NHS England South (South West)School Based Immunisation Services for Cornwall

NHS England South (South West) (the Commissioners) invites expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced providers including third sector and social enterprise organisations, private and NHS to provide School Based Immunisation Services for Cornwall.

NHS England South (South West) will be the contracting and commissioning and are looking for a single provider to deliver a high quality service across Cornwall.

The aim of providing School Based Immunisation Services for Cornwall is to improve uptake and prevent avoidable ill-health from vaccine preventable diseases.

Contract award is anticipated in late July 2016 and the successful bidder will be expected to manage a phased implementation with a service commencement date to start as closely as possible with the beginning of the academic school year i.e. September 2016.

If you wish to express an interest in taking part in a future procurement exercise to identify a provider to deliver these services in, please register on the In-Tend portal and submit a completed Provider Sounding Questionnaire by 12pm on Monday 7th March 2016. The information received during this process will be used to inform potential future solutions.

NHS England South (South West) is proposing to hold a market event to discuss the forthcoming procurement on 23rd March 2016 – further details to follow.

Please note that:

• This notice has been issued purely as an information seeking exercise and is not part of any formal procurement process. NHS England will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise.

• NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCWCSU), acting on behalf of NHS England South (South West) (the commissioners)

Additional information: In-Tend Registration

https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Registration

School Based Immunisation Services for Cornwall Provider Sounding Questionnaire - February 2016

To register on In-Tend please visit: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Registration

Please send the completed questionnaire by correspondence on the below project:

School Based Immunisation Services for Cornwall

SCW/NHSSCWCSU/00000159/2016

This notice is an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit NHS England or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. NHS England will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise.