Published date: 24 June 2016

Closed opportunity - This means that the contract is currently closed. The buying department may be considering suppliers that have already applied, or no suitable offers were made.


Closing: 5 August 2016

Contract summary

Industry

  • Technical publications - 22121000

Location of contract

London

Value of contract

£1 to £600,000

Procurement reference

DPD BNF 0616

Published date

24 June 2016

Closing date

5 August 2016

Contract start date

1 November 2016

Contract end date

31 October 2019

Contract type

Service contract

Procedure type

Open procedure

Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

NICE's role is to improve outcomes for people using the NHS and other public health and social care services. We do this by:

• Producing evidence based guidance and advice for health, public health and social care practitioners;
• Developing quality standards and performance metrics for those providing and commissioning health, public health and social care services;
• Providing a range of informational services for commissioners, practitioners and managers across the spectrum of health and social care.

NICE is responsible for the distribution of hard copy prescribing guidance to Health Care professionals with a prescribing responsibility working within the English NHS. This comes in the form of three publications; the British National Formulary (BNF) and the British National Formulary for Children (BNFC), which are distributed annually and the Nurse Prescribers Formulary (NPF) which is distributed biennially. Distribution of all three publications takes place during September & October. Collectively 348,000 of these publications were distributed to the English NHS in 2015/16.

The criteria describing which Healthcare Professionals are eligible to receive the print BNF, BNFC and NPF is available on the NICE website (https://www.nice.org.uk/About/What-we-do/Evidence-Services/British-National-Formulary)

More information

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About the buyer

Contact name

Gillian Watson

Address

Level 1a, Piccadilly Plaza
Piccadilly
Manchester
M! 4BT
England

Email

gillian.watson@nice.org.uk