Framework Agreement for the provision of International Healthcare Professionals Recruitment & Associated Services

Concepts

• recruitment services
• international healthcare professionals recruitment & associated services
• leatherhead
• nhs commercial solutions
• international healthcare professional recruitment and associated services
• provision of international healthcare professionals recruitment
• recruitment
• placement services
• international recruitment journey
• range of services

Location

United Kingdom:

Description

NHS Commercial Solutions, in collaboration with its NHS Workforce Alliance partners, is seeking to procure, through a framework agreement, a panel of suitably experienced and qualified suppliers of International Healthcare Professional Recruitment and Associated services to provide expert guidance to NHS and other public sector organisations. The NHS Long Term Plan has set out its ambitions for the NHS over the next 10 years, identifying ethical and sustainable international recruitment as a workforce priority. It is intended that the resulting framework of this procurement will meet the Health and Social Care needs in line with the NHS Long Term and People Plan. This framework aims to provide a holistic approach to the International Recruitment journey, and the range of services and support requirements needed at the various stages of the process, to enable Participating Authorities to obtain recruitment and retention support of its overseas candidates.

Lot Division

CPV Codes

• 79600000 - Recruitment services
• 79610000 - Placement services of personnel
• 79624000 - Supply services of nursing personnel
• 79625000 - Supply services of medical personnel
• 79632000 - Personnel-training services
• 80000000 - Education and training services
• 79630000 - Personnel services except placement and supply services
• 80500000 - Training services

Indicators

• This is a one-off contract (no recurrence)
• Renewals are available.

Other Information

** PREVIEW NOTICE, please check Find a Tender for full details. ** The estimated total contracts value for all Lots awarded under the framework agreement is £150m including pass-through costs. Interested parties should note the agreement is not a guarantee of work and the Authority makes no commitment by any party to the use of the agreement nor the estimated value. Registering for access: This procurement will be managed electronically via the eTendering platform. This will be the route for sharing all information and communicating with bidders. If you have registered on the platform for another procurement with the Authority you can use the same account for this new procurement. If not, you will need to register your organisation on the portal. Use the following link for guidance on how to register: https://www.screencast.com/t/o6NHgMNjnf?_ncp=1660061014664.29406-1 If Bidders have problems with the Portal, please contact Bravo Solutions Helpdesk (Telephone 0800 069 8630, Email help@bravosolutions.co.uk) NHSCS are the authority for the Procurement, leading on behalf of the following organisations who together are known as NHS Workforce Alliance: • NHS Commercial Solutions (NHSCS) • East of England NHS Collaborative Procurement Hub (EOECPH) • NHS London Procurement Partnership (LPP) • NHS North of England Commercial Procurement Collaborative (NOECPC) • Crown Commercial Service (CCS) Participating Authorities eligible to use this Agreement are detailed in Stage 2 Annex 6 to the ITT. Subject to approval from the authority, the public sector bodies eligible to use the agreement include, in particular, the following in the United Kingdom and their respective statutory successors and organisations created as a result of re-organisations or organisational changes and any private sector entities having similar procurement needs: Workforce Alliance member bodies and any additional new members including wholly owned companies and subsidiaries. The framework is for the benefit of existing and emerging organisations during the life of the agreement, which includes but is not limited to providers, commissioners, delegated commissioners and support organisations. Acute; Foundation; Ambulance; Community; Care; Primary Care; Clinical Commissioning Groups, Mental Health Trusts, Integrated Care Systems (ICS's) and includes any Charitable Trusts to the foregoing, and other Contracting Bodies such as Strategic and Special Health Authorities, Fire and Rescue, Police, Police Commissioners, Charities, Government, Local Government, Local Authorities including Commissioning and Social, Prisons, Education/Higher Education, Social Care and the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) sector, including any successor organisations or changes to the provision of the services or the responsibility/ownership of the aforementioned organisations, such as responsibility resting with local authorities changing to local government/other government or other publicly funded bodies. NHS/Public Sector bodies located in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, including any of the Crown Dependencies and NHS Collaborative Procurement Organisations: The NHS in England (National Health Service for the United Kingdom) including but not limited to: Foundation Trusts, Acute (Hospital) Trusts, Ambulance Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Care Trusts, Community Trusts listed at:https://www.nhs.uk/servicedirectories/pages/nhstrustlisting.aspx Clinical Commissioning Groups: https://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/CCGListing.aspx Area Teams: https://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/AreaTeamListing.aspx Special Health Authorities: http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/SpecialHealthAuthorityListing.aspx NHS England: https://www.england.nhs.uk/ Department of Health: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health Arm's Length Bodies: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/how-to-contact-department-of-health-a... 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