Notice Information
Notice Title
Vaccine Volunteer Support
Notice Description
As part of the response to the Covid-19 global pandemic, NHS England (NHSE) established a programme for the deployment of approved vaccines to the population of England. To support the programme, NHSE procured a volunteer workforce that was trained and authorised to provide assistance to clinically registered health care professionals to administer the vaccine. NHSE is seeking to facilitate continuity of this provision via an open tender process.
Lot Information
Lot 1
The Workforce and Training workstream is responsible for the design, resourcing, training and sustainability of workforce to enable programme delivery. The workstream informs programme strategy, works with all other programme workstreams, with regional and sub-regional programme and workforce leads. It is responsible for national design, training, and contracting to support workforce deployment and assurance, to ensure there is sufficient workforce in place to meet demand across England.
As part of its ongoing legal obligation to deliver the Programme, NHS England is inviting organisations that are capable of providing and managing suitably qualified and trained volunteers to bid for the opportunity, recently shared to the open market, to provide the Services, detailed in the ITT. Bidders will be required to respond to this opportunity within the published tender and to the dates detailed.
NHSE is seeking to appoint one provider of the Services nationally that health care providers can call upon to assist delivery of the Programme.
The procurement is designed to secure a supplier to continue the provision of Vaccination Volunteers and associated services that provide and enable the provision of support to clinical services to the Programme, needed to continue delivery of the Covid 19 and flu Vaccine Deployment for approximately 6 months, until the provisional end date of 31st March 2023, with the option of extending up to a maximum contract duration of 24 months.
The key objectives of the procurement are to award a contract that delivers the following:
- Workforce that is suitable, sustainable, and resilient
- Contingency workforce (surge) capability
- Alignment to the minimum training standards and
competencies to ensure safe and efficient delivery
of the vaccine
- A volunteer workforce that is representative of the
communities they serve
- Flexible provision of limited mobile or 'roving'
services
- NHS Regional and systems engagement, across all
delivery settings
- External and commercial supplier contracting and
engagement
- Business intelligence, digital management, and
analytical services
- Commercial and contract management
- Programme governance
The value of the contract is estimated to cost between: PS4.5m - PS13m. Depending on whether extensions detailed in the ITT are utilized.
Renewal: The contract will initially be offered with expiration to March 31st 2023. an option will exist to extend the Contract for further periods to bring the total contract period up to a total of 12, 18 or 24 months from the initial date of contract commencement.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-035198
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/019184-2022
- Current Stage
- Tender
- All Stages
- Tender
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- Tender Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Open procedure
- Tender Suitability
- Not specified
- Awardee Scale
- Not specified
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85100000 - Health services
85323000 - Community health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £13,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Lots Value
- £13,000,000 £10M-£100M
- Awards Value
- Not specified
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 13 Jul 20223 years ago
- Submission Deadline
- 15 Aug 2022Expired
- Future Notice Date
- Not specified
- Award Date
- Not specified
- Contract Period
- 25 Sep 2022 - 31 Mar 2023 6-12 months
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Active
- Lots Status
- Active
- Awards Status
- Not Specified
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS ENGLAND
- Contact Name
- Senior Procurement Manager
- Contact Email
- england.commercialqueries@nhs.net
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- LEEDS
- Postcode
- LS2 7UE
- Post Town
- Leeds
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLE Yorkshire and The Humber
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLE4 West Yorkshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLE42 Leeds
- Delivery Location
- Not specified
-
- Local Authority
- Leeds
- Electoral Ward
- Little London & Woodhouse
- Westminster Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley
Further Information
Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS)
View full OCDS Record for this contracting process
The Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS) is a framework designed to increase transparency and access to public procurement data in the public sector. It is widely used by governments and organisations worldwide to report on procurement processes and contracts.
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