NHSE644 Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) North East

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) are working for and on behalf of NHS England and NHS Improvement North East and Yorkshire - Health and Justice; the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria; the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner for Cleveland and the Durham Office of Police, Crime and Victims Commissioner who wish to commission a contract for Sexual Assault Referral Centre (SARC) Services.

The procurement for the above mentioned service will look to cover the following police force areas:

 Cleveland - Ages 16+  Durham - Ages 16+  Northumbria - Ages 16+

This procurement will be conducted via the NECS e-tendering portal (In-Tend) as such there will be no hard copy documents issued to bidders and all communications between bidders and NECS, including tender submissions, will be conducted via the In-Tend portal.

To express an interest in tendering for this procurement please register on In-Tend portal, which 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.

Should you have any queries, or are having problems registering on the portal you should contact the In-Tend helpdesk via: support@in-tend.com or call us on 0845 557 8079 / +44 (0) 114 407 0065. The helpdesk is open Monday - Friday between 9am - 5.30pm.

The "Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006" as amended by the "Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertaking (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulation 2014" (TUPE) may apply to this contract as this is an existing service provision.

Objectives rules and criteria for participation

Under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 Contracting Authorities must consider:

• a)How what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the area where they exercise their functions; and
• b)How, in conducting the process of procurement they might act with a view to securing that improvement.

Accordingly, the subject matter of the contract has been scoped to take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authority relating to "economic, social, and environmental well-being". The basic principles of the Open Procedure will be followed for this procurement to test the capacity, capability, and technical competence of bidders in accordance with The Light-Touch Rules Regime, Regulations 74 to 77 of The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as amended (SI 2015 No102) (for Health, Social, Education, and certain other Service Contracts).

PLEASE NOTE: Tender documentation will be available via InTend from 18th May 2021 up until the closing date for receipt of tenders which is 12 noon on 16th July 2021.