NHS England South (South East) - Market Engagement - Healthcare services at HMP Winchester

NHS England South (South Central) requests Expressions of Interest from providers with the capacity and capability to provide an outcome focused, integrated primary healthcare service, equivalent to that available to the local community for HMP Winchester. The service will include an inpatient facility capable of providing a comprehensive range of services in-house to include physical health, mental health and substance misuse services. NHS England and the local authority are also exploring options for integrating social care provision.

The contract is due to begin on 1st October 2019.

NHS England will commission a prime provider model for prison healthcare services in order to support integrated, patient centred care across the full range of service specialties required to manage the complex healthcare needs of those in the prison settings.

NHS England will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers. The prime provider will also be responsible for ensuring that all healthcare services operating within the prison work in an integrated way, delivering seamless care pathways.

Services will be supportive of each other and the patient, minimising repetition and handoffs. Services under the prime provider model will be accountable not only for their own area of specialism but also to work together to contribute to the functioning of the healthcare services as a whole. The prime provider will hold overall clinical, governance and financial accountability for healthcare services in the prisons, coordinating provision and distributing funding etc.

HMP YOI Winchester was built in 1846 and is typical of the Victorian prison, radial design. It is currently a Category B Local prison that serves the local courts, with a small 129 bed Category C Resettlement Unit, named West Hill. Winchester has an operational capacity of approx. 700 and is able to take men from the age of 18 upwards. There is full time healthcare provision, with a dedicated bed inpatient facility and an award winning Family Intervention Service. Further information about healthcare and the prison can be found in the overview document provided on the In-Tend portal. The services included in the contract are:

• GP Provision • Primary Care Nursing and Admin service • Pharmacy Services-Including mechanism for OOH provision • Inpatient Unit facility • Substance Misuse Services (including Substance Misuse wing) • Optometry • Physiotherapy • Podiatry • Tissue Viability • Continence services • Dietetics • Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services • Sexual Health Services • Health Promotion and Prevention • Dental services

Market engagement will help to inform the commissioning strategy in terms of payment arrangements and contract term.

Additional information: This process is being carried out by NHS South, Central & West Commissioning Support Unit (SCWCSU) on behalf of the Commissioner

To express an interest in this procurement, please register on the In-Tend portal and submit a completed Market Engagement Questionnaire by 12pm on 2nd November 2018.

Interested providers will be able to view the opportunity via the 'current tenders' list on In-Tend: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home

In order to return the questionnaire, you will need to 'express an interest' and register on the system and then upload the completed questionnaire to the placeholder provided.

The procurement exercise will be undertaken with potential prime providers, but specialist providers of the services being commissioned may also respond to this notice if they would like commissioners to pass their contact details on to potential prime providers. Please ensure that you indicate in your response whether your organisation is expressing an interest as a potential prime provider or in order for your details to be passed on as a potential sub-contractor.

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 NHS England or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. NHS England will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise.

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 instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).

Any tendering process will be conducted in accordance with the requirements and flexibilities provided by Articles 74 to 76 of the Directive, and Regulations 74 to 76 of the Regulations. The Authority will run a transparent process, treating all Bidders equally. For the avoidance of doubt, the Authority will not be bound by the Regulations or the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these Services.

Neither the inclusion of a Bidder selection stage, nor the use of any language or terms found in the Directive or Regulations, nor the description of the procedure voluntarily adopted by the Authority ("Open", "Restricted", "Competitive Procedure with Negotiation", "Competitive Dialogue" or any other description), nor any other indication, shall be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold itself bound by the Directive or Regulations, save by the provisions applicable to services coming within the scope of Annex XIV of the Directive / Sch