NHSE834 - Request for Information - Primary Healthcare Services and Dental Services - Derwentside Immigration and Removal Centre.

The Contracting Authority is 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 Primary Healthcare Services and Dental Services under separate Lots for female only accommodation with a capacity of 84 beds at Derwentside Immigration and Removal Centre and to alert the market to a possible future tender opportunity.

Lot 1 - Primary Healthcare Services 1700000 GBP per annum for female only accommodation at a capacity of 84 beds.

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 complete and submit the on-line RFI questionnaire.

Please note that it is free to register on In-Tend, which can be accessed at any time if you have a working internet connection. The In-Tend portal can be found at:

in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu/aspx/Home ↗.

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 21 November 2022 and the RFI questionnaire must be completed on-line and submitted by 12.00 noon on 02 December 2022. Additional information: A future procurement opportunity for NHSE834 - Primary Healthcare Services and Dental Services under separate Lots for female only accommodation with a capacity of 84 beds at Derwentside Immigration and Removal Centre could be published in February 2023.

The Contracting Authority is 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 Primary Healthcare Services and Dental Services under separate Lots for female only accommodation with a capacity of 84 beds at Derwentside Immigration and Removal Centre and to alert the market to a possible future tender opportunity.

Lot 2 - Dental Services 86000 GBP per annum for female only accommodation at a capacity of 84 beds.

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 complete and submit the on-line RFI questionnaire.

Please note that it is free to register on In-Tend, which can be accessed at any time if you have a working internet connection. The In-Tend

portal can be found at: in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu/aspx/Home ↗.

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 21 November 2022 and the RFI questionnaire must be completed on-line and submitted by 12.00 noon on 02 December 2022. Additional information: A future procurement opportunity for NHSE834 - Primary Healthcare Services and Dental Services under separate Lots for female only accommodation with a capacity of 84 beds at Derwentside Immigration and Removal Centre could be published in February 2023.