Provision of Clinical Reviewers to Support Health and Justice in Deaths in Custody Investigations

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a commissioning support service working for and on behalf of NHS England North West, NHS England North East and Yorkshire and NHS England East of England.

This was a collaborated procurement across NHSE North West, NHSE North East and Yorkshire and NHSE East of England Regional Teams. The agreed identified commissioning lead was NHSE North West and was the nominated Contracting Authority (the Contracting Authority), who have undertaken a procurement to commission North Region - Provision of Clinical Reviewers to Support Health and Justice in Death in Custody Investigations under the NHS Standard 2022/23 Shorter-form Contract Particulars, Service Conditions and General Conditions; or any edition or subsequent revisions; and the Provision of Deaths in Custody Clinical Reviews for Health and Justice Including Prisons and Secure Children's Home Service Specification

The contract term is for an initial period of 5 years commencing on 01 April 2023, with an option to extend for a further 3 years at the discretion of the Contracting Authority and subject to satisfactory contractual and financial performance.

The closing date for submission of tenders was by 12 noon on 28 November 2022.

Additional information: Firstly, 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. However, Bidders were advised to obtain their own legal advice and carry out due diligence including the New Fair Deal non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are compulsorily transferred from the public sector to independent providers delivering public services.

NECS utilised an electronic tendering tool to manage this procurement and communicate with potential bidders. Accordingly, there were no hard copy documents issued to potential bidders and all communications with NECS, including bid submissions, were conducted via the In-tend portal at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu

It was free to register on the portal and it can be accessed at any time of day providing you have a working internet connection. Should bidders have had any queries, or were having problems registering on the portal; they should have contacted the In-tend helpdesk via: support@in-tend.com or call us on 0845 557 8079 / +44 (0) 114 407 0065

The helpdesk was open Monday - Friday between 9am - 5.30pm

Tender documentation were available on the e-tendering site from 28 October 2022