Children and Young People's Community Immunisation Service in London

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This Prior Information Notice (PIN) notifies the market of the intention of NHS England (London Region) hereafter referred to as "the Authority" to undertake a procurement for Children and Young People's community Immunisation Service (CYPCIS) in London. NHS England London Region is looking to commission service providers for the delivery of Section 7A immunisation programmes in London for 5 ICB geographical areas for children and young people between the ages of 0-19 years. The commissioned service provider for each ICB area will be expected to deliver a range of community and school aged immunisations to those eligible as per the Green Book and JCVI recommendations. The immunisation programmes set within the Section 7A portfolio include: 1. Neonatal BCG immunisation programme (for those at risk of exposure and/or TB infection aged 0-1 year, in line with Green Book recommendations) 2. Seasonal childhood influenza immunisation programme in accordance with the Annual Flu Letter each year 3. Adolescent MenACWY immunisation programme 4. Adolescent School Leaver Booster- Td/IPV (Tetanus, Diphtheria, and Polio) 5. Adolescent HPV immunisation programme 6. Immunisation "catch-up" immunisation opportunities (this includes but not limited to checking immunisation status, and if uncertain or incomplete to administer MMR1/MMR2) 7. Vaccine Preventable Disease outbreak response in education and community settings (0-19 years) 8. Contribute to outreach, through Provider collaboration and support for delivery of immunisations in Primary Care and community settings. The contract term is for a period of five (5) years. The annual total contract value, across London based on current investment is approximately £14.8m. For each of the 5 geographical areas, the approximate current values are as follows: NCL - £2.1m NEL - £4.0m NWL - £2.9m SEL - £2.9m SWL - £2.5m To note, current investment, as described, does not take into account additional tariff based investment for the delivery of the opportunistic (catch-up) immunisation in schools for children and young people presenting with an uncertain or incomplete immunisation status. For these programmes (excluding 1-5 above), the investment is based on a tariff priced at £10.06 per dose of vaccine administered and for the delivery of outbreak response. The Authority would like to invite interested and suitably qualified providers to attend a Market Engagement Event. The event will be held on: Tuesday 09 May 2023 from 09:00 to 12:00 Novotel London Bridge 53-61 Southwark Bridge Road London SE1 9HH The Market engagement event provides an ideal opportunity to meet with NHS England London Region Public Health Commissioning representatives and to find out the expectations of service delivery, potential procurement and contracting process may work. Additional information: Further detail on the Market Engagement Event: An indicative agenda is as follows: - Introduction; - Outline of the event; - Public health importance of the childhood lifecourse immunisation programmes Population Health (Health Needs Assessment) - Commissioning Overview; - NHS landscape - Commissioning Model - Review of service content - Procurement Process; - Question and Answer session. Please be advised that it may be necessary to share the names and contact details of all attendees for the market event to facilitate networking amongst providers. Parties will be able to opt out of the sharing of details by completing the attendee registration form available on the portal. Please note this is purely a market engagement exercise to provide information, gather feedback and generate and gauge interest in this contract opportunity and can instead be categorised as pre-procurement market engagement. As space is limited two people per organisation will be eligible to attend. The contract opportunity will be open to the entire market and the interest and feedback received at the market event will be used to inform the final procurement process. The details of the subsequent procurement are not finalised and may change. The final details of the procurement will be confirmed in the Contract Opportunity Notice or Contracts Notice to be published in due course. The purpose of this PIN is to inform the market of a possible procurement. In issuing this PIN and engaging with the market, the Authority is not committing to carrying out any procurement. The services in the scope of this procurement fall within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).