Find a TenderPast planning notice
Published 11 Apr 2022, 10:26 BST

Official UK procurement notice

Prior Information Notice - International healthcare professionals recruitment and associated services

Official notice

Authority: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (Central government)

Services
Planned pipeline value£50,000,000pipeline notice, not a live tender
Tender notice expected 13 Jun 2022from the planned procurement notice

What is being bought

Published requirement description

Surrey and Borders NHS Foundation Trust as the Contracting Authority on behalf of NHS Commercial Solutions, in collaboration with North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative, NHS London Procurement Partnership, East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub and Crown Commercial Services, working together under the banner of the Workforce Alliance exploring the feasibility of using recruitment suppliers to support Central Government Departments and all other UK (and any Crown Dependencies) Public Sector Bodies identified at VI.3) (and any future successors to these organisations), including Central Government Departments and their Arm's Length Bodies and agencies, Non Departmental Public Bodies, NHS bodies and Local Authorities, Health, Police, Fire and Rescue, Education and Devolved Administrations in successfully attracting suitable healthcare professionals from overseas.

CPV: Recruitment services

The lotProcurement structure

single lot · no lot value published
Lot #1Although intention is that the contract will be divided into lots, the final lot…Planned

Although intention is that the contract will be divided into lots, the final lot structure is not yet decided and will be informed by the findings of our planned wider stakeholder and Market engagement. The agreed lot structure will be communicated in the Contract Notice and ITT.

It is intended that any resulting framework or dynamic purchasing system (DPS) will be able to meet the Healthcare and Social Care needs in line with the Long term and People Plans in relation to ethical recruitment and retention of permanent staff, covering the job roles as detailed in the links below

www.nhsemployers.org/articles/national-jo… ↗ www.nhsemployers.org/sites/default/files/… ↗

Please note, these job roles as listed are not exhaustive and will include other healthcare professionals as identified from time to time.

Any resulting framework dynamic purchasing system (DPS) will ensure that all recruitment activities will be ethical, ensure that overseas staff to be recruited are competent in their field of speciality, have English language skills to carry out their roles, ensure provision of Pastoral, training, and relocation prior to recruitment and to ensure to support a high level of retention of staff once recruited.

Delivery: UK

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
Past planning notice
Procurement threshold
Unspecified in notice
Regulatory regime
Standard
Commercial structure
Stand-alone contract (no framework)
Competition type
Competitive procedure
GPA / WTO covered
Yes (GPA)
Recurring procurement
Unspecified in notice
First published
11 Apr 2022, 10:26 BST
Last source update
11 Apr 2022, 10:26 BST
Authority reference
Project_4666
FTS notice number
2022/S 000-009581
Classification (CPV)
Recruitment services
Delivery area
UK
Official registry OCID
ocds-h6vhtk-032c08 Find a Tender

Publisher note: NHS Commercial Solutions will use an eSourcing system for this project. The eSourcing system we will use is Bravo Solutions. Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering, who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so. Please see below instructions on how to express an interest and for more information on this opportunity. 1. Please following instruction below if you need to register your company on the eSourcing portal a) Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://commercialsolutions.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register. Bravo Project reference = Project_4666 and reference = PIN_30223 Titled: “Procurement of a Framework Agreement for the provision of International Healthcare Professionals Recruitment & Associated Services." b) Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue’ - c) Enter your correct business and user details - Note the username you chose and click ‘Save’ when complete - You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure) d) to express an interest - Login to the portal with the username/password - Click the ‘PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers’ link. - Click PQQ_1113 to access the content. - Click the ‘Express Interest’ button at the top of the page. - This will move the PQQ /ITT into your ‘My PQQs/ My ITTs’ page. (This is a secure area reserved for your projects only). It should be noted that this is NOT the actual PQQ stage of the procurement. System limitations mean that the label states ‘PQQ’ but the opportunity is NOT yet live. You will be informed if, and when, the procurement goes live. e) Download the EOI form, accurately complete and upload to the Attachments Folder on the portal 1. Suppliers already registered on NHS Commercial Solution's Bravo Solutions portal, please following the click on the below link which will take you through to the Project and following d) and e) instructions above. https://commercialsolutions.bravosolution.co.uk/go/74846340017FDAEE882D PLEASE NOTE: The date in II.3) is the estimated date of publication, please refer the NHS Commercial Solutions website https://commercialsolutions.bravosolution.co.uk for updates and monitor Tenders Electronic Daily and Contracts Finder for the publication of the OJEU contract notice. NHS Commercial Solutions are the lead Authority, acting on behalf of ‘NHS Workforce Alliance’ a public sector collaboration comprising of; NHS Commercial Solutions, it’s offices are at: The Atrium, Curtis Road, Dorking, Surrey, RH4 1XA NHS London Procurement Partnership, it’s offices are at: 200 Great Dover Street, London SE1 4YB NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative, it’s offices are at: Don Valley House, Savile Street East, Sheffield, S4 7UQ NHS East of England Collaborative Procurement Hub, it’s offices are at: NHS Victoria House, Capital Park, Fulbourn, Cambridge, CB21 5XB and The Minister for the Cabinet Office represented by its executive agency the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), its offices are at: 9th Floor, The Capital, Old Hall Street, Liverpool L3 9PP.

How it was run

Official notice
Submission deadline
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Timeline

11 Apr 2022 → 13 Jun 2022 · 2 dates
  1. Notice published
    11 Apr 2022, 10:26 BST
  2. Tender notice expected
    13 Jun 2022, 00:00 BST

Commercial outcome & contract awards

Pipeline notice
Awards (0)
No award published
Contracts (0)
No contract published
Bid statistics
No aggregate bid statistics published

Contracting authority & participating public bodies

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of NHS Commercial Solutions

Contracting authorityCentral GovernmentRegional or local authorityHealth The Atrium. Curtis Road., Dorking, UK, RH4 1XAContact email, phone

Official documents & specifications

Official links; attachments are not copied

No document links were published on the notice.