all of whom may wish to procure services from a provider or providers through this framework:
(b) Commissioned by NHS England or other organisations involved in commissioning or overseeing General Practitioner services, as described above.

Eligibility requirements: Potential Providers are required to declare within their response to the Selection Questionnaire Questions established for this procurement exercise (Document 4 of the Invitation to Tender) of: 1. Registration with the appropriate professional or trade register(s) in the member state; and 2. Legal requirement to provide the services specified in this procurement exercise. This procurement exercise will be conducted via the Authority's e-tendering portal (https://nhsengland.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html). There will be no hard-copy documents issued to Potential Providers and all communications between Potential Providers and the Authority, including tender submissions will be through the e-tendering portal.

Award value: 100000000