Official UK procurement notice
Clinical Reviewers framework · UK public procurement notice
Authority: NHS England (Central government)
What is being bought2 lots · detail below
Published requirement descriptionThis 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 to secure a framework of Independent Clinical Reviewers into Deaths in Custody and Detention.
A specialist team within the Authority's commission Health & Justice services within London. The team are responsible for appointing Clinical Reviewers to Prison and Probation Ombudsman (PPO) investigations when deaths within the secure London estate occur - the secure estate includes seven adult prisons in London, one young offenders' institution, and two Heathrow Immigration Removal Centres (IRC).
Clinical Reviewers conduct independent Clinical Reviews as part of wider investigations led by the PPO into deaths that occur within the secure estate in London, and in rare cases deaths of patients recently released from custody or detention.
The role of a Clinical Reviewer is to examine the clinical care pertinent to the death, provided to the deceased, whilst in custody, and to determine whether the care was equivalent, in accordance with national guidance, standards and local policy, to the care that one could expect to receive in the community.
In 2021, there were 26 deaths in custody within London, in 2022 there were 6 and in 2023 there were 22.
The Clinical Reviewers Framework, re-procured, is expected to commence in January 2025 (subject to change) with Reviewers commissioned on an ad hoc basis to conduct three levels of review:
- Level one - a desk-based review of records and the production of a written report
- Level two - a desk-based review of records, interviews with healthcare staff and the production of a written report
- And level three - a panel review with a lead Reviewer and multi-disciplinary input, including a desk-based review of records, interviews with healthcare staff and a written report.
On occasion, Clinical Reviewers may also be commissioned to undertake other reviews i.e. system reviews or thematic analyses.
The framework will comprise of registered clinicians, such as GPs and nurses, capable of conducting robust and challenging independent Clinical Reviews. The Authority welcomes engagement from all prospective Bidders and stakeholders, including individual clinicians.
The Authority plans to hold online engagement process using MS forms, to gather information from the market about the procurement, including:
- the proposed services to be provided
- anticipated contract type, length, and conditions
- an overview of the procurement process and the anticipated timeline.
Please read the attached documents
The purpose of this PIN is to inform the market of a possible procurement. In issuing this PIN and engaging with the market, the Authority is not committing to carrying out any procurement in relation to the requirements stated in this PIN.
If interested in taking part in this market engagement exercise, please fill the MS form by copying the ling below and pasting to your browser:
forms.office.com/e/6GrhJPBFup ↗
To access information pack please see notice on Contracts Finder portal (same log in details as Find a Tender portal) or Atamis (Contract reference C254022) on link below
Please make sure you fill and submit the form by 12 April 2024.
CPV: Health and social work services · Health services
Lots and requirements (2)Procurement structure
2 lots · no lot values published · win at most 2 of themWhat it takes to wini
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How this buyer will score bids.
The evaluation criteria and weights exactly as published on the notice, grouped by family (price, quality, social value and so on).
- “Clinical Reviewers framework” is a framework: the contest is a place on its panel, not a single contract.
Pipeline intelligence · planning stage: how this market runs before the tender is published
How NHS England buys Health services (CPV 8510), and who usually turns up
NHS England’s own published record, next to the published market for the same work. This notice is a framework or DPS, so only frameworks and DPS are compared. Whole-market view: Health services (CPV 8510) →
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A local branch does not count if the registered address is elsewhere.
Most of this buyer’s recorded winners are registered outside Greater London.
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How long buyers here take to decide after bids close.
Middle value in days from the deadline to the first award notice, on competitions that published both dates.
Only decided tenders count, so slow ones still waiting are not in.
Half of these awards were announced within 27 days of the bid deadline.
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Direct awards and tenders where every published lot count shows one bid.
Both shares are minimums: some awards have no bid count.
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Past bids do not predict this tender.
1 bid20% / 0%
2–320% / 23%
4–620% / 31%
7+40% / 46%
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On a framework or DPS, prices are agreed when work is called off.
Past prices are a guide, not a bid price.
Not comparable on a framework or DPS. The notice sets up a supplier panel and a ceiling value; what the work actually costs is agreed later, on each call-off or mini-competition, and those publish as contract notices of their own. The award-vs-estimate record of this market therefore sits on the call-offs; this page shows it on the contracts, not on the panel that frames them.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
Lot #2CPV 85100000Estimate not published
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How many bids this lot may attract.
The forecast uses similar past competitions. The bar shows either that forecast or past bid counts; the line below says which.
Each lot shows its own forecast based on its own category; forecasts for different lots of the same notice are not comparative. The bar shows 26 past lots.
A forecast, not a list of bidders.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
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Who has done similar work for this buyer.
Past contracts are matched by buyer, title and type of work.
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Who could compete for this lot?
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None is confirmed as a bidder.
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Who could compete for this lot?
Firms with relevant past wins. On a framework, we show firms on that agreement.
None is confirmed as a bidder.
Candidate suppliers for this notice have not been worked out yet, so this is not a verdict that nobody fits.
About this data
- Source. Official UK public procurement notices (Find a Tender), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. New notices arrive through the day; the figures are rebuilt nightly.
- Two views, kept apart. The authority’s own track record and the wider market for the same kind of work sit side by side and are never mixed. Where the local picture is too thin, a figure widens to a broader market and says which one it used.
- Forecasts are labelled. The price forecast and its range, possible competitors and the earlier-work matches are our estimates from past awards: not published facts, not win chances and not price advice. Official notices do not say who is bidding.
- Every figure shows what it rests on. Not every notice publishes a bid count, a value or a delivery region, so each figure carries the number of records behind it, and one built on few records is marked as such. The on a figure explains it; the counting rules are in the methodology. Spotted something wrong? Tell us.
Procedure terms & legal framework
From the official record · publisher note attached- Legal basis
- CELEX · 32014L0024 Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (Directive 2014/24/EU)
- Procurement category
- Services
- Notice status
- Planned procurement
- Procurement threshold
- Unspecified in notice
- Regulatory regime
- Standard
- Commercial structure
- Framework agreement
- Who may use this agreement
- Not stated in the notice; call-off rights may be limited to the establishing authority
- Competition type
- Competitive procedure
- GPA / WTO covered
- Unspecified in notice
- Recurring procurement
- Unspecified in notice
- First published
- 25 Mar 2024, 12:05 GMT
- Last source update
- 25 Mar 2024, 12:05 GMT
- Authority reference
PRJ-2006- FTS notice number
2024/S 000-009579- Classification (CPV)
- Delivery area
- Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-044c4bFind a Tender
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How it was run
Official notice- Appointment period ends
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Timeline
25 Mar 2024 → 10 May 2035 · 2 dates- Notice published25 Mar 2024, 12:05 GMT
- Today22 Oct 2026
- Tender notice expected10 May 2035, 00:00 BST
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