Published date: 15 May 2017

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: 15 June 2017

Contract summary

Industry

  • Translation services - 79530000

  • Interpretation services - 79540000

Location of contract

Yorkshire and the Humber

Value of contract

£1

Procurement reference

SYPS/SHEF/VR/17/16

Published date

15 May 2017

Closing date

15 June 2017

Contract start date

1 September 2017

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

An accessible, flexible and responsive Face-to-Face Interpreting Service to be provided to a small number of GP practices in Sheffield where demand for interpreting services in specific languages is high. The service is for a series of planned block bookings within each practice on a weekly basis.

The block booking face-to-face service currently covers 7 GP practices ONLY where demand for an individual language is high. These practices can choose whether to block book sessions or use the separate on-demand service (provided by a different Provider) and so the volume of activity is not guaranteed.

The CCG commissions up to 242 hours of a face-to-face interpreting service per week across 7 practices for 52 weeks of the year.

The service is primarily for direct verbal communication between a patient / carer and the health care professional they are seeing. This may include helping the patient prioritise their issues prior to entering the consultation but the interpreter should not influence the patient in what they do or say and should therefore be a direct word-for-word interpretation.

The commissioners intend for the successful provider to work closely with each GP Practice to develop a collaborative approach to service delivery. The provider must proactively flex and support changing patterns of demand across the named practice network as and when required.

More information

Links

  • www.nhssourcing.co.uk
  • Bidding documents
  • Further information and all procurement documentation can be found at the Bravo eTendering portal

About the buyer

Address

722 Prince of Wales Road
Sheffield
S9 4EU
England

Email

Vickie.Riley@nhs.net