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Type of document: Contract Notice
Country: United Kingdom

1. Title: PRISON HEALTHCARE SERVICE – FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT
2. Awarding Authority: Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust. Web: .
3. Contract type: Service contract
Open
4. Description: The Awarding Authority provides prison healthcare services to a number of prisons in the Specified Location. We aim to provide the best possible care to patients through an integrated healthcare service comparable to that provided in the wider community. This is delivered by a multidisciplinary team of practitioners comprising:
GP/ primary care practitioners
Physical and mental health qualified nurses
Health care support workers
Pharmacy technicians
Substance misuse workers (clinical and psychosocial)
Specialist practitioners providing sexual health, optometry and therapy services
Healthcare administrators/ reception staff
We provide a wide range of mental and physical healthcare services together with substance misuse services. Our specialist prison pharmacy service provides medicines management services, working with the team to ensure the effective prescribing, dispensing and review of medicines.
Registered nurses provide reception screening to every prisoner on arrival undertaking a full health needs assessment, with onward referral to the appropriate practitioner where necessary. Prisoners can self-refer during their stay.
The Awarding Authority is bidding to provide healthcare services at Specified Location. If successful Awarding Authority will provide healthcare services in six Lots:-
1 Dental Services
2 Primary Care & GP Services
3 Optometry
4 Physiotherapy
5 Sexual Health GUM
6 Sexual Health Support
The Awarding Authority is therefore looking to put in place a framework of suppliers to provide the above services. NHS England will announce the Preferred Supplier for Specified Location in December 2016. Therefore, if successful, it is likely that LPT will run a call-off mini-competition in January 2017 from suppliers appointed to the framework. LPT will also be bidding to supply healthcare services at Specified Location and therefore, if successful for these tenders, will run further mini-competitions anticipated to be either later in 2017 or early 2018.
This procurement is being run as an Open competition under the OJEU Light Touch regime.
Suppliers who are interested in applying to be a framework supplier for one or more Lots must register on and submit a tender through the In-Tend electronic tendering system:-

5. CPV Code(s): 85100000, 85141220, 85142100, 85131000, 85140000, 85160000, 85141200, 85121100, 85121000, 85141000
6. NUTS code(s): UKF, UKF2, UKF21
7. Main site or location of works, main place of delivery or main place of performance: East Midlands
HMP Gartree
HMP Leicester and HMP & YOI Glen Parva
8. Reference attributed by awarding authority: LPT 00000030
9. Estimated value of requirement: Not provided.
10. Date documents can be requested until: 11.11.2016.
11. Address to which they must be sent: For further information on the above contract please visit Web:
12. Other information: OJEU Notice Date : 21 October 2016
Process : OJEU
TKR-20161024-EX-831818