Health Education England North East - Lead Employer Contract - NHS/SoEPS/19.536

This is a contract result notice, not an open opportunity. Details from the official award data.

NHS South of England Procurement Services (SoEPS), acting on behalf of Health Education England (HEE - the Commissioner) are commencing a tender for the provision of a Lead Employer Services in the North East.

HEE NE would like to invite appropriate organisations to respond to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) for the provision of the Lead Employer arrangement as set out in the service specification.

This document sets out the requirements and the criteria to be used in the evaluation and provides information regarding how the Tender process will be managed.

The document can be accessed via the In-Tend e-portal, detail of how to access attached.

The purpose of this ITT is to solicit professional, properly defined and costed propositions and solutions.

The information provided in the specification will help Bidders to evaluate their suitability and assess if the Bidder meets HEE NE's specific requirements.

The initial contract period of four years will be a maximum value of £4,000,000 inclusive of VAT.

The Authority retains the option to extend the contracts by a further 1 year period.

Bidders are invited to access the procurement documentation at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/soepscommissioning Please access the ITT procurement documents for further information.

The deadline for submission of completed ITT submissions is Monday 07 October 2019 at 12:00pm (midday).

Late submissions will not be accepted.

The e-portal system will shutdown at 12:00pm and any un-submitted bids not registered to the system at this time will not be accepted.

Therefore, please submit in good time prior to the deadline date and time.

Project title: Health Education England North East - Lead Employer Contract - NHS/SoEPS/19.536, please access the ITT for all documents.

Should Bidders have any queries, or are having problems using the portal, they should contact the In-tend dedicated Supplier Helpdesk by calling 0845 557 8079 Monday to Friday (9am to 5pm) or email support@in-tend.co.uk All communications should be made via the messaging function on the In-tend E-Tendering portal.

During the tender exercise the Contracting Authority requests that all communications are channelled through the e-portal system via the appointed procurement specialist on behalf of NHS South of England Procurement Services and not with the Contracting Authority itself.

No Bidder, Bidder Member, or any of such Bidder's advisors, consultants or subcontractors may have ex parte communications with the Contracting Authority or any of their employees, advisors, contractors or consultants regarding the ITT, the Procurement, other than as expressly permitted in this ITT.

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