Integrated Healthcare Services to HMP Ford, HMP Lewes, and HMP/YOI Winchester

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        "description": "NHS England South East (NHSE) (the Commissioners) are seeking to recommission prime-provider led integrated healthcare services for HMP Ford and HMP Lewes (Lot 1).\nInterested providers should have the capacity and capability to provide an outcome focused, integrated and patient centred primary healthcare service, equivalent to that available to the local community, delivering physical health, mental health, substance misuse and dental services.   \nNHSE will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.\nHMP Ford is situated near Arundel in West Sussex. It is a category D open male prison, focused on the resettlement of prisoners, with an operational capacity of 389. \nHMP Lewes is situated in Lewes, East Sussex. It is a category B local remand and resettlement prison for young offenders and adult males remanded or sentenced to 12 months or less. It has an operational capacity of 623. \nThe services will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system both within the prisons and onwards into the community. The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions/services in prison and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care. \nThe services included in the contracts include (please refer to the service specification(s) for a full list of the services):\n•\tGeneral Practitioners Provision\n•\tPrimary Care Nursing (including long term conditions)\n•\tDental Services\n•\tPharmacy Services (including mechanism for Out of Hours provision)\n•\tInpatient Unit facility at HMP Lewes \n•\tSubstance Misuse Services (including Substance Misuse wing at HMP Lewes) \n•\tOptometry \n•\tPodiatry\n•\tAudiology\n•\tPrimary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services\n•\tHealth Promotion and Prevention\n•\tMusculoskeletal therapies\n•\tSmoking cessation\n•\tBlood Born Viruses testing to include funding, access and delivery (including provision of testing facilities where necessary).\n•\tConsultant-led Pain management clinic(s)\n•\tTherapies\n•\tSexual Health screening - Tiers (1, 2)\n•\tEscort and Bedwatch Services (via a risk share agreement)\n•\tAppropriate administrative and data management support (including data intelligence and reporting resource; data and intelligence analysis)\nIn addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with secondary care / community based specialist health provision, including hospital based services, to meet patient's health needs.\nThe Contract is due to commence on the 1st April 2027 for a term of 7 years. \nThe maximum total contract value is £54,663,063. \nTUPE is likely to apply.",
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    "description": "NHS England South East (NHSE) (the Commissioners) are seeking to recommission prime-provider led integrated healthcare services for HMP Ford, HMP Lewes, and HMP/YOI Winchester. \nInterested providers should have the capacity and capability to provide outcome focused, integrated and patient centred primary healthcare services, equivalent to those available to the local community, delivering physical health, mental health, substance misuse and dental services.   \nNHSE will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.\nThe procurement is divided into the following Lots: \n•\tLot 1: HMP Ford and HMP Lewes\n•\tLot 2: HMP/YOI Winchester\nThe services will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system both within the prisons and onwards into the community. The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions/services in prison and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care. \nThe services included in the contracts include (please refer to the service specification(s) for a full list of the services):\n•\tGeneral Practitioners Provision\n•\tPrimary Care Nursing (including long term conditions)\n•\tDental Services\n•\tPharmacy Services (including mechanism for Out of Hours provision)\n•\tInpatient Unit facility at HMP Lewes and HMP/YOI Winchester\n•\tSubstance Misuse Services (including Substance Misuse wings at HMP Lewes and HMP/YOI Winchester) Optometry \n•\tPodiatry\n•\tAudiology\n•\tPrimary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services\n•\tHealth Promotion and Prevention\n•\tMusculoskeletal therapies\n•\tSmoking cessation\n•\tBlood Born Viruses testing to include funding, access and delivery (including provision of testing facilities where necessary).\n•\tConsultant-led Pain management clinic(s)\n•\tTherapies\n•\tSexual Health screening - Tiers (1, 2)\n•\tSocial Care provision - HMP Winchester only via a Section 75 agreement with the Local Authority\n•\tEscort and Bedwatch Services (via a risk share agreement)\n•\tAppropriate administrative and data management support (including data intelligence and reporting resource; data and intelligence analysis)\nIn addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with secondary care / community based specialist health provision, including hospital based services, to meet patient's health needs.\nThe Contract is due to commence on the 1st April 2027 for HMP Ford and HMP Lewes. The maximum total contract value is £54,663,063. \nThe Contract is due to commence on the 1st July 2027 for HMP/YOI Winchester. The maximum total contract value is £49,994,000. \nThe Contract term, for all establishments, will be 7 years. \nTUPE is likely to apply. \nInterested parties who wish to take part in the procurement are invited to take part in an Invitation to Tender (ITT) process, based on the competitive 'open' procedure. All ITT responses must be returned by 12 noon on 31st July 2026, at the latest.\nInterested providers will be able to view the opportunity and access the tender documentation via the 'Live Opportunities' list on the e-procurement system, Atamis, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome\nThe procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioner. SCW is currently subject to restructuring, and the management of this procurement may therefore move to a successor at some point during the procurement process.  Bidders will be informed of any such change, and any administrative changes because of it.",
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  "description": "Interested providers will be able to view this opportunity via the live opportunities list on the 'Health Family' e-procurement system, Atamis. Click on 'View our Live Opportunities' from the home page, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome.\nOnce you have found the opportunity (via the search function, using the title or reference number), to gain full access to the bid documentation (including questionnaires), you will need to click on 'Register interest' - this will take you to the log-in page. \nIf you are not already registered on the system, you will need to do so before gaining full access to the documentation and be able to submit a bid. \nEarly engagement market notices were published in relation to this procurement in December 2025 and April 2026, in order to facilitate early engagement with potential providers and advertise a market engagement event. Although those who responded to that notice may be advised that this contract notice has been published, there will be no process exemptions or preferential treatment afforded to any parties who expressed an interest at that stage.\nThis is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) Contract Notice. The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and The Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award.",
