Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-12-08
Buyer: NHS England
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85111500: Psychiatric hospital services | 85120000: Medical practice services | 85121100: General practitioner services | 85121270
Estimated value: 6500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-01-05

Technical requirements: North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a commissioning support service hosted by NHS England and is managing this procurement process for and on behalf of NHS England North Region Health and Justice (the Commissioner).
NHS England is seeking to procure health and social care provision for HMP Liverpool for a contract term of 5 years with a contract value of GBP 6 500 000 per year. The contract includes social care provision which will be paid on an hourly rate. Social care funding is not within the GBP 6 500 000 financial threshold.
The scope of the service provision model currently comprises the population at HMP Liverpool only. (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 health and social care provision for HMP Liverpool for a contract term of 5 years with a contract value of GBP 6 500 00 per year. The contract includes social care provision which will be paid on an hourly rate. Social care funding is not within the GBP 6 500 000 financial threshold.
— Prison Community Care Services, including Primary Care Nursing, GP, Substance Use (DART), Pharmacy, Dental, Ophthalmology, Administration, IM&T and IT Support,
— Prison Mental Health, including Learning Disability, Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Care Services,
— Social care provision for all individuals as directed by the Local Authority social care assessment outcome.
The Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulation 2006 (as amended) may apply. Bidders are advised to obtain their own legal advice and carry out due diligence including the New Fair Deal non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are compulsorily transferred from the public sector to independent providers delivering public services.
(a) how what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the area where it exercises its functions; and
(b) how, in conducting the process of procurement, it 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 (S1 2015 nº 102) (PCR 2015) shall be awarded in accordance with Chapter 3 Section 7 Regulation 74 to 77 of PCR 2015.
NECS is utilising an electronic tendering system to manage this procurement and communicate with potential providers. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to potential providers and all communications with NECS, including your tender submission, will be conducted via the portal https://www.proactisplaza.com/SupplierPortal/?CID=NECS hosted by (Proactis) the managed service provider for the NECS electronic tendering system.
To express an interest in tendering for this service, please register on the electronic tendering portal, which can be found at https://www.proactisplaza.com/SupplierPortal/?CID=NECS.


Award value: 6500000