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title: "Peer Support For Systems"
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buyer: "NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT"
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# Peer Support For Systems

Buyer: NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT  
Current stage: Tender  
OCID: ocds-b5fd17-45438926-9fe8-49f6-a446-85afa9188f96

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## Summary

NHS England & NHS Improvement is seeking to procure services under the title "Peer Support For Systems," aimed at enhancing leadership and collaboration within integrated care systems (ICSs). The tender falls within the health services industry category and has a total value of £520,000. The procurement is currently in the active tender stage, with the submission deadline on 15th November 2021. Once awarded, the contract period will run from 20th December 2021 to 31st March 2022 and will involve various delivery locations including the UK and British Overseas Territories.

This tender presents significant opportunities for businesses specialising in health service consultancy, leadership development, and support for systemic integration. Suitable contenders might include larger consultancy firms with experience in health services, as well as innovative smaller organisations capable of providing bespoke workshops and evaluation support. Engaging in this contract can help broaden their exposure and establish vital networks within the public health sector, which could lead to further contracts and collaborative initiatives.

## Notice

Provide integrated care systems (ICSs) with support in the area of system-based leadership, relationship building and problem solving, with the aim of bringing the local systems together to further integrate health and care services for the benefit of local communities. The supplier will develop packages of bespoke support for local systems. The peer support offer will seek to develop systems by helping them to identify and agree priorities and work together and build relationships that will support the successful integration and associated improvement to access, quality, safety and the financial sustainability of local systems. Description of Deliverables Delivery of peer support offers to enable health and care leaders to agree and implement their ambitions in the context of the new system wide statutory partnerships, new relationships between commissioners and providers and an intensified focus on provider collaboration. Priority setting will take place with NHSEI nationally and regionally, scoping meetings with programme management staff prior to support delivery through: * Peer Challenge (including a mix of one-to-one interviews and focus groups) * Bespoke workshops for system or place-based leaders which will often be a series of sessions to help partners come to a shared understanding of the issues facing their ICS or place and to explore potential ways forward * Peer-to-peer buddying and critical friend * Pause and Reflect' workshops for systems to come together and collectively reflect on the pandemic, what they should stop, change and continue and how this might shape future priority setting. * Evaluation - embedded evaluation of the impact of bespoke support and intervention * Monthly reporting and fortnightly status update meetings and associated marketing and communications (brochure, slides, advertising and social media and e-marketing content), as well as support to share learning with wider systems through blogs, videos and case studies

## Key Details

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication source | Contracts Finder |
| Latest notice | https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/70086036-f2ad-444f-a56e-f9b68293c440 |
| Notice type | Tender Notice |
| Procurement type | Standard |
| Procurement category | Services |
| Procurement method | Open |
| Procurement method details | Open procedure (above threshold) |
| Tender suitability | Not specified |
| Awardee scale | Not specified |
| All stages | Tender |

## Dates

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Publication date | 14 Oct 2021 |
| Submission deadline | 15 Nov 2021 |
| Future notice date | Not specified |
| Award date | Not specified |
| Contract period | 20 Dec 2021 - 31 Mar 2022 |
| Recurrence | Not specified |

## Values

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender value | £520,000 |
| Lots value | Not specified |
| Awards value | Not specified |
| Contracts value | Not specified |

## Status

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Tender status | Active |
| Lots status | Not specified |
| Awards status | Not specified |
| Contracts status | Not specified |

## Buyer

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Main buyer | NHS ENGLAND & NHS IMPROVEMENT |
| Locality | LEEDS |
| Post town | Leeds |
| Postcode | LS2 7UE |
| Country | England |
| ITL 1 | TLE Yorkshire and The Humber |
| ITL 2 | TLE4 West Yorkshire |
| ITL 3 | TLE42 Leeds |
| Local authority | Leeds |
| Electoral ward | Little London & Woodhouse |
| Westminster constituency | Leeds Central and Headingley |
| Delivery location | Not specified |

## CPV Codes

### Divisions

- 85 - Health and social work services

### Codes

- 85100000 - Health services

## Release History

- 14 Oct 2021 at 13:19 - Tender - Tender Notice - https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/70086036-f2ad-444f-a56e-f9b68293c440

## Documents

- https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/70086036-f2ad-444f-a56e-f9b68293c440
  14th October 2021 - Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder

## Provenance

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