GPST Lead Employer Procurement - Health Education England, East of England

**12 July 2016: The awarding authority did not receive suitable bids and therefore has decided to review the requirements for this service.

Therefore, no award is going to be made and this procurement is closed. If the authority considers a new procurement will be required a new and separate advertisement will be published at that time.**

This procurement is being led by Health Education, The East of England Team and is overseen by the Project Board made up of senior representatives from the East of England Team's Education, Quality and Commissioning functions and finance.

The objective of this procurement is to ensure a single provider is identified to provide comprehensive employment and human resource services to all The East of England Team GP, Public Health specialty trainees and Primary Care Educators as specified in Annex A of this ITB Guidance Document and within Appendix "A" of the proposed Service Level Agreement. This includes transactional activities (pre-employment, payroll, record maintenance and reporting) and general advice, guidance and HR management.

The East of England currently has a lead employer model for all GPSTs, and for all PH Trainees. Both arrangements have been highly successful in supporting trainees, and establishing effective and efficient employment practices across the East of England. The lead employer arrangements have been in place since 2013 and therefore it is appropriate that a new tender process is undergone in order to establish a lead employer for the next 5 years.

The East of England Team wishes to appoint one Lead Employer for the East of England Team area and covering its entire geographic footprint.

As Lead Employer, you will become responsible for providing a full range of employer and human resource services and support, regardless of where a trainee is actually based or rotates to during their training programme or length of service for the PC Educator.

Contract values at this stage are unknown, until the number of trainees per year are known, therefore please see procurement documents for last years trainee numbers. The 2015 contract value was approximately £360,000 in monies received for trainees.

The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge, at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning

ITT Title: GPST Lead Employer Procurement - HEE East of England

Tenders must be submitted electronically via the above mentioned address. The closing date for the submissions of tenders is Tuesday 03 May 2016 at 12 noon. Please note that all communication must be made via the messaging service within In-Tend.