NHS Workforce Alliance Framework Agreement for Insourced Services to Support the Provision of Healthcare Services by NHS and other public bodies (including Clinical Services)

Published date: 19 July 2021

Last edited date: 19 July 2021

This notice was replaced on 30 November 2021

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

Awarded contract (published 30 November 2021, last edited 30 November 2021)

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

Health services - 85100000

Location of contract

S4 7UQ

Value of contract

£0

Procurement reference

WA 03929

Published date

19 July 2021

Closing date

20 August 2021

Closing time

12pm

Contract start date

1 October 2021

Contract end date

30 September 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?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Description

As part of the recovery from the COVID pandemic, the NHS and other public sector organisations have a requirement to supplement, support and expand their own in-house capacity through use of insourced service provision. This framework shall provide access to a wide range of insourced service solutions in support of delivery of compliant and high quality patient focused healthcare. This shall include provision of a wide range of clinical and medically related insourcing services, including but not limited to; Diagnostics, Diagnostic Imaging, Cardiology, Endoscopy, ENT, General Surgery, Gynaecology, Opthalmology, Orthopaedics, Physiotherapy, Urology, Dermatology and all other specialities and functions.

The NHS procurement organisations which are part of NHS Workforce Alliance are NHS Commercial Solutions, East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub, NHS London Procurement Partnership (LPP), NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOE CPC) and Crown Commercial Service (CCS) These organisations are working together to award a framework agreement for the provision of these services for use by NHS and other public sector organisations.

This procurement is to establish a framework agreement for a range of 'Healthcare Services' which fall under the Light Touch Regime (LTR), Schedule 3, for the purposes of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. This framework agreement and its operational features, including the re-opening of the framework agreement at six-monthly intervals throughout the life of the framework, have been designed in line with the flexibilities offered under the Public Contracts Regulations when procuring such Light Touch Regime services.

The service aims are:
o To support and supplement the delivery of high quality treatment that is safe and effective in NHS facilities or their equivalent organisation in England, Wales (Healthcare Inspectorate Wales), Scotland (The Care Inspectorate) and Northern Ireland (Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority), and Central Government/Local Authority or premises identified by the customer facilities where applicable.
o To facilitate enhanced delivery of the patient pathway from referral to treatment and discharge, for the benefit of patients and the population at large, by reducing waiting times, improving the patient experience and avoiding/minimising delays.
o Provide innovative and flexible service outputs in order to meet the substantial needs of NHS and other public sector organisations during the period of COVID recovery and beyond, the focus of which may change over time
o To provide the relevant qualified clinical or non-clinical staff as part of an overall insourcing service delivery model, where appropriate, to perform clinical procedures and supporting activities including administration, diagnostics and further therapies
o Improve efficiency of operating, including through reduction of unnecessary or inappropriate ref...

More information

Additional text: This procurement exercise will be conducted on the In-tend eTendering portal at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/Home

Further guidance on how to access and respond to the opportunity is available in the 'Guidance for Suppliers' tab which is available for downloading from the main portal login page: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/noecpc/aspx/BuyerProfiles.

For any support in submitting your response please contact In-tend Support team at support@in-tend.co.uk (or call 0845 557 8079/+44 (0)114 4070056).

Is a Recurrent Procurement Type? : No

About the buyer

Contact name

Michelle Walker

Address

Savile Street East
Sheffield
South Yorkshire
S4 7UQ
United Kingdom

Telephone

0114 212 7437

Email

michelle.walker@noecpc.nhs.uk