Published date: 6 August 2020

Closed early engagement


Closing date: 28 August 2020

Contract summary

Industry

  • Health and social work services - 85000000

Location of contract

North West

Procurement reference

NHSE531

Published date

6 August 2020

Closing date

28 August 2020

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

Yes

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

Yes


Description

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a commissioning support service hosted by NHS England and is supporting a procurement process to commission pharmaceutical services for NHS England and NHS Improvement North West (Lancashire & South Cumbria) in the Lancaster University Area.).

The contract term is 5 years with the option to extend for a further 2 years , and the total contract value is approximately £850,000.

This is a Call for Competition as per Regulation 75 (i) (B (iv)) of the Public Contract Regulations (PCR) 2015 NECS is utilising an electronic tendering portal (In-tend) to manage expressions of interest in this contract and as such interested parties
will need to register on the portal to access and to register their expression of interest in writing. Supporting documentation can also be found on the in-tend portal.

The In-Tend e-Tendering portal can be found at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu/aspx/Home
(Please follow the registration instructions if you are not already registered) and look for the project NHSE531 - Pharmaceutical Services Lancaster University Area

Further information relating to this service will also be available to download within the portal . Organisation will need to complete the
project questionnaire in order to register an interest in this service. Instructions on how to do this will be available on the In-tend portal.
Please note that it is free to register on In-Tend which can be accessed at any time of day as long as you have a working internet
connection.


About the buyer

Contact name

Victoria Beck

Address

Teesdale House
Stockton-on-Tees
TS17 6BL
England

Telephone

01642745302

Email

victoria.beck@nhs.net