NHS England and NHS Improvement South - Site Visits and Meet and Greet Event - Integrated Healthcare Service to Kent and Medway prisons

This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice and relates only to pre-procurement site visits and opportunity for prime providers to meet with potential sub-contractors of the services listed below.

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 pharmacy and integrated healthcare services, mental health and substance misuse services to Kent and Medway prisons, to be confirmed but likely to include;

Provision includes inpatient unit at HMP Elmley and HMP Swaleside.

NHS England is currently defining their procurement strategy and 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 2021. The indicative annual contract value is £23,385,355.

The clinical healthcare services in the contract are likely to include (but are not limited to):

In addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring:

The invitation to the pre-procurement site visits is specifically for prime providers only.

Additional information: The invitation to the pre-procurement site visits is specifically for prime providers only. To encourage networking, NHS England will also facilitate a meet and greet event where prime providers and potential sub-contractors will have the opportunity to meet and discuss the opportunity.

Details of the pre-procurement site visits are as follows;

Date: Wednesday 5th February 2020

Establishments: HMP Elmley, Sheerness, ME12 4DZ HMP Swaleside, Sheerness, ME12 4AZ HMP Standford Hill, Sheerness, ME12 4AA

Date; Thursday 6th February 2020 Establishments; HMP Rochester, Rochester, ME1 3QS HMP Maidstone, Maidstone, ME14 1UZ HMP East Sutton Park, Maidstone, ME17 3DF

The site visit for HMP Cookham Wood was advertised via a separate notice on the 19th December 2019, OJEU ref; 2019 178679. Please refer to this notice for details on how to register for this site visit which will take place on Monday 20th January 2020.

Details of the meet and greet are as follows;

Date; Wednesday 26th February 2020

Venue; At an accessible venue in Maidstone, Kent, which will be advised upon registration.

To express an interest in attending both the site visits (5th and 6th Feb) and/or the meet and greet (20th Feb) event, please register on the e-procurement system, In-Tend, by COP 29th January 2020. We will respond with the time and place to meet for the site visits along with HMPPS requirements to enter a prison.

Please also provide the following details using the correspondence function of the system;

Name of attendee(s)

Job Title of attendee(s)

Organisation details, including address and contact details;

Which establishment you would like to visit.

Please note there is a limit of 2 attendees per organisation.

Interested providers will be able to view the market engagement event opportunity via the 'current tenders' list on In-Tend, available on the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home

Please ensure that you indicate in your response whether your organisation is expressing an interest as a potential prime provider or in order for your details to be passed on as a potential sub-contractor.

This notice is to advertise events 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 or to any award of contracts, 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.

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 i