UK Public Sector Contracts & Tenders

This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice (PIN) as a call for competition, initially to obtain expressions of interest from providers who have the capability and capacity to deliver healthcare services to Vinney Green Children’s Home (SCH) in South Gloucestershire. <br/><br/>The Commissioner (NHS England and Improvement (NHSEI) South West), may then choose to proceed directly to a procurement process with parties who have responded to the notice and in this circumstance there shall be no further notice published.<br/><br/>NHSE/I South West is seeking to re-commission healthcare services to Vinney Green Secure Children’s Home (SCH) in South Gloucestershire. <br/>NHSE/I is responsible for commissioning all health services in the Home and for the clinical governance of the services provided. The key objective of the service is for the CYP to receive an equivalent service to that available to the general population with respect to access to services, based on need.

The key objective for the procurement is to commission Op Courage: the Integrated Veterans Mental Health Service across England. Op Courage will be delivered by a provider collaborative which encompasses Integrated Care Board commissioned providers and the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector (VCSE), including military charities, to deliver high quality, safe, effective and holistic care to veterans and their families in the relevant geographic area. Op Courage will complement existing service provision in the relevant geographic area to provide veterans with services that meet their needs. The contract award will be split down into seven separate lots, as illustrated within the ITT and these will be evaluated and awarded as separate contracts. This contract notice supersedes the previous version and please disagreed any information contained within the previous notice. A request to withdraw the previous notice, to avoid any confusion, has been made.

NHS Arden GEM CSU on behalf of NHS England (Armed Forces) (the Contracting Authority) is inviting suitable organisations to tender for the provision a new England wide service to provide support to veterans in the criminal justice system. The requirement is split into 7 lots:- Lot 1 - North East & Yorkshire Lot 2 – North West Lot 3 – East of England Lot 4 - Midlands Lot 5 - London Lot 6 – South East Lot 7 – South West Organisations wishing to submit a bid will need to register on the Arden GEM EU Supply website and complete the ITT documentation at the following location: https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=UK The ITT documentation should be completed by the closing date of 12:00hrs on 25 October 2022. The ITT reference is 56230.

NHS Arden GEM CSU on behalf of NHS England (Midlands) (the Contracting Authority) is inviting suitable organisations to tender for the provision of an Integrated Healthcare Service Integrated Healthcare Services for HMP Leicester, HMP Gartree, HMP Stocken, HMP Sudbury and HMP Foston Hall. The requirement is split into 2 lots Lot 1- Leicestershire & Rutland Prison Cluster (LLR) - consisting of HMP Leicester, HMP Gartree, HMP Stocken Lot 2 - Derbyshire Prison Cluster - consisting of HMP Sudbury and HMP Foston Hall The ITT documentation should be completed by the closing date of 12noon on 6th December 2022. The ITT reference is 59276

This is to inform the market of future commissioning intentions in the South East Region for NHS England & NHS Improvement for School Aged Immunisations Services.

NHS Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AGEM CSU) on behalf of NHS England – Midlands (referred to as the commissioner) is seeking expressions of interest to deliver general dental services for patients in Hereford, this will include accepting patients across the Herefordshire County for which there are two lots; Lot 1 South Hereford and Lot 2 North Hereford, with an expectation to deliver 18,500 UDAs per lot, paid at a value of £30. The providers premises must be within the boundary map stated for each lot. Bidders may express an interest in one or both Lots by responding to a short questionnaire, please see details below. The new contract is required to start on 10th April 2023 and the contract is expected to run for a period of 7 years with the option to extend for up to a further 2 years (maximum total contract duration 9 years). The contract to be entered into will be in accordance with the NHS Personal Dental Services Agreement (2018).

Providers within the marketplace are being given notice of NHSE's intention to reopen the Independent Investigations Framework. The framework was originally awarded as a bespoke process and is being re-opened under the “light touch regime” of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as described in the original Contracts Award Notice 2019/S 214-526090. The Framework will re-open with the original requirements of completion of a Qualification Questionnaire to qualify for acceptance onto the framework agreement. The framework is split into five lots: Lot 1 - Individual Independent Investigations Lot 2 - Partnership Investigations Lot 3 - Local Care Systems Lot 4 - Health & Social Care & Partners Investigations Lot 5 - Systematic Independent Investigations We intend to reopen the Framework in May 2022. Further information will be available when the framework is reopened. This notice is not a call for competition.

This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice in order to facilitate engagement with potential providers and relates only to a pre-procurement market engagement.<br/>NHS England and NHS Improvement South East (NHSE/I SE) is seeking a Provider who has the capability and capacity to undertake independent investigations into the deaths, due to any cause, of the prisoners in secure and detained settings across the South East region. This includes, Thames Valley, Isle of Wight, Winchester, Sussex, Kent and Surrey. <br/>The purpose of the clinical review is to assess the healthcare the deceased received whilst in custody and the review will form part of the Prison and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) investigation and subsequent PPO report.

Market engagement exercise for NHS England (Armed Forces) who are looking to commission a service for veterans across England for those who come into contact with the criminal justice process.

NHS Arden & Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit on behalf of NHS England - Midlands (referred to as the Commissioners) wishes to inform the market of a future procurement opportunity for Adult Sexual Assault referral services across Staffordshire, West Midlands, Warwickshire and West Mercia Police Force areas This is an integrated adult (18 years and over) service covering forensic, clinical and psychosocial support for survivors of recent and non recent sexual assault and abuse.

NHS England seeks to alert existing and potential providers of its intention to establish a new Cloud Telephony Framework, which will operate under the existing Digital Care Services Catalogue. This notice is to inform interested Suppliers that the national strategy is to set in place a new framework for General Practice. It is anticipated that commissioners of primary care services and other health and social organisations will utilise the Framework. The framework will include standards and capabilities developed specifically for Cloud-Based Telephony solutions under the Digital Care Services Catalogue. Placing the new framework within Digital Care Services Catalogue will support NHS England's ambition to have a sole procurement route for primary care, which will provide a set of centrally understood standards. Suppliers will be required to meet the requirements of the Standards and Capabilities model as set out in the Digital Care Services Catalogue Agreement. Please see the previous published Prior Information Notice relating to this Framework. https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/030470-2021?origin=SearchResults&p=1 Interested suppliers will be required to register their interest via the e-procurement portal Atamis - https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome. Suppliers should note that any future competitions or opportunities will not be directly linked to this notice. Should you wish to talk to us regarding this notice please contact the Hub through the below email commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net

NHS England - Midlands will be tendering for an Integrated Healthcare Service at Derbyshire [Sudbury and Foston], Leicestershire & Rutland [Leicester, Gartree and [Stocken] prisons. A Market Engagement Event has been scheduled to take place on Wednesday at 1030 hours on 6th July 2022 via Microsoft Teams.