Health and social work services

Tender description

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a commissioning support service hosted by NHS England and is managing this Request for Information (RFI) and a future procurement process for the provision of a proposed 5 to 19 years vaccination and immunisation and childhood flu service for NHS England North (Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership) (the Contracting Authority). The Contracting Authority is issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) as a RFI to engage with the market and to gather information, in order to gain a better understanding of both the capacity and appetite of the market in delivering the proposed 5 to 19 years vaccination and immunisation and childhood flu service, and to alert the market to a future tender opportunity for the provision of 5 to 19 years vaccination and immunisation and childhood flu service across Greater Manchester. The Contracting Authority is issuing this Prior Information Notice (PIN) as a RFI to engage with the market and to gather information, in order to gain a better understanding of both the capacity and appetite of the market in delivering the proposed 5 to 19 years vaccination and immunisation and childhood flu service, and to alert the market to a future tender opportunity for the provision of 5 to 19 years vaccination and immunisation and childhood flu service across Greater Manchester. It is important to note that this PIN/RFI is not a call for competition and as such you will need to express your interest in any future tender opportunity once the contract notice is published in OJEU and on contracts finder (approximately January 2019 for a contract start date of 1.4.2019, leading to service commencement in September 2019). 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 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 (Proactis) to manage this RFI and as such interested individuals and organisations will need to register on the portal to access the RFI documentation and return their completed RFI documentation. The Transfer of Undertakings (protection of employment) Regulations 2006 (as amended) 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 22.10.2018 and completed RFI responses must be returned by 12:00 noon on 5.11.2018. Please download the following attachments which are available to providers to further inform the submission of the respective RFI: — Appendix A: RFI Response Document, — Appendix B: Draft Service Specification. Please return the completed Appendix A: RFI Response Document by 12:00 noon on 5.11.2018.