NHS England and NHS Improvement South-East - Market Engagement - Integrated Healthcare Services to Isle of Wight Prisons.

This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice in relation to a pre-procurement market engagement event, 1:1 meetings and a market questionnaire.

NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) (the Commissioner) invites expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced Prime Providers, including third sector and social enterprise organisations, private and NHS organisations, to provide integrated healthcare services including pharmacy, mental health and substance misuse to the Isle of Wight prisons - HMP Parkhurst & HMP Albany.

NHSE/I will commission a Prime Provider model for the provision of services and will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.

The indicative date for the contract to commence is 1st April 2023. The annual contract value is expected to be in the region of £6.7million.

This service will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system, both within the prisons and onwards into the community. The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions services in prison, and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care. Close joint working with other healthcare services, as well as other departments within the prison is imperative.

The service model will likely encompass the following services (but not limited to): -

The provider will also be responsible for ensuring effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with secondary care/diagnostics and other services outside of this specification, including hospital-based services, to meet patient's health needs.

Additional information: This process is being managed by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.

Those interested in delivering the service should complete the online market engagement questionnaire, including any organisations who consider themselves to be potential sub-contractors to the service and would like their details to be shared with potential prime providers.

Following market questionnaire submissions, NHSE/I South East intends to engage directly with potential prime providers, who will be invited to attend a virtual market engagement event, expected to take place 18th February 2022.

Further details of the event, including joining instructions, will be provided once the PIN has closed, to those providers who express an interest and complete the market engagement questionnaire.

Following this event, there will be the opportunity for potential prime providers to meet 1:1 with Commissioners to further develop understanding of the opportunities and barriers to providing these services in the establishments described and to discuss their questionnaire responses, along with the procurement in general. These are expected to take place week commencing 28th February 2022.

To encourage networking, and with consent, all contact details of prime providers and sub-contractors who complete the market questionnaire will be shared via the procurement portal.

Providers who wish to express their interest and complete the questionnaire will need to register on the e-procurement system, In-Tend, available on the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home

The questionnaire can be accessed via the 'current tenders' list on In-Tend, listed as 'WA12138/ME: Integrated Healthcare Services to Isle of Wight Prisons for NHS England and NHS Improvement South East', select 'express an interest' and then 'opt in'. Please complete the market questionnaire within In-Tend by midday on Monday 7th February 2022.

NHSE/I South East will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise.

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 NHSE/I South East or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest.

The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).