Integrated Health and Wellbeing Services to Prisons in the South West region

Concepts

• health and social work
• south west
• bristol
• integrated health and wellbeing services
• wellbeing services
• dental service provision
• dorset prisons
• female closed prison
• devon prisons
• south west region

Location

Description

NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) are recommissioning health and wellbeing services to prisons across the South West region. NHSE/I are seeking to secure Prime Provider(s) who have the capability and capacity to deliver services in line with the specified requirements. There are 11 establishments across the South West, A single contract will be available for award to a Prime Provider for each lot. Contracts will be for a term of 7 years, with no extension options. Services are scheduled to commence on 01 October 2022. 1. Bristol, South Gloucestershire and Wiltshire prisons: HMP Bristol (Cat B) HMP Ashfield (Cat C) HMP Erlestoke (Cat C) HMP Leyhill (Cat D) 2. Female closed prison: HMP Eastwood Park 3. Dorset prisons HMP Guys Marsh (Cat C) HMP Portland (Cat C) HMP The Verne (Cat C) 4. Devon prisons HMP Exeter (Cat B) HMP Channings Wood (Cat C) HMP Dartmoor (Cat C) Social Care Provision of social care varies across the prisons. Where social care is in scope, a draft specification is available. There may be some minor changes to the specification(s) and the precise financial arrangements during the tender process. Unless advised otherwise, Bidders will be asked to design their delivery model using the published specification(s) and against the indicative values provided. Where social care is not currently part of the delivery model at this stage, for certain prisons, the Commissioner hopes to move to a fully integrated service, either during the tender process or during the life of the contract, subject to emerging demand at that stage. Any updates or changes in relation to social care, will either be communicated during the tender process, or will be managed through contract variation processes during the life of the contract. Dentistry Dental service provision is within scope and will be delivered via a dental provider operating under a Personal Dental Services (PDS) contract issued by NHSE/I. If the prime provider is unable to hold a PDS contract directly, a further tripartite agreement will be required between NHSE/I, the prime provider and the prime provider's dental services provider. Payments for dentistry will be made directly to the dental services provider on a fixed cost 'zero Units of Dental Activity (UDA) value' basis by NHSE/I but accountability for the management of the dental service will remain with the prime provider. Change There is a national prison expansion programme taking place to increase the number of available places in prison, and it is anticipated that there will be operational capacity changes across the South West prison estate. The contract envelope is based on current operational capacity figures. This, along with other changes resulting from reconfiguration, e.g. flow of people, resettlement and trainer populations, and aging populations, will need to be accounted for in the delivery of healthcare services. Changes to prison population(s) will be managed through contract variation processes.

CPV Codes

• 85000000 - Health and social work services

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.
• Contract is suitable for VCOs.

Other Information

Financial envelopes The maximum whole life combined contract value available for all lots is £273,134,000 This value includes indicative social care values where applicable. This value includes mobilisation funding, available in Year 1 if required. Bidders wishing to receive mobilisation funding will be required to describe their anticipated costs; however, this element will not be taken into account in the financial scoring. This value also includes a "Provider Improvement Fund" for Years 2 to 7, which will be retained by the Commissioner and aims to enable flexibility of funding for multi-establishment initiatives. The successful provider(s) will need to work with the Commissioner on an initiative-by-initiative basis to access this funding. Site visits Bidders' attention to drawn to the fact there are site visits available to all establishments over the coming weeks, commencing on Monday 12th July 2021. For details, please see section A.10 'Prison Site Visits', of the ITT document, along with Annex 5 and 6. The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77). The tendering process will be conducted in accordance with the requirements and flexibilities provided by Articles 74 to 76 of the Directive, and Regulations 74 to 76 of the Regulations. The Authority will run a transparent tender process, treating all Bidders equally. For the avoidance of doubt, the Authority will not be bound by the Regulations or the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these Services. Neither the inclusion of a Bidder selection stage, nor the use of any language or terms found in the Directive or Regulations, nor the description of the procedure voluntarily adopted by the Authority ("Open", "Restricted", "Competitive Procedure with Negotiation", "Competitive Dialogue" or any other description), nor any other indication, shall be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold itself bound by the Directive or Regulations, save by the provisions applicable to services coming within the scope of Annex XIV of the Directive / Schedule 3 of the Regulations. The Contracting Authority intends to voluntarily observe the award decision notices provisions and 10 day standstill period described in Regulation 86 of the Regulations. Unsuccessful Bidders will receive scores and reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the Bidder/application was unsuccessf