Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2017-08-29
Buyer: NHS Education for Scotland
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 80532000

Technical requirements: This is advanced notice that NHS Education for Scotland (NES) intends to issue an Invitation to Tender for inclusion within a framework agreement for organisational development (OD) support to regional and national leadership groups leading implementation of the Scottish Government's Health & Social Care Delivery Plan. This is expected to be operational for an initial period of 18 months from January 2018 to enable the timeous and cost-effective commissioning of additional expert OD support at local and national level.
Given the potential scope and scale of these support requirements, it is anticipated that the Framework Agreement will be broken down in to lots, to enable a suitable range of providers to submit bids. The specific dimensions for this will be confirmed in the Invitation to Tender.
As the national Board for education, training and workforce development, NES has a lead role in the provision of expert Leadership and OD support for health and care in Scotland. In establishing a Framework Agreement for these services, NES is acting with and on behalf of the regional and national Implementation Lead Chief Executives appointed by Scottish Government to progress planning and delivery of local and national health and care services required by the Plan, and their nominated OD / Workforce Development leads.
An initial commission by NES on behalf of these groups is underway, to support the development of collective systems leadership. This has focussed predominantly on the senior teams for each of three regions and a single grouping of eight national Boards as they work to develop their first joint Local Delivery Plans for 2018/19. Beyond this, it is anticipated that support will be required for a range of leadership groups, including:
· Groups at regional level forming to link into the regional board (e.g. Directors of Planning, HR Directors).
· Other functional groups starting to form across the regions (e.g. Public Health, Pharmacy, Facilities).
Many of the above are likely to need to involve partners out with Health (e.g. Integrated Joint Board Chief Officers, Local Authority Chief Executives, Social Care Managers)
Potential suppliers will need to be committed to working in partnership with local and national OD, L&D and QI practitioners, as agreed with those commissioning specific pieces of work under the Framework Agreement. They will also need to view their contribution of developmental as well as facilitative. This is to support the development of relevant capability and capacity, and ensure assignments benefit from appropriate local expertise.
With reference to the nature and details of the services that are the subject matter of this tender, relevant examples are to be provided of the services undertaken by the Bidder in the last 3 years.
Once published on PCST It is a minimum requirement of this tender that Bidders can demonstrate that they have achieved a score of 40 (Fails to meet requirements in some respects. Limited evidence. minor concerns).
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