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Quality Improvement Support for PCN Test sites

Buyer: NHS England →

BuyerNHS England
Statusplanning
DeadlineNot published
Value£1,500,000
Published2 Apr 2025

What is being bought

The PCN Test Site programme is a quantitative data gathering exercise to better understand demand and capacity in general practice and to explore solutions to close any gap. Those solutions include additional capacity and the PCNs working on quality improvement (QI) projects. We are looking for experienced facilitators to support the PCNs to deliver their QI projects. These projects are on a range of areas - such as improving access, continuity, medicines management and proactive care.  Feedback from the PCN test sites has identified the need for external facilitation to support an action learning set approach coupled with some 1:1 coaching. Specifically, they want facilitators who have depth of experience in general practice as well as have a successful track record in facilitating clinical leaders around quality improvement. Providing QI support to the PCN test sites will help them realise their improvement plans and bring about lasting change. NHSE will conduct a pre-market engagement event via Microsoft Teams on April 11th at 10am to help shape the specification. Potential suppliers are invited to register their interest in the event by completing this document (Appendix 1) and returning the document electronically by uploading via the Health Family eCommercial Portal by 5pm on Tuesday 8th April 2025. Your attendance to the event is voluntary. Failing to participate in this process will in no way preclude your organisation from participating in any future related tender exercise. The presentation slides from the event and any discussion notes will be circulated with the tender if a decision is made to continue in due course. NHS England's intention is to reserve judgement on its strategy for commissioning new services until after the conclusion of this market engagement exercise. Any future service provision will be undertaken in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023.

Categories

Health services 85100000

Lot details

Lot 1

No lot description published.

Statusplanning
Contract periodFrom 1 Oct 2025 to 1 Oct 2027
SME suitabilitySuitable for SMEs

What is included

ItemCategoryQuantity
1Health servicesNot published

Comparable-procurement analytics

Benchmarked against retained Find a Tender procedures with CPV division 85. The category anchor is Health services (85100000); this is a deliberately broad market comparator. The comparison is shown at several levels rather than pretending one company or region is always the best benchmark.

Comparison setProceduresReported bids per procedureNamed award suppliersPrice evidence
Market: CPV division 8538,3711 median · 19.7 average (22,930 of 38,371 with a bid count)1.8 average (24,591 of 38,371 with named award suppliers)10 comparable price pairs
Same buyer39Not publishedNot publishedNot published
Similar published value (0.5×–2×)1,3544 median · 9 average (32 of 1,354 with a bid count)1.5 average (33 of 1,354 with named award suppliers)3 comparable price pairs

“Reported bids” is an official aggregate, sometimes reported per lot; it is the closest available competition measure. “Named award suppliers” are winners, not all applicants.

Indicative price outcome

£975,899 is the median lowest-valid-bid benchmark for the broad CPV market sample, against this procedure’s published value of £1,500,000.

This is a historical comparator, not a bid-price forecast or a guaranteed saving. It excludes records where the published values cannot be sensibly compared and does not adjust for lot structure, quality weighting, framework terms or scope.

Procurement strategy & market signals

Framework agreementNot published
Dynamic purchasing systemNot published
Competitive procurementNot published
Recurring requirementNot published
Procurement method rationaleNot published
Rationale classificationsNot published
Special regimeNot published
Covered byNot published
Submission policyNot published
Selection criteriaNot published
Risk detailsNot published

Planning & early market engagement

BudgetValue not published
No-engagement rationaleNot published
Planning documents1
Planning milestones1
MilestoneTypeDueStatus
The PCN Test Site programme is a quantitative data gathering exercise to better understand demand and capacity in general practice and to explore solutions to close any gap. Those solutions include additional capacity and the PCNs working on quality improvement (QI) projects. We are looking for experienced facilitators to support the PCNs to deliver their QI projects. These projects are on a range of areas - such as improving access, continuity, medicines management and proactive care.  Feedback from the PCN test sites has identified the need for external facilitation to support an action learning set approach coupled with some 1:1 coaching. Specifically, they want facilitators who have depth of experience in general practice as well as have a successful track record in facilitating clinical leaders around quality improvement. Providing QI support to the PCN test sites will help them realise their improvement plans and bring about lasting change. NHSE will conduct a pre-market engagement event via Microsoft Teams on April 11th at 10am to help shape the specification. Potential suppliers are invited to register their interest in the event by emailing - chris.marston@nhs.net - with their supplier name and email addresses of all members of the team who would like to join the call. The deadline for registering your interest is 5pm on April 8th. Your attendance to the event is voluntary. Failing to participate in this process will in no way preclude your organisation from participating in any future related tender exercise. The presentation slides from the event and any discussion notes will be circulated with the tender if a decision is made to continue in due course. NHS England's intention is to reserve judgement on its strategy for commissioning new services until after the conclusion of this market engagement exercise. Any future service provision will be undertaken in accordance with the Procurement Act 2023.engagement9 May 2025scheduled

Related procurements

No linked framework, prior procurement or reprocurement published.

Documents & submission route

Source data inventory

Diagnostic view. “Not published” means this current release does not provide a value.

OCIDocds-h6vhtk-04fb97
Latest release ID012443-2025
Latest release timestampWed Apr 02 2025 09:47:42 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Sourcefind-a-tender
Official notice URLNot published
Tender statusplanning
Procurement methodNot published
Procurement method detailsNot published
Main procurement categoryservices
Above thresholdYes
Legal basis2023/54
Tender period: startNot published
Tender period: endNot published
Expression of interest deadlineNot published
Enquiry deadlineNot published
Award period: startNot published
Award period: endNot published
Submission method detailsNot published
Submission languagesNot published
Electronic catalogue policyNot published
Total tender value£1,500,000
Tender lots in source1
Tender items in source1
Tender documents in source0
Awards in latest release0
Contracts in latest release0
Parties in latest release1

Notice history

DateEventReference
2 Apr 2025planningUpdate012443-2025
1 Apr 2025planning012362-2025

All source data

Unmodified official OCDS data retained by Tenderline for this procurement process.

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