--- title: "NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) - Market Engagement Event- Integrated Healthcare Service to Kent and Medway Prisons" ocid: "ocds-b5fd17-40342830-0641-438b-8be1-5bf95b9bbf2a" canonical_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-40342830-0641-438b-8be1-5bf95b9bbf2a" markdown_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-40342830-0641-438b-8be1-5bf95b9bbf2a.md" json_url: "https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-40342830-0641-438b-8be1-5bf95b9bbf2a.json" source: "Contracts Finder" current_stage: "Planning" buyer: "NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT" published: "2019-11-11" --- # NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) - Market Engagement Event- Integrated Healthcare Service to Kent and Medway Prisons Buyer: NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT Current stage: Planning OCID: ocds-b5fd17-40342830-0641-438b-8be1-5bf95b9bbf2a [View canonical contract page](https://d3tenders.com/contract/?ocid=ocds-b5fd17-40342830-0641-438b-8be1-5bf95b9bbf2a) [Download OCDS JSON](https://d3tenders.com/contract/ocds-b5fd17-40342830-0641-438b-8be1-5bf95b9bbf2a.json) ## Summary NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) is initiating a market engagement event titled "Integrated Healthcare Service to Kent and Medway Prisons." The procurement process is currently in the planning stage, with the engagement end date set for 13 November 2019. The procurement aims to gather expressions of interest from qualified prime providers to deliver integrated healthcare services across various prisons in the South East of the UK, including HMP Swaleside, HMP Elmley, and HMP Maidstone. The indicative start date for the contract is 1 April 2021, with an estimated annual contract value of £23,385,355. This tender presents significant opportunities for various healthcare providers, particularly those specialised in integrated pharmacy, primary healthcare, mental health, and substance misuse services. Businesses well-suited to compete include private and NHS organisations, as well as third sector and social enterprise organisations that can demonstrate experience and qualifications in providing healthcare services. The market engagement event, scheduled for 19 November 2019, will facilitate networking and collaboration among potential prime providers and subcontractors, encouraging the development of a comprehensive and integrated healthcare delivery model for the prison populations in Kent and Medway. ## Notice NHS England and NHS Improvement South (South East) (the Commissioner) invites expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced Prime Providers, including third sector and social enterprise organisations, private and NHS organisations, to provide integrated pharmacy and primary healthcare services, and mental health and substance misuse services to Kent and Medway prisons, to be confirmed but likely to include; HMP Swaleside; HMP Elmley; HMP Standford Hill; HMP Maidstone; HMP East Sutton Park; HMP Rochester & HMP Cookham Wood. Provision includes an In Patient Unit at HMP Elmley and HMP Swaleside. NHS England will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers. The indicative date for the contract to commence is 1st April 2021. The indicative annual contract value is PS23,385,355. This service will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system both within the prisons and onwards into the community. The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions/services in prison and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care. Close joint working with other healthcare services, as well as other departments within the prison such as Education, Offender Management, and Physical Education, is imperative to the success of the delivery of this service. The clinical healthcare services in the contract are likely to include (but are not limited to): *Primary Care Nursing including Long Term Conditions nursing *Access to GP provision *Healthcare Administration *Multi Disciplinary approach to Pain Clinics *In Patients Unit Services including End of Life / Palliative Care *Mental health and emotional wellbeing services including: Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services *Sexual Health Services *Clinical Substance Misuse Services *Psycho-social interventions service for substance misusers *Integrated Substance Misuse Services *Public health programmes including health promotion (including smoking cessation) *Responsibility for ensuring Pharmacy Services-Including mechanism for OOH provision and Medicine Management Service Delivery *Dentistry *Access to Optometry, Physiotherapy, Podiatry, and musculoskeletal provision *Appropriate administrative support (including data intelligence and reporting resource) In addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring: *effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with ccommunity based specialist health provision, including hospital based services *The provider may potentially be responsible for social care provision following assessment, subject to co-commissioning arrangements with local authorities Additional information: The aim of the market engagement event is to work with potential prime providers to understand opportunities and barriers to providing these services. To encourage networking, and with approval, all contact details will be shared via the procurement portal with potential sub-contractors. It is not yet determined whether pharmacy services are in scope of this procurement and providers who are interested in providing this service are welcome to attend the market engagement event, please register and complete a market questionnaire as detailed below. Details of the Market Engagement Event are; Date: 19/11/19 Time: 10:00-16:00 Venue: Accessible venue in Kent To express an interest in attending this event, please register on the e-procurement system, In-Tend and submit a completed Market Engagement Questionnaire by COP 13/11/19. Please also provide the following details; Name of attendee(s); Job Title of attendee(s); Organisation details, inc address and contact details. Please note there is a limit of 2 attendees per organisation. NHS England will also hold 1:1 provider meetings on 27/11/19, to which prime providers will be formally invited. This event will be an opportunity for prime providers to discuss their completed market engagement questionnaire and the procurement in general, please hold this date in your diaries. Interested providers will be able to view the market engagement event opportunity via the 'current tenders' list on In-Tend, available on the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home. In order to return the questionnaire, you will need to be registered on In-Tend and 'express an interest' in the opportunity then upload the completed questionnaire to the placeholder provided. Please provide the requested attendee details by using the correspondence function of the system. The procurement exercise will be undertaken with potential prime providers, but specialist providers of the services being commissioned may also respond to this notice if they would like commissioners to pass their contact details on to potential prime providers. Please ensure that you indicate in your response whether your organisation is expressing an interest as a potential prime provider or in order for your details to be passed on as a potential sub-contractor. This notice is an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit NHS England or respondents to a future procurement or to any award of contracts, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. NHS England will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise. The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015("the Regulations") which are not subject t ## Key Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication source | Contracts Finder | | Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b039ee20-6303-45ef-a250-01941776d1b7 | | Notice type | Market Engagement Notice | | Procurement type | Standard | | Procurement category | Not specified | | Procurement method | Not Specified | | Procurement method details | Not specified | | Tender suitability | SME, VCSE | | Awardee scale | Not specified | | All stages | Planning | ## Dates | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Publication date | 11 Nov 2019 | | Submission deadline | Not specified | | Future notice date | 13 Nov 2019 | | Award date | Not specified | | Contract period | Not specified | | Recurrence | Not specified | ## Values | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender value | Not specified | | Lots value | Not specified | | Awards value | Not specified | | Contracts value | Not specified | ## Status | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Tender status | Planning | | Lots status | Not specified | | Awards status | Not specified | | Contracts status | Not specified | ## Buyer | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Main buyer | NHS SOUTH, CENTRAL AND WEST COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT | | Locality | BRISTOL | | Post town | Bristol | | Postcode | BS1 3NX | | Country | England | | ITL 1 | TLK South West (England) | | ITL 2 | TLK5 West of England | | ITL 3 | TLK51 Bristol, City of | | Local authority | Bristol, City of | | Electoral ward | Central | | Westminster constituency | Bristol Central | | Delivery location | TLJ South East (England) | ## CPV Codes ### Divisions - 85 - Health and social work services ### Codes - 85000000 - Health and social work services ## Release History - 11 Nov 2019 at 13:46 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b039ee20-6303-45ef-a250-01941776d1b7 - 14 Oct 2019 at 08:29 - Planning - Market Engagement Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b039ee20-6303-45ef-a250-01941776d1b7 ## Documents - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/b039ee20-6303-45ef-a250-01941776d1b7 11th November 2019 - Early engagement notice on Contracts Finder ## Notice URLs - https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home - https://in-tendorganiser.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/ITLogin.aspx ## Provenance This Markdown file is an alternate public rendering of the D3 Tenders contract record. 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