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North Of England Commissioning Support

Expression of Interest - Support for Older People in Prison (North East Region)

HealthcareCPV 85100000
ValueValue not published
Deadline29 Apr 2022
Published12 Apr 2022
RegionNorth East
Timeline
Published 12 Apr 2022ClosedCloses 29 Apr 2022
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The brief

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is working for and on behalf of NHS England & NHS Improvement North East & Yorkshire (the Contracting Authority) Health & Justice Team who wish to alert the market to a potential future quotation opportunity to deliver Support for Older People in Prison.

Services will be required to be delivered in HMP Northumberland, HMP Frankland and HMP Holme House.

In addition, the successful bidder will also be required to provide advisory services to HMP Durham, HMP Kirklevington Grange and HMP Low Newton.

The anticipated tender live date for this procurement opportunity is 11 July 2022.

It is anticipated that there will be a 3 month mobilisation period.

The contract term is 4 years with effect from 01 April 2023 with an estimated contract value of £294,000.

It is anticipated that TUPE may apply to this contract.

Note Reserved Contract It is the intention of the Contracting Authority to reserve this procurement by location to support local recruitment, training, skills and investment.

Therefore, this quotation opportunity is strictly limited to providers based and / or who have substantive business operations within the County of Tyne & Wear, in line Procurement Policy Note 11/20 - Reserving Below Threshold Procurements; Reserving procurement by supplier location.

Please note, the contract is suitable for SMEs / VCSEs.

It should be noted that this PIN invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this exercise only, and it is NOT a pre-qualification questionnaire, and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process.

NECS is utilising an electronic tendering portal (In-Tend) to manage this process and as such interested individuals and organisations will need to register on the portal to submit their expression of interest.

The In-Tend e-Tendering portal can be found at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu/aspx/Home 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.

To express an interest, search for NHSE871 Support for Older People in Prison - Expressions Of Interest (EOI) and send a message confirming your interest via the correspondence tab within InTend.

Expressions of Interest must be submitted by 5pm on 29 April 2022.

Key requirements

What the supplier must deliver

01

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is working for and on behalf of NHS England & NHS Improvement North East & Yorkshire (the Contracting Authority) Health & Justice Team who wish to alert the market to a potential future quotation opportunity to deliver Support for Older People in Prison.

02

Services will be required to be delivered

Services will be required to be delivered in HMP Northumberland, HMP Frankland and HMP Holme House.

03

In addition, the successful bidder will also

In addition, the successful bidder will also be required to provide advisory services to HMP Durham, HMP Kirklevington Grange and HMP Low Newton.

04

It is the intention of the Contracting

It is the intention of the Contracting Authority to reserve this procurement by location to support local recruitment, training, skills and investment.

05

It should be noted that this PIN

It should be noted that this PIN invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this exercise only, and it is NOT a pre-qualification questionnaire, and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process.

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Source & provenance
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Stage
preprocurement · Closed
Source
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Buyer ref
NHSE871
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