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        "description": "This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice (PIN) to inform the market of NHS England Health and Justice South East's, (the Commissioner's) intention to recommission services for HMP Ford, HMP Lewes, and HMP/YOI Winchester. It follows a previous PIN (2025/S 000-085390), published in December 2025, which invited interested parties to attend a market engagement event due to held in February 2026. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event had to be postponed. The purpose of this PIN is to inform the market of the revised date for the event.\nThe Commissioner's intention is to recommission outcome focused, integrated primary healthcare services within the establishments, equivalent to that available to the local community, delivering physical health, mental health, substance misuse and dental services.  \nThe Commissioners will be contracting the services using a prime provider model and will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.\nAt this time, the Commissioner would like to understand the level of provider interest in delivering the services and warmly invites interested parties to attend a market engagement event being held on:\nFriday 24th April 2026 between 10:00 - 15:00 at Multifunction Space (Ground Floor), Ordnance Survey, Explorer House, Adanac Drive, Southampton, SO16 0AS.\nThe purpose of the event will be to share further detail of the commissioner's aims and objectives for the services, as well as provide an opportunity for commissioners to obtain valuable feedback from providers and key stakeholders to help inform the commissioning strategy. Details on how to register to attend the event are provided below.  \nHMP Ford is situated near Arundel in West Sussex. It is a category D open male prison, focused on the resettlement of prisoners, with an operational capacity of 389. \nHMP Lewes is situated in Lewes, East Sussex. It is a category B local remand and resettlement prison for young offenders and adult males remanded or sentenced to 12 months or less. It has an operational capacity of 624. \nHMP/YOI Winchester is located in Winchester, Hampshire. It is a category B local prison that serves the local courts, with a small category C resettlement unit (West Hill). The prison houses sentenced and remand young offender and adult males and has an operational capacity of 678.  \nThe services will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system both within the prisons and onwards into the community. The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions/services in prison and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care. \nThe services that are likely to be included in the contracts include, but may not limited to:\n•\tGeneral Practitioners Provision\n•\tPrimary Care Nursing (including long term conditions)\n•\tDental Services\n•\tPharmacy Services (including mechanism for Out of Hours provision)\n•\tInpatient Unit facility at HMP Lewes and HMP/YOI Winchester\n•\tSubstance Misuse Services (including Substance Misuse wings at HMP Lewes and HMP/YOI Winchester) Optometry \n•\tPodiatry\n•\tAudiology\n•\tPrimary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services\n•\tHealth Promotion and Prevention\n•\tMusculoskeletal therapies\n•\tSmoking cessation\n•\tBlood Born Viruses testing to include funding, access and delivery (including provision of testing facilities where necessary).\n•\tConsultant-led Pain management clinic(s)\n•\tTherapies\n•\tSexual Health screening - Tiers (1, 2)\n•\tSocial Care provision - HMP Winchester only via a Section 75 agreement with the Local Authority\n•\tEscort and Bedwatch Services (via a risk share agreement)\n•\tAppropriate administrative and data management support (including data intelligence and reporting resource; data and intelligence analysis)\nIn addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with secondary care / community based specialist health provision, including hospital based services, to meet patient's health needs.\nFor further information on the services, please refer to the national service specifications, available at:\n•\tprimary-care-service-spec-medical-nursing-for-prisons-2020.pdf\n•\tdental-service-spec-prisons-2020.pdf\n•\tservice-specification-mental-health-for-prisons-in-england-2.pdf\n•\tservice-specification-integrated-substance-misuse-treatment-service-in-prisons.pdf\nThe final specifications, including some specific local tailoring as determined by the Commissioner, will be published as part of the final procurement documentation. \nThe Commissioner anticipates commencing a competitive procurement process in the summer of 2026, with the view to award the contract/s by December 2026.  \nThe procurement is likely to be lotted as follows: \n•\tLot 1: HMP Ford and HMP Lewes\n•\tLot 2: HMP/YOI Winchester\nThe Contract term, for all establishments, is anticipated to be 7 years.\nContract commencement for HMP Ford and HMP Lewes is anticipated to be 1st April 2027. The maximum total (indicative) contract value is £52,700,000. \nContract commencement for HMP/YOI Winchester is anticipated to be 1st July 2027. The maximum total (indicative) contract value is £50,130,000. \nTUPE is likely to apply. \nThis exercise is being carried out by NHS South, Central & West (SCW) on behalf of the commissioners. Additional information: Those interested in attending the event and delivering (all or part of) the service requirements should follow the link to the e-procurement system, Atamis, search for the opportunity by clicking on 'View our Live Opportunities' from the home page, then complete the 'Market Engagement Event Registration Form' Microsoft (MS) Forms available within the system. \nPlease note that you will need to be registered on Atamis, and then select the option to 'register an interest' under the project titled 'Integrated Healthcare Services to Sussex and Winchester Prisons - ME', project reference C407428 to gain access to the MS Forms registration link.  \nhttps://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome   \nIn order to establish fair representation, availability for this event is limited to a maximum of two individuals per organisation. \nThe closing date for registering is 12 noon 15th April 2026. Further details of the event will be provided once the PIN has closed, to all respondents who have registered their interest and completed the registration form prior to this closing date. \nPlease note, the venue requires attendee details to be confirmed in advance of the event, therefore we will be unable to accept any changes to attendees after the closing date."
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  "description": "This notice is an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit the Authority or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. \nThe Authority will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise. Interested parties should note that a response to this notice does not guarantee an automatic invitation to any subsequent formal procurement, which the commissioners will consider in due course.  \nThis is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) prior information notice. The contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and The Procurement Act 2023 do not apply.",
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