Tender

Vaccine Volunteer Support

NHS ENGLAND

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Tender

13 Jul 2022 at 13:34

Summary of the contracting process

NHS England is currently running an open tender titled "Vaccine Volunteer Support," focused on community health services in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The procurement process aims to secure a supplier for managing a trained volunteer workforce to aid healthcare professionals in administering vaccines across England. The contract has an estimated value of £13 million and is set to commence on 26th September 2022, with an end date of 31st March 2023, although there is an option to extend the contract by up to 24 months. Bids for this opportunity must be submitted by 15th August 2022, and the contract will be awarded on the same day as bid opening.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses involved in workforce management, training, and healthcare services, particularly those that have experience with volunteer programmes or public health initiatives. Organisations that can demonstrate capacity to provide a flexible and sustainable workforce will be well-suited to compete for this contract. The ability to align training standards with NHS requirements and to facilitate effective volunteer engagement across varying healthcare settings could differentiate successful bidders.

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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.

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

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

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