Women’s Prisons Healthcare Services for Yorkshire and Humber

North of England Commissioning Support are working for and on behalf of NHS England - North (Yorkshire and Humber) who wish to commission Healthcare Provision for Women in Prisons across Yorkshire & Humber.

The scope of the service provision model comprises the populations of the two female establishments which are currently HMP & YOI New Hall and HMP Askham Grange. The two prisons are structured as a ‘cluster’ with the Contract to be tendered as one Lot. There is potentially a possibility that there will be changes to the female prisons estate in the future, and we would work with the healthcare providers to manage any changes.

The new service model tendered is designed to deliver: • A gender-specific focus on delivering healthcare for women in custody; • A renewed and strengthened focus on improving mental health outcomes and tackling substance misuse issues for women in prison that reflects latest national policy and NICE clinical guidance; • An integrated and coherent healthcare delivery model across the cluster comprising the two establishments that is aligned to the local healthcare system and local offender management pathway; • The three key strategic commissioning goals: to reduce health inequalities; to ensure services are integrated; and to reduce health risk factors; • Improved provider capability and capacity, including effective contracting models with robust subcontracting and supply chain arrangements to deliver improved service quality and performance; • Greater value for money from whole system capability and capacity, including efficient operations underpinned by strengthened contract management arrangements; • Cost improvement from testing the market through a competitive tender to secure new provision through contract award and subsequent innovative contracting model (prime contractor model).

Under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 the contracting authority must consider:

• How what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the relevant area. • How, in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing the improvement.

Additional information: Please note this is a voluntary notice as healthcare services are currently Part B regime in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended), and therefore compliance to the full regulations is not mandatory. The new Public Contracts Regulations 2015 are now in force however there is a delay in application of the Light Touch Regime (LTR) to the commissioning of health services for the purposes of the NHS. Regulation 120 provides that the LTR will only apply to the procurement (“commissioning”) of health services for the purposes of the NHS from 18 April 2016. The basic principles of the Open Procedure will be followed to commission Healthcare Provision for Adults and Young People in Prisons and Other Prescribed Places of Detention (PPD) in West Yorkshire and York thus ensuring a fair, open and transparent process in accordance with NHS (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No. 2) Regulations 2013. A Bidder event for further clarification and explanation of the procurement process has been arranged for 10am-12noon, 22nd January 2016. The event will be held at the following venue:

HMP Askham Grange, Askham Richard, York, North Yorkshire YO23 3FT

The Invitation to Tender (ITT) and supporting documents are available for all services to download through In-Tend who are the managed service provider for the NECS e-tendering portal.

NECS is utilising an electronic tendering tool 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, including your submission, will be conducted via the portal – https://In-tendhost.co.uk/necs hosted by In-tend, the managed service provider for the NECS e-tendering system. It is free to register on the portal, and it can be accessed at any time of day. Should potential providers have any queries, or if potential providers are having problems registering on the portal, they should contact the In-Tend helpdesk by calling 0844 2728810 (Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm) or email [email protected].

The closing date for submission of Tenders is 12 noon 22nd February 2016