NHS England and NHS Improvement South East - Market Engagement - Integrated Health and Emotional Wellbeing Services to Oasis Restore Secure School

This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice and relates to a pre-procurement market engagement event, 1:1 meetings and market questionnaire.

NHS England and NHS Improvement (NHSE/I) South East invites expressions of interest (EOI) from suitably qualified and experienced prime providers, including third sector and social enterprise organisations, private and NHS organisations, to provide an integrated health and emotional wellbeing service to the students at the new Oasis Restore Secure School in Medway, Kent. This is an opportunity for healthcare providers to develop and deliver a truly innovative approach to improving the health and well-being of vulnerable children and young people with complex needs.

The event is intended to give potential bidders and sub-contractors an initial briefing on the vision for the Secure School by NHSE/I, alongside our partners Oasis Restore and Youth Custody Service. There will also be opportunities for prime providers to attend 1:1 meetings with service commissioners, likely to be during w/c 9th or 16th May.

The Oasis Restore Secure School will be managed and operated by Oasis Academies Trust and will offer a reparative opportunity to children and young people who have become criminally involved. The students will either be on remand or have received a sentence via Court. The School will have an initial capacity of 45 students aged 12 to 17 years, accepting boys and girls and students will receive an intensive package of psycho-social and educational assessment and support. The healthcare provider will be required to deliver a range of clinical health interventions alongside developing innovative approaches that deliver a fully integrated education, health and wellbeing programme designed and delivered alongside Oasis. The School will offer a whole establishment approach to developing a trauma informed setting.

NHSE/I will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.

The contract is anticipated to commence during the second half of the 2023/4 financial year, but precise timings are to be confirmed. The annual contract value is anticipated to be in the region of £2 million, with the contract term to be confirmed.

The service model will be required to encompass both clinical and non-clinical services, including (but not limited to):

• Physical health provision, including GP provision, physical health nurses and access to specialist therapies, for example, optometry, physiotherapy, audiology. • Mental health services, inc access to talking therapies, counselling and psychology led provision. • Neuro diversity services, inc. Speech and Language Therapy • Substance misuse services • Health promotion and public health programmes, inc sexual health services, vaccination, immunisation and BBV provision. • Health education • Pharmacy services. • Dental services • Appropriate administrative and data management support.

Additional information: This process is being managed by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.

Those interested in delivering the service should complete the online market engagement questionnaire, including any organisations who consider themselves to be potential sub-contractors to the service and would like their details to be shared with potential prime providers.

Following market questionnaire submissions, NHSE/I South East will invite potential prime providers and sub-contractors to attend a virtual market engagement event, expected to take place on 5th May 2022.

Further details of the event, including joining instructions, will be provided once the PIN has closed, to those providers who express an interest and complete the market engagement questionnaire.

Following this event, there will be the opportunity for potential prime providers to meet 1:1 with Commissioners, to explore any opportunities and barriers to providing these services and to discuss their questionnaire responses. These are expected to take place week commencing 9th or 16th May 2022.

To encourage networking, and with consent, all contact details of prime providers and sub-contractors who complete the market questionnaire will be shared via the procurement portal.

Providers who wish to express their interest and complete the questionnaire will need to register on the e-procurement system, In-Tend, available on the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/ProjectManage/1583

The questionnaire can be accessed via the 'current tenders' list on In-Tend, listed as 'WA9716/ME: Integrated Healthcare Services to Oasis Restore Secure School for NHS England and NHS Improvement South East', select 'express an interest' and then 'opt in'. Please complete the market questionnaire within In-Tend by midday on Monday 25th April 2022.

NHSE/I South East will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise.

This notice is an information gathering exercise rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit NHSE/I South East or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest.

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).