Invitation to Tender for Child Health Information Service for Bolton, Stockport and Tameside & The Management of the Red Books across Greater Manchester

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) on behalf of NHS England – Lancashire and Greater Manchester wishes to procure a Child Health Information Service to cover Bolton, Stockport and Tameside localities and to manage red books across Greater Manchester

The aim of Child Health Information Service (CHIS) is to ensure that each child in England has an active care record, supporting delivery of, as a minimum, screening, immunisation and the healthy child programme services.

The CHIS service consists of three components:

• an IT system, the Child Health Information System; • a child health records department (CHRD); • a personal child health record (PCHR), the Red Book.

Bolton, Stockport and Tameside and Glossop Child Health information Service covers approximately a total of 192,000 children aged 0-19 years of age (2011 ONS population data) and is co-terminus with the respective NHS Clinical Commissioning Groups and Local Authority footprint.

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, including your tender submission, will be conducted via the portal https://In-tendhost.co.uk/necs hosted by (In-Tend), the managed service provider for the NECS electronic tendering system.

Express Interest:

To express an interest in tendering for this service, and (if you have not already done so) please register on the electronic tendering portal, which can be found at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/necs.

Once registered, you will be able to view details of the tender opportunity by selecting the “Tenders” tab, and then selecting “Current”, scroll down through the tender lists until you come to “Child Health Information Service for Bolton, Stockport and Tameside & The Management of the Red Books across Greater Manchester”. To view further information on this specific tender opportunity, click the button marked “View Details”. From this area, you will be able to express your interest in this tender opportunity by selecting the button marked “Express Interest”.

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, a help guide can be found on the portal by clicking on the tab marked “Guidance for Suppliers”. Alternatively, (should potential providers have any queries) a dedicated helpdesk is available and can be contacted on 0844 2728810 Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm or email: [email protected].

The closing date for submission of tenders is 10:00 am on the 23rd November 2015.

Additional information: Potential Bidders are to note: It is anticipated that the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 as amended by the Collective Redundancies and Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (TUPE) may apply for this contract. Potential Bidders are advised to form their own view on whether TUPE applies, obtaining their own legal advice and carrying out due diligence.

“Under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012 the Contracting Authority must consider:

(a) how what is proposed to be procured might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the area where it exercises its functions, and

(b) how, in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing that improvement.

Accordingly, the subject matter of the contract has been scoped to take into account the priorities of the Contracting Authority relating to economic, social and environmental well-being”.