NHSE899 - Invitation to Tender - Yorkshire & The Humber - School Aged Immunisations Services (Including Flu)

Description

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a care system support organisation and has managed this procurement process for the provision of School Aged Immunisation Services (Including Flu) for and on behalf of NHS England North East & Yorkshire - Yorkshire & The Humber (YH) (the Contracting Authority).
The Contracting Authority is procuring a School Aged Immunisation Services (Including Flu) (SAIS) for a contract commencement date of 01 September 2023 for an initial contract term of 5-years with the option to extend the contract for 2-years at the discretion of the Contracting Authority and subject to satisfactory financial and contractual performance across 14 Lots as follows:
Lot 1 - Bradford & Airedale
Lot 2 - Wakefield
Lot 3 - Calderdale
Lot 4 - Kirklees
Lot 5 - Leeds
Lot 6 - Rotherham
Lot 7 - Sheffield
Lot 8 - Doncaster
Lot 9 - Barnsley
Lot 10 - North Yorkshire & York
Lot 11 - East Riding of Yorkshire
Lot 12 - Hull
Lot 13 - North Lincolnshire .
Lot 14 - North East Lincolnshire
The required services for this procurement are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended by the Public Procurement (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 No 1319) (PCR 2015). Schedule 3 services are not subject to the full regime of PCR 2015 but are instead governed by the Light-Touch Regime (LTR)Chapter 3, Section 7, Regulations 74 to 77 of PCR 2015.
Neither the inclusion of a bidder selection stage, nor the use of any language or terms found in the PRC 2015, nor the description of the procedure voluntarily adopted by the Contracting Authority ('Open', 'Restricted', 'Competitive Procedure with Negotiation', 'Competitive Dialogue', 'Innovation Partnership' or any other description), nor any other indication, shall be taken to mean that the Contracting Authority intends to hold itself bound by PCR 2015, save by the provisions applicable to services coming within the scope of Schedule 3 of PCR 2015.
The Contracting Authority has run a transparent tender process, treating all bidders equally and has followed the basic principles of the Open Procedure(Regulation 27 of PCR 2015) to test the capacity, capability, technical and financial competence of bidders.
Tender documentation was available from 12:00 noon on 28 November 2022 and the closing time and date for tender returns was 12:00 noon on 09 January 2023.
"Under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 Contracting Authority must consider:
- How what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social, and environmental well-being of the area where they exercise their functions.
- How, in conducting the process of procurement, they might act with a view to securing that improvement.
- Whether to undertake any consultation on the above.
Accordingly, the subject matter of the contract has been scoped to take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authority relating to "economic, social, and environmental well-being" by utilising the UK Governments Social Value Model.
This procurement was conducted using an e-tendering portal (In-Tend). The In-Tend portal can be found at: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/nhsnecsu (Bidders were asked to follow the registration instructions if they are not already registered) and search for the project NHSE899 Invitation to Tender - Yorkshire & The Humber - School Aged Immunisations Services (Including Flu). 
Please note that it is free to register on In-Tend, which can be accessed at any time of day as long as you have a working internet connection. Should tenderers have had any queries regarding In-Tend a dedicated helpdesk was available and could be contacted on +44 8442728810 or email: [email protected]
The Contracting Authority and NECS reserved the right to cancel the tender process at any point and would not be held liable for any costs resulting from any cancellation of the tender process or for any other costs incurred by those tendering for the contract.