Children and Young People's Community Immunisation Service in London

This Prior Information Notice (PIN) notifies the market of the intention of NHS England (London Region) hereafter referred to as "the Authority" to undertake a procurement for Children and Young People's community Immunisation Service (CYPCIS) in London. NHS England London Region is looking to commission service providers for the delivery of Section 7A immunisation programmes in London for 5 ICB geographical areas for children and young people between the ages of 0-19 years. The commissioned service provider for each ICB area will be expected to deliver a range of community and school aged immunisations to those eligible as per the Green Book and JCVI recommendations. The immunisation programmes set within the Section 7A portfolio include: 1. Neonatal BCG immunisation programme (for those at risk of exposure and/or TB infection aged 0-1 year, in line with Green Book recommendations) 2. Seasonal childhood influenza immunisation programme in accordance with the Annual Flu Letter each year 3. Adolescent MenACWY immunisation programme 4. Adolescent School Leaver Booster- Td/IPV (Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Polio) 5. Adolescent HPV immunisation programme 6. Immunisation "catch-up" immunisation opportunities (this includes but not limited to checking immunisation status, and if uncertain or incomplete to administer MMR1/MMR2) 7. Vaccine Preventable Disease outbreak response in education and community settings (0-19 years) 8. Contribute to outreach, through Provider collaboration and support for delivery of immunisations in Primary Care and community settings. The contract term is for a period of five (5) years. The annual total contract value, across London based on current investment is approximately £14.8m. For each of the 5 geographical areas, the approximate current values are as follows: NCL £ 2.1m NEL £ 4.0m NWL £ 2.9m SEL £ 2.9m SWL £ 2.5m To note, current investment, as described, does not take into account additional tariff based investment for the delivery of the opportunistic (catch-up) immunisation in schools for children and young people presenting with an uncertain or incomplete immunisation status. For these programmes (excluding 1-5 above), the investment is based on a tariff priced at £10.06 per dose of vaccine administered and for the delivery of outbreak response. The Authority would like to invite interested and suitably qualified providers to attend a Market Engagement Event. The event will be held on: Tuesday 09 May 2023 from 09:00 to 12:00 Novotel London Bridge 53-61 Southwark Bridge Road London SE1 9HH The Market engagement event provides an ideal opportunity to meet with NHS England London Region Public Health Commissioning representatives and to find out the expectations of service delivery, potential procurement and contracting process may work. If you are interested in attending the Market Engagement event, please complete and submit the Event Registration Form using this MS Forms link - https://forms.office.com/e/r7yvtsahGk by no later than 17.00 on 20th April 2023. Please note that after this deadline acceptance of registration forms and attendance cannot be guaranteed. Places are limited so attendance will be granted on a first come first served basis and a maximum of 2 attendees per organisation.