NHS Leeds Framework Agreement for Health & Care Evaluation Services

NHS Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group (the "Contracting Authority") is seeking to establish a Multi-Supplier, Multi-Lot Framework of suitably qualified providers to deliver Health and Care Evaluation (HaCE) services to support the CCG's in-house HaCE service. The Health and Care Evaluation (HaCE) Service is a team operating across Leeds Clinical Commissioning Group and evaluates services implemented across the health and care system in the City. The service supports commissioners wishing to evaluate a service through either carrying out an evaluation of the service themselves, or finding a partner to evaluate some or all of the service for us. We are currently working on a range of evaluations including of interventions into the urgent care system in Leeds, Better Conversations- a culture change programme operating across the health and care system in the City and the introduction of a new service for patients with recently diagnosed diabetes. The Services are to be broken down into 3 specialist areas which will form separate Procurements Lots. Those specialist areas are as follows: -

Lot 1: Specific Evaluation Tasks: Part of a larger evaluation. Evaluators will be tasked with the delivery of specific elements of qualitative evaluations.

Lot 2: Evaluation Work Packages: The development and execution of evaluation strategies and delivery of evaluation products for aspects of projects e.g. either a qualitative or economic report.

Lot 3: Full Evaluations: Organising an evaluation from start to end. Including the development and execution of evaluation strategies and delivery of reports and evaluation products for the whole of a project.

Providers may submit an application for either or all Lots.

Additional information: ITT documents can be downloaded by Registering an Interest in this opportunity on the NHS Sourcing Portal below. An ITT Bidder Briefing will be held on 30 August 2019 from 12:00 to 14:00. This will enable potential bidders to discover more about the service to be procured, the procurement methodology and guidance on completing the tender documentation