North East Prisons Healthcare Market Engagement Event

NHS England North (Cumbria and North East) Health and Justice Commissioners wish to invite interested parties to a market engagement event to be held at Beamish Hall, County Durham on the 21 September, 10am -12.30pm. The existing North East prison health contracts were let for three years with an option to extend by a further two. The contracts are currently in the second year with the third year of the contract completing by March 31 2018. Commissioners are required to advise NHS England Directors of the options for either extending the existing contracts or re-tendering services. This will include providing and receiving feedback in relation to potential contractual models should services be re-tendered. This event will enable Commissioners to understand current market forces, interest and to inform future commissioning intentions. Aims of the Market Engagement Event 1. Understand the current market interest in bidding for prison health care services in the North East, and; 2. Obtain views on prospective contracting models There will be brief presentations from Commissioners, NOMS Commissioners and a NE prison Governor There will be an opportunity to ask questions on the presentations and providers will be asked to complete a proforma on the day which will collate views on whether they would be interested in bidding for the business, which models they would prefer and why.

Additional information: NECS is utilising an electronic tendering system to manage this procurement and communicate with potential providers. Accordingly, there will be no hard copy documents issued to potential providers and all communications with NECS, will be conducted via the portal https://www.proactisplaza.com/SupplierPortal/?CID=NECS hosted by (Proactis) the managed service provider for the NECS electronic tendering system.

To express an interest in tendering for this service, please register on the electronic tendering portal, which can be found at https://www.proactisplaza.com/SupplierPortal/?CID=NECS.

Once registered, you will be able to view details of the tender opportunity by selecting the “Opportunities” box, and then searching for “North East Prisons Healthcare " (Reference NHSE130). To view further information on this specific opportunity, click the button marked “show me”. From this area you will be able to register to attend the market engagement event.

Please note that it is free to register on the portal, which can be accessed at any time of day as long as you have a working internet connection.

If you require further assistance using the portal, help guides can be found on each stage of the process by clicking the “?” icon at the top right hand of the page. Alternatively, (should potential providers have any queries) a dedicated helpdesk is available and can be contacted via email: http://proactis.kayako.com/suppliernetwork/Core/Default/Index. The helpdesk will be open Monday to Friday 9am to 5:30pm. Please be aware that all communications will be conducted via the NECS Proactis portal only.

Anyone interested in registering for this event should do so by no later than 5pm on 19 September 2016.

A maximum of three delegates per organisation will be allowed.