Published date: 19 September 2017

Closed future opportunity - This means that a potential contract has passed its approach to market date. A buyer can choose to consider any supplier interest or convert this notice into an opportunity ready for live procurement.


Approach to market date: 28 February 2018

Contract summary

Industry

  • Placement services of personnel - 79610000

  • Supply services of personnel including temporary staff - 79620000

Location of contract

Any region

Value of contract

£2,400,000

Procurement reference

17_09_01

Published date

19 September 2017

Approach to market date

28 February 2018

Contract start date

1 April 2018

Contract end date

31 March 2021

Contract is suitable for SMEs?

No

Contract is suitable for VCSEs?

No


Description

A service provider is sought to host and schedule a faculty resource of general practice improvement specialists to support the work of NHS England's Sustainable Improvement (SI)
team.
This faculty of quality improvement specialists provides the majority of the team's delivery capacity at a local level, as part of a three-year 'Time for Care' commission emanating from the General Practice Forward View through until March 2019. As part of that commission the faculty itself will expand during this period providing a flexible pool of delivery capacity which can be
accessed by NHS England's SI team in a timely manner.


More information

Spend profile

This table displays the spend profile of the notice
Financial year Budget
2018/2019 £800,000
2019/2020 £800,000
2020/2021 £800,000

Additional text

The purpose of this Prior Information Notice (PIN) is to:
- Give advance notice that NHS England', intends to undertake a tendering exercise to set up an agreement for the hosting of an improvement faculty;
- To request information from the marketplace relating to the services;
- To allow potential tenderers to register for the upcoming supplier event.
In order to provide more information about the requirements of this contract and the forthcoming tender process, NHS England will be holding a market engagement event at a venue in Leeds, at 1430 hrs on 17th October 2017 which you are invited to attend. Please indicate your interest in attending by emailing angela.johnson30@nhs.net providing the name of your organisation, the names and the job titles of those people you intend to bring with you (maximum of 2 per organisation). Please note we will send out joining instructions prior to the event; your EoI will provide an indication of expected numbers.


About the buyer

Address

Quarry House, Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS27UE
England

Email

nhsengland.commercial@nhs.net