Notice Information
Notice Title
Occupational Health with Needle Stick Injury Support Services
Notice Description
NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit is acting as an agent for NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB and NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB who are conducting this Invitation to Tender for Occupational Health (OH) and Needle Stick Injury Support Service. The Occupational Health and Needle stick Service needs to be accessible to all staff working in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent NHS primary care services, including general practice, community pharmacy, dentistry and optometry services. The service is currently delivered by a local provider; however, this contact is due to expire on 1st October 2025. Full details of the service are set out in the Service Specification within Annex 2, this can be accessed via Atamis. The service provider would be expected to have sufficient staff with competencies and skills in Occupational Health and to provide advice and support to those with needle stick injuries (including the provision of prophylactic management from needle stick injury) The proposed contact duration is 16 months with the option to extend for a further 2-years with mutual consent. The new contract would aim to commence on 1st October 2025. The proposed contract is a cost and volume contract with a current activity value is of approximately PS35,134 per annum. The total contract value for the initial 16 month contract period is PS52,612 and the lifetime value including the optional 2-year extension period is expected to be approximately PS276,320 ; this is for the Occupational Health Service and to support those with Needle Stick Injuries.
Planning Information
MLSCU is acting as an agent for NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB who are conducting this initial engagement exercise to establish potential interest to deliver an Occupational Health (OH) and Needle Stick Injury Service. The Occupational Health and Needle stick Service needs to be accessible to all staff working in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent NHS primary care services, including general practice, community pharmacy, dentistry and optometry services The service is currently delivered by a local provider; however, this contact is due to expire on 1st August 2025. Full details of the service are set out in the Service Specification within Annex 1 - please see section II.2.14 regarding how to access this documentation. The service provider would be expected to have sufficient staff with competencies and skills in Occupational Health and to provide advice and support to those with needle stick injuries (including the provision of prophylactic management from needle stick injury) The proposed contact duration is 18 months with the option to extend for a further 2-years with mutual consent. The new contract would aim to commence on 1st August 2025. The proposed contract is a cost and volume contract with a current activity value is of approximately £80,000 per annum. The total contract value for the 18 month contract period plus the optional 2-year extension period is expected to be approximately £256,000; this is for the Occupational Health Service and to support those with Needle Stick Injuries. It is possible that TUPE may apply to the award of any new contract for the above service. Potentially interested parties are invited to feedback their comments with regards to their interest, capacity, capability and readiness in delivering these services. Commissioners wish to understand; 1 Organisation name 2 Organisation contact details - Contact name - Phone number - Email address - Postal Address 3 Please confirm your current organisational structure (VCSE, Public Sector, Private Venture) - please include/attach an organisational chart where possible. 4 Are you currently providing a Occupational Health Service including Needle Stick Injuries If you are a private provider, are you providing services under an NHS Contract with an NHS Commissioner or NHS Trust? If so, please state which Commissioner / Trust your contract is with and provide contract start and end dates?" 5 Does you organisation have the capability, capacity and readiness to provide the service as per the draft service specification that is easily accessible from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent? If so, please provide further details. (The draft Service Specification will be accessible in the 'Documents' section within the Atamis project C340355.) Please provide an overview of your area of expertise and previous experience of delivering Occupational Health including Needle Stick Injuries 6 Please share any comments or feedback that you may have on the draft service specification based on your experience. 7 Given the need for Needle Stick Injury support as part of the Occupational Health service provision required as per the draft specification, would your organisation consider providing elements of this Service with a network of providers? 8 During working hours, the expectation is that an eligible worker at risk of a blood borne disease needs to be able to contact a triage hotline where they can receive urgent OH risk assessment at time of calling , outside of working hours this needs to then reviewed within a 48 hour triage. Please advise if you feel this is possible and how quickly your organisation can respond? Providers will only be considered if they are able to provide Needle Stick Injury Support Providers are requested to answer these questions within the Atamis requirements section when registering interest (via https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ref C340355) by 12:00 hours on Wednesday 16th April 2025. NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB is not bound to follow any particular procurement process at this stage. Responding to this EOI will not guarantee providers further involvement in any future process the ICB decides to follow. Should this Early Engagement lead to a Procurement process, providers will be required to register interest for this separately and should not rely on their response to this PIN notice. The ICB has not determined which Procurement process to follow at this stage of Early Engagement. The ICB welcomes feedback on the proposed specification for this service, but is not obliged to rely on provider information given in response to this request for expressions of interest.
Notice Details
Publication & Lifecycle
- Open Contracting ID
- ocds-h6vhtk-04eff2
- Publication Source
- Find A Tender Service
- Latest Notice
- https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/055132-2025
- Current Stage
- Award
- All Stages
- Planning, Tender, Award
Procurement Classification
- Notice Type
- UK6 - Contract Award Notice
- Procurement Type
- Standard
- Procurement Category
- Services
- Procurement Method
- Open
- Procurement Method Details
- Below threshold - open competition
- Tender Suitability
- SME, VCSE
- Awardee Scale
- SME
Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)
- CPV Divisions
85 - Health and social work services
-
- CPV Codes
85147000 - Company health services
Notice Value(s)
- Tender Value
- £545,149 £500K-£1M
- Lots Value
- £545,149 £500K-£1M
- Awards Value
- £138,159 £100K-£500K
- Contracts Value
- Not specified
Notice Dates
- Publication Date
- 9 Sep 20252 months ago
- Submission Deadline
- 20 Aug 2025Expired
- Future Notice Date
- 21 Apr 2025Expired
- Award Date
- 8 Sep 20253 months ago
- Contract Period
- 30 Sep 2025 - 31 Jan 2027 1-2 years
- Recurrence
- Not specified
Notice Status
- Tender Status
- Complete
- Lots Status
- Complete
- Awards Status
- Active
- Contracts Status
- Not Specified
Buyer & Supplier
Contracting Authority (Buyer)
- Main Buyer
- NHS STAFFORDSHIRE AND STOKE-ON-TRENT INTEGRATED CARE BOARD
- Additional Buyers
- Contact Name
- Emma Hardman
- Contact Email
- contractingrequests@staffsstoke.icb.nhs.uk, m.patel16@nhs.net, oliver.lee5@nhs.net
- Contact Phone
- Not specified
Buyer Location
- Locality
- STAFFORD
- Postcode
- ST16 2LP
- Post Town
- Stoke-on-Trent
- Country
- England
-
- Major Region (ITL 1)
- TLG West Midlands (England)
- Basic Region (ITL 2)
- TLG2 Shropshire and Staffordshire
- Small Region (ITL 3)
- TLG21 Telford and Wrekin
- Delivery Location
- TLG2 Shropshire and Staffordshire, TLG21 Telford and Wrekin, TLG22 Shropshire, TLG23 Stoke-on-Trent, TLG24 Staffordshire CC
-
- Local Authority
- Telford and Wrekin
- Electoral Ward
- Haygate & Park
- Westminster Constituency
- The Wrekin
Further Information
Notice Documents
-
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/055132-2025
9th September 2025 - Contract award notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/046598-2025
6th August 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/046463-2025
6th August 2025 - Tender notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/013070-2025
4th April 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender -
https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/010496-2025
20th March 2025 - Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
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