Section one: Contracting authority
one.1) Name and addresses
NHS England
Quarry House, Quarry Hill
Leeds
LS2 7UE
Contact
Garry Mitchell
Commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net
Country
United Kingdom
Region code
UK - United Kingdom
Justification for not providing organisation identifier
Not on any register
Internet address(es)
Main address
one.2) Information about joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
one.3) Communication
Additional information can be obtained from the above-mentioned address
one.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
one.5) Main activity
Health
Section two: Object
two.1) Scope of the procurement
two.1.1) Title
NHS England Market Engagement for Primary Care Labs for NHS England - South West Region
two.1.2) Main CPV code
- 85000000 - Health and social work services
two.1.3) Type of contract
Services
two.1.4) Short description
Primary Care Laboratory - South West
On behalf of NHS England's South West Digital Transformation Team, the National Commercial and Procurement Hub (NHS England) is hosting a market engagement event to test supplier interest and capabilities in the delivery of a Primary Care Laboratory.
The Primary Care Laboratory will be a highly flexible physical space(s), capable of simulating clinical and administrative areas, mirroring the general practice environment. The space will be easily reconfigurable to reflect various options for workflow and, potentially, other primary care environments (e.g. dental practices). Service infrastructure will be required to enable staff to work in the space to develop and test digital technologies and processes, to address the challenges facing the delivery of primary care. There will be opportunities for partner organisations to use the Primary Care Laboratory as a resource for health care delivery research, associated with NHS operational pressures.
We are seeking organisations capable of providing these services as a whole or organisations that could provide part of the services to gather information of what is possible in the market currently and to share our vision of how laboratory will work.
Information assimilated from the event will help inform the procurement strategy, should we proceed to tender.
Interested suppliers should note that this exercise is a market engagement exercise only. Any future competitions or opportunities will not be directly linked to this notice. Interested suppliers should be clear that interest in this engagement is a fundamental step towards the creation of the strategy to deliver an enhanced service.
This window is presented for interested suppliers to register their interest via email to the National commercial and Procurement Hub: commercial.procurementhub@nhs.net
The deadline for registering interesting 14th November 2022 at 12pm midday.
The event will be held via MS teams on 15th November 2022 date with the time to be confirmed via the invite.
two.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots: No
two.2) Description
two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
- 33190000 - Miscellaneous medical devices and products
- 38970000 - Research, testing and scientific technical simulator
- 48200000 - Networking, Internet and intranet software package
- 73100000 - Research and experimental development services
- 80510000 - Specialist training services
- 80561000 - Health training services
two.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS codes
- UKK - South West (England)
two.2.4) Description of the procurement
Description of the vision, a draft specification and additional documents to be released to all of the suppliers who register an interest to the event.
two.3) Estimated date of publication of contract notice
31 March 2023
Section six. Complementary information
six.3) Additional information
This notice is an information gathering exercise only rather than a call for competition in its own right, and therefore publication or response does not commit the Authority or respondents to a future procurement, nor provide any process exemptions or preferential treatment to any parties expressing an interest. The Authority will not be liable for costs incurred by any interested party in participating in this exercise.
Any future 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 tender process, treating all Bidders equally. For the avoidance of doubt, the Authority will not be bound by the Regulations 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 / Schedule 3 of the Regulations.