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Published 22 Apr 2022, 15:26 BST

Official UK procurement notice

NHSE499 - RFI - North East and Yorkshire Region – School-Aged Immunisation Services (Including Flu)

Official notice

Authority: NHS England & NHS Improvement (North East & Yorkshire) (NHS & healthcare)

27 lotsServices

Sectors: Health & Social Care (85) Delivery: North East (UKC)Yorkshire & Humber (UKE)

Planned pipeline valueValue not publishedpipeline notice, not a live tender

Tender notice expected 22 Jul 2022from the planned procurement notice

Lots 27see the lot list below

What is being bought27 lots · detail below

Published requirement description

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a care system support organisation and is managing this market engagement exercise and a possible future procurement process for the provision of a North East and Yorkshire Region - School-Aged Immunisation Services (Including Flu) for NHS England and NHS Improvement North East and Yorkshire (Yorkshire & Humber) and (North East & North Cumbria) (the Contracting Authorities).

This Request for Information (RFI) process is being undertaken to engage with the market to inform the further development of draft proposals for future service delivery of comprehensive School-Aged Immunisation Services (Including Flu) to be delivered across Yorkshire & Humber and North East & North Cumbria covering the following areas.

Yorkshire & Humber:

Lot 1 - Bradford & Airedale - Cohorts 73,651

Lot 2 – Wakefield - Cohorts 38,857

Lot 3 – Calderdale - Cohorts 26,290

Lot 4 – Kirklees - Cohorts 40,401

Lot 5 – Leeds - Cohorts 91,947

Lot 6 – Rotherham - Cohorts 31,995

Lot 7 – Sheffield - Cohorts 58,707

Lot 8 – Doncaster - Cohorts 34,289

Lot 9 – Barnsley - Cohorts 25,545

Lot 10 - North Yorkshire & York - Cohorts 74,092

Lot 11 - East Riding of Yorkshire - Cohorts 33,509

Lot 12 – Hull - Cohorts 30,720

Lot 13 - North Lincolnshire - Cohorts 18,380

Lot 14 - North East Lincolnshire - Cohorts 18,264

North East & North Cumbria:

Lot 15 - North Cumbria - Cohorts 48,070

Lot 16 - Northumberland - Cohorts 31,161

Lot 17 - North Tyneside - Cohorts 21,749

Lot 18 - Newcastle - Cohorts 29,801

Lot 19 - South Tyneside - Cohorts 15,544

Lot 20 - Sunderland - Cohorts 27,734

Lot 21 - Gateshead - Cohorts 20,324

Lot 22 - County Durham - Cohorts 55,180

Lot 23 - Darlington - Cohorts 12,290

Lot 24 - Stockton on Tees - Cohorts 23,203

Lot 25 - Hartlepool - Cohorts 10,400

Lot 26 - Middlesbrough - Cohorts 16,718

Lot 27 - Redcar and Cleveland - Cohorts 14,979

The objective of the RFI is to:

Understand market Capability and Capacity to deliver the service.
Understand the preferred contractual model for delivering the service.
Understand if the service model is viable and sustainable for the length of the contract.
Understand the preferred / most viable contract length.
Understand if there are any financial risks with the delivery of the service.
Understand the mobilisation requirements of the service.
Understand the premises requirements for the service.
Understand any barriers to bidding and whole service risk; and
Understand the social value deliverable's of the service.

The RFI documentation will be accessible from 12:00 noon on 25 April 2022 and completed RFI responses must be submitted by 12.00 noon on 06 May 2022.

A future procurement opportunity for NHSE499 North East and Yorkshire Region – School-Aged Immunisation Services (Including Flu) could be published in July/August 2022.

CPV: Health and social work services

Lots and requirements (27)Procurement structure

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Showing the first 25 of 27 published lots; the full list is in the JSON and Markdown mirrors of this notice. 27 lots · no lot values published.

Shared scope across all lots

Applies to lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25.

The Contracting Authorities are issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) as a Request for Information (RFI) to gather market intelligence/information, to gain a better understanding of the capacity and appetite of the market in delivering the proposed North East and Yorkshire Region – School-Aged Immunisation Services (Including Flu) for the people in Yorkshire & Humber and North East & North Cumbria and to alert the market to a possible future tender opportunity.

It is important to note that this PIN/RFI is not a call for competition and as such potential providers will need to express interest in any future tender opportunity once a contract notice is published in Find a Tender Service and on Contracts Finder.

It should be noted that this PIN/RFI invites individuals and organisations to express an interest in this RFI exercise only, and it is NOT a pre-qualification questionnaire, and is NOT part of any pre-qualification or selection process.

This PIN/RFI is intended as an awareness, communication, and information gathering exercise. An expression of interest in this RFI exercise is no indication of a commitment to participate in the RFI process nor does it infer any preferential or special status on those individuals and organisations who express an interest in the RFI exercise.

NECS is utilising an electronic tendering portal (In-Tend) to manage this RFI and as such interested individuals and organisations will need to register on the portal to access the RFI documentation and return the completed RFI response document.

Please note that it is free to register on In-Tend, which can be accessed at any time of day if you have a working internet connection. The In-Tend portal can be found at: in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu ↗.

Potential providers are to note that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 as amended by the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (TUPE) may apply to a future procurement including the New Fair Deal non-statutory policy setting out how pensions issues are to be dealt with when staff are

compulsorily transferred from the public sector to independent providers delivering public services.

The RFI documentation will be accessible from 12:00 noon on 25 April 2022 and completed RFI responses must be submitted by 12.00 noon on 06 May 2022.

A future procurement opportunity for NHSE499 North East and Yorkshire Region – School-Aged Immunisation Services (Including Flu) could be published in July/August 2022.

Lot #1Bradford & AiredalePlanned Yorkshire & Humber

Delivery: Yorkshire & Humber · Bradford & Airedale - Eligible Cohorts 73,651

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