Prior Information Notice (PIN) for the Provision of Integrated Healthcare Services at HMP Gartree & HMP Whatton

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Prior Information Notice (PIN) for the Provision of Integrated Healthcare Services at HMP Gartree & HMP Whatton Duration of the contract: 5 years + 1 + 1 (two 1 year possible extension subject to annual reviews) = 7 years Description of the procurement opportunity: Arden and Greater East Midlands Commissioning Support Unit (AG CSU), acting on behalf of the NHS England (Health and Justice, North Midlands) (The commissioners) invites expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced healthcare service providers including third sector organisations, social enterprise and other providers to provide Integrated Offender Healthcare Services (IHS) to prisoners at HMP Gartree & HMP Whatton. NHS England (Health and Justice, North Midlands) will be the contracting and commissioning authority for IHS. Since the service provision requirements at both of the prisons are same and they share common service specification, performance framework, and service objectives it is the commissioners’ intention to use procurement with two lots to identify and appoint providers for each of these prisons i.e. 1. HMP Gartree 2. HMP Whatton The service provision will cater all adult prisoners and fulfil their regular healthcare needs. The current contracts for the IHS will end on 31 March 2017 and as a result the successful providers are expected to be fully operational, providing services from 01 April 2017. Based on the current contract it is anticipated that the value of the contract will be as below#: 1. HMP Gartree - circa £2.7 million per annum 2. HMP Whatton - circa £2.5 million per annum For this service provision AG CSU would like to encourage innovative solutions including consortia, strategic alliances and sub-contracts which will deliver value for money and improved services to patients. The service providers will be required to deliver an outcome based high quality Integrated Healthcare service to include provision of below listed services and coordination amongst them: 1 General practice 2 Nursing including nurse practitioner 3 Dentistry 4 Optometry 5 Podiatry 6 Community pharmacy 7 Physiotherapy 8 Mental health 9 Secondary mental health 10 Learning disability 11 Sexual health 12 Smoking cessation services 13 Health promotion 14 Management of Escorts and Bed watches 15 Clinical Waste Management 16 Substance misuse – clinical and psychosocial For further information regarding this opportunity please see the document attached here with this advertisement. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- # Contract value and activity levels have been derived based on the past experience. There is no guarantee that they will remain at these levels in the future. The actual contract value and activity levels may defer during the period of service provision.