Published date: 13 July 2022
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.
Contract summary
Industry
Provision of services to the community - 75200000
Management-related services - 79420000
Health and social work services - 85000000
Health services - 85100000
Miscellaneous health services - 85140000
Community health services - 85323000
Membership organisation services - 98100000
Location of contract
LS2 7UE
Value of contract
£4,500,000 to £13,000,000
Procurement reference
CF-0962800D0O000000rwimUAA1
Published date
13 July 2022
Closing date
15 August 2022
Closing time
10am
Contract start date
26 September 2022
Contract end date
31 March 2023
Contract type
Service contract
Procedure type
Open procedure (above threshold)
Any interested supplier may submit a tender in response to an opportunity notice.
This procedure can be used for procurements above the relevant contract value threshold.
Contract is suitable for SMEs?
No
Contract is suitable for VCSEs?
No
Description
As part of the reaction to the Covid-19 global pandemic, NHS England established a programme for the deployment of approved vaccines to the population of England (the "Programme"). To support the programme, the Authority procured a volunteer workforce that was trained and authorised to provide clinical assistance to registered health care professionals to administer the vaccine. To facilitate continuity of this provision, the Authority has permission to engage the market in order to run a fair, competitive, and open tender.
The Workforce and Training workstream is responsible for the design, resourcing, training and sustainability of workforce to enable programme delivery. The workstream informs programme strategy, works with all other programme workstreams, with regional and sub-regional programme and workforce leads. It is responsible for national design, training, and contracting to support workforce deployment and assurance, to ensure there is sufficient workforce in place to meet demand across England.
The Authority is inviting organisations that are capable of providing and managing suitably qualified and trained volunteers to bid for the opportunity, recently shared to the open market, to provide the "Services", detailed in Appendix 1. Bidders will be required to respond to this opportunity as required and described in this document, and within the published tender.
The Authority is seeking to appoint one provider of the Services nationally that health care providers can call upon to assist delivery of the Programme. The procurement is designed to secure a supplier to continue the provision of Vaccination Volunteers and associated services that provide and enable the provision of clinical support service to the Programme, needed to continue delivery of the Covid 19 and flu Vaccine Deployment for 6 months, until the currently planned end date of 31st March 2023, with the option of extending to 12, 18 and 24 months.
It is important to note that the Programme may be subject to change and development as the Authority is made aware of emerging science/clinical guidance, changes to policy and directed changes to cohort delivery. As such any contract award may be subject to reasonable variation or change during the period. Therefore, it is imperative that Bidder(s) read the documents and familiarise themselves with the conditions and requirements set out in the procurement documents.
The procurement process is described within the documentation published. This procurement has been advertised in accordance with the requirements of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) (the "Regulations").
The value of the contract is estimated to cost between: £4.5m - £13m. Depending on whether extensions detailed in the ITT are utilized.
Please apply here: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
About the buyer
Contact name
Senior Procurement Manager
Address
Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7UE
GB
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