Published date: 10 June 2022

This notice was replaced on 1 December 2022

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Awarded contract (published 1 December 2022, last edited 2 December 2022)

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Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

South East

Value of contract

£165,487,000

Procurement reference

WA9251/ITT

Published date

10 June 2022

Closing date

2 August 2022

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 April 2023

Contract end date

31 March 2030

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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes

Description

NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) South East seeks to commission a prime provider who has the capability and capacity to deliver Integrated Healthcare Services to the following establishments in Surrey.

•HMP Downview
•HMP Send
•HMP Bronzefield
•HMP Coldingley
•HMP High Down

NHSE/I will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract elements to other specialist providers.

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 is imperative to the success of the delivery of this service.

The healthcare services in the contract include (see the service specification for full list of services):
•General Practitioners provision
•Primary Care Nursing (including long term conditions)
•Dental services
•Gender specific considerations (addressing the specific needs of the female population)
•Pharmacy Services (including OOH provision)
•Inpatient Unit facility (as applicable)
•Substance Misuse Services
•Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services
•Health Promotion and Prevention
•Musculoskeletal therapies
•Smoking cessation
•Blood Born Viruses testing to include funding, access and delivery (including provision of testing facilities where necessary)
•Consultant-led pain management clinics
•Therapies / clinics (including but not limited to)
•Dietetics
•Weight management
•Optometry
•Pain management
•Physiotherapy
•Podiatry
•Audiology
•Obstetrics
•Gynaecology
•Transgender (m-f, f-m)
•Personality Disorder
•Occupational Therapy
•Speech and Language Therapy
•Talking Therapies and counselling
•Sexual Health screening - Tiers (1, 2)
•Escorts and bed watches (via risk share agreements)
•Appropriate administrative and data management support

The provider will also be responsible for ensuring effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with secondary care/diagnostics and other services outside of this specification, including hospital-based services, to meet patient's health needs.

There are separate integrated health and wellbeing services specifications for the male prisons and female prisons.

The contract is due to commence on 1st April 2023, and the contract duration will be 7 years.

The maximum contract value is £165,487,000 over the contract term.

The maximum contract envelope is based on current operational capacity figures

Any change to prison population(s) will be managed through a contract variation process

More information

Previous notice about this procurement

NHS England and NHS Improvement South-East - Market Engagement - Integrated Healthcare Services to Surrey Prisons and HMP/YOI Bronzefield

  • Early engagement
  • Published 6 October 2021

Links

Additional text

In the interest of encouraging collaborative working, organisations that do not wish to bid for the entire contract but would like their details shared with potential bidders as subcontractors or potential consortium partners should send their contact details to the SCW procurement team using the correspondence function of the In-Tend system.

Interested providers will be able to view this notice via the 'current tenders' list on the e-procurement system In-Tend, available on the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home/

In order to submit a bid, you will need to be registered on the e-procurement system, 'express an interest' and 'Opt in', then complete a response as specified within the procurement documents.

On registration, please include at least two contacts to allow for access to the system in times of absence.

This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.

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 are instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).

The tendering process will be conducted in accordance with the requirements and flexibilities provided by Articles 74 to 76 of the Directive, and Regulations 74 to 76 of the Regulations. The Authority will run a transparent tender process, treating all Bidders equally. For the avoidance of doubt, the Authority will not be bound by the Regulations or the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these Services.

Neither the inclusion of a Bidder selection stage, nor the use of any language or terms found in the Directive or Regulations, nor the description of the procedure voluntarily adopted by the Authority ("Open", "Restricted", "Competitive Procedure with Negotiation", "Competitive Dialogue" or any other description), nor any other 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.

The Contracting Authority intends to voluntarily observe the award decision notices provisions and 10-day standstill period described in Regulation 86 of the Regulations. Unsuccessful Bidders will receive scores and reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the Bidder/application was unsuccessful. Deadline for lodging of appeals should be in accordance with Regulation 87 and Regulation 91 of the Regulations.

About the buyer

Contact name

Louise Smith

Address

Jubilee House, 5510 John Smith Drive, Oxford Business Park
Oxford
OX4 2LH
England

Email

Scwcsu.procurement@nhs.net