Published date: 18 December 2019

Last edited date: 18 December 2019

This notice was replaced on 20 October 2021

This notice does not contain the most up-to-date information about this procurement. The most recent notice is:

Awarded contract (published 23 June 2022)

Closed early engagement


Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

South East

Procurement reference

WA10209

Published date

18 December 2019

Closing date

28 February 2020

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) (the Commissioner) invites expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced Prime Providers, including third sector and social enterprise organisations, private and NHS organisations, to provide integrated pharmacy and primary healthcare services, and mental health and substance misuse services to Thames Valley prisons, to be confirmed but likely to include and potentially lotted as follows;

Lot 1
• HMP Grendon (Category B or C mens)
• HMP Springhill (Category D Mens)
• HMP Huntercombe (Category C, Foreign National)
(c£3.7m per annum)

Lot 2
• HMP Bullingdon (Remand prison - mens and also YOI 18 - 21)
(c£6.3m per annum)

Lot 3
• HM YOI Aylesbury (Men aged 17-21) (Young Offender Institution)
(c£1.4m per annum)

NHS England will commission a prime provider model for the provision of services for each confirmed lot, and will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.

The contract commencement date is 1st April 2021. The total indicative annual contract value for all establishments is approximately £11.4m.

The clinical healthcare services in the contract are likely to include (but are not limited to):

• Primary Care Nursing including Long Term Conditions nursing
• Access to GP provision
• Healthcare Administration
• Multi Disciplinary approach to Pain Clinics
• In Patients Unit Services including End of Life / Palliative Care
• Mental health and emotional wellbeing services including: Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services
• Sexual Health Services
• Clinical Substance Misuse Services
• Psycho-social interventions service for substance misusers
• Integrated Substance Misuse Services
• Public health programmes including health promotion (including smoking cessation)
• Responsibility for Pharmacy Services, including mechanism for OOH provision and Medicine Management Service Delivery
• Dentistry
• Access to Optometry, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, and musculoskeletal provision
• Appropriate administrative support (including data intelligence and reporting resource)

In addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring:
• effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with community based specialist health provision, including hospital based services
• The provider may potentially be responsible for social care provision following assessment, subject to co-commissioning arrangements with local authorities

At this time, NHSEI would like to determine the level of provider interest in preparation for a market engagement event, to be held end of January / early February 2020, likely to be in Reading.

The aim of the market engagement event is to work with potential prime providers to understand opportunities and barriers to providing these services and to assist commissioners with shaping their procurement strategy.

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This service will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system both within the prisons and onwards into the community. The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions/services in prison and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care. Close joint working with other healthcare services, as well as other departments within the prison such as Education, Offender Management, and Physical Education, is imperative to the success of the delivery of this service.

If you are interested in attending the event, please register on the e-procurement portal, In-Tend and submit a completed market engagement questionnaire by COP 14th January 2020, by uploading to the placeholder provided or via the correspondence function. The questionnaire can be found in the documents section within the Thames Valley Prisons project on In-Tend.

Please note there is a limit of 2 attendees per organisation.

Further details will be confirmed to Providers who express an interest.

Interested providers will be able to view the market engagement event opportunity via the 'current tenders' list on In-Tend, available on the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home

The procurement exercise will be undertaken with potential prime providers, but specialist providers of the services being commissioned may also respond to this notice and indicate if they would like commissioners to pass their contact details on to potential prime providers.

This exercise is being carried out by NHS South, Central & West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioner.


This notice is an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit NHS England or respondents to a future procurement or to any award of contracts, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. NHS England will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise.

The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).

indication, shall be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold itself bound by the Directive or Regulations, save by the provisions applicable to services coming within the scope of Annex XIV of the Directive / Schedule 3 of the Regulations.

About the buyer

Contact name

Alexandra Searle

Address

South Plaza,Marlborough Street
BRISTOL
BS13NX
England

Email

Alexandra.searle@nhs.net