Market Engagement Event for the Provision of School Aged immunisation Service for Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin locality.

Arden & GEM CSU, acting on behalf of NHS England (Public Health, North Midlands), invites suitably qualified and experienced providers to attend the Market Engagement Event and would therefore like to advise providers of the forthcoming procurement.

NHS England is seeking providers for the School Aged Immunisation Service for Shropshire and Telford & Wrekin locality.

Immunisations to be included are:

• Meningococcal C (MenC) - containing vaccine (Meningitis ACWY) Immunisation Programme, Years 9 school cohort years. **This vaccine should be offered to older unimmunised school aged individuals who may self-refer**
• Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Immunisation Programme for girls, Years 8 and 9 school cohort years
• Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) Immunisation Programme for boys, Years 8 and 9 school cohort years
• TD/IPV (Teenage Booster) Immunisation Programme, Years 9 school cohort years. **This vaccine should be offered to older unimmunised school aged individuals who may self-refer**
• Seasonal influenza immunisation programme for children (AGE) Reception to Year 6 school cohort years
• Possible MMR Catch up cohort programme to support the national strategy on elimination of MMR

If your organisation is interested in providing these Services as set out above, and in the attached Service Specification, and would like to attend the Market Engagement Event please see the following instructions below to confirm a place:-

• 1.Express an interest by
• a)logging into the Arden & GEM CSU e-Tendering portal https://uk.eu-supply.com/login.asp?B=AGCSU&target=&timeout=

(Registration and use of the website is free of charge).

• b)Selecting reference 33808
• 2.Complete the questionnaire and request a place at the market engagement event and the 'Meet the buyer' event.

Bidders should submit their expression of interest to attend the Market Engagement Event no later than 12:00 noon on 17th January 2019. The Market Engagement Event will take place on Friday 18th January 2019 exact times and venue will be confirmed but this will be a morning event. Please note we are only able to accept a maximum of three attendees per organisation.

Additional information: This is purely a market engagement exercise. Any subsequent procurement will be advertised separately and all organisations wanting to participate will need to respond to the procurement advertisement as and when published. The responses received during the market analysis exercise will not be taken into account in any future evaluation process as part of the formal procurement.