Health services

Tender description

Providers within the marketplace are being provided notice in accordance with the framework of the intention to reopen the framework and framework lots. The framework was awarded as a bespoke process, and is being re-opened under the ‘Light Touch Regime’ of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, with the original requirements of completion of a Qualification Questionnaire to qualify for acceptance onto the framework agreement. The framework is split into five lots: Lot 1 — Individual Independent Investigations Lot 2 — Partnership Investigations Lot 3 — Local Care Systems Lot 4 — Health and Social Care and Partners Investigations Lot 5 — Systematic Independent Investigations. The contracting authorities do not intend to hold themselves bound by any Regulations, save those applicable to Schedule 3 Services. Further information will be available when the framework is reopened. This notice is not a call for competition. The framework is divided into lots that meets the technical and geographic requirements for the NHS. The procurement is intended to commence in November 2020 with a call for competition notice published in OJEU. It remains the NHS’s intention to have in place a flexible and responsive framework to enable the NHS to comply with the NHS Serious Incident Framework. This framework will open and be for the use of all NHS Organisations. This framework will be let on behalf of NHSE working in partnership with East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub.