NHS England South West (South) is anticipating issuing a procurement for the Provision of Offender Personality Disorder services to HMP Channings Wood in March 2019, for a service commencement date of July 2019.

The contract will be for an initial term of 27 months, with an option to extend for a further 24 months at the sole discretion of the Commissioner.

Payment will be made on a staged basis and the maximum total value of the contract, including any extension, is £2,030,000.

As part of the procurement process, the Commissioner will be holding a bidder event on the morning of 21st March in Newton Abbot, Devon.

The purpose of this event is to enable bidders to hear from Commissioners regarding the objectives of the procurement, the current services context and the procurement process being followed.

This service is commissioned as a part of the Offender Personality Disorder (OPD) pathway.

The four high level outcomes for the OPD pathway are: • For men, a reduction in repeat serious sexual and/or violent offending; or for women, a reduction in repeat offending of specified offences; • Improved psychological health, wellbeing, pro-social behaviour and relational outcomes; • Improved competence, confidence and attitudes of staff working with complex people who are likely to have severe 'personality disorder'; • Increased efficiency, cost effectiveness and quality of OPD pathway services.

A draft service specification and copy of the Offender Personality Disorder Pathway Strategy are provided as attachments for information only.

Interested providers will be able to view the bidder event opportunity via the 'current tenders' list on the e-procurement system In-Tend, accessible via the following link: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/ProjectManage/931 In order to access the bidder event and express an interest you will need to register on the In-Tend portal and send your organisation details along with the names of no more than 3 attendees to Phil Fear, via the e-procurement messaging system, by no later than 12 noon on Monday 18th March 2019.

On expression of interest, you will be sent details regarding the venue and timings for the day via the e-procurement messaging system.

Please note that all presentation slides from the day as well as any clarification questions and responses will be made available to all of those that have expressed interest in the event.

Please note that this Notice has been issued purely to seek expressions of interest for this market briefing event, and does not currently form part of any formal procurement process.

Interested parties should note that a response to this Notice does not constitute an invitation to any subsequent formal procurement, which the Commissioners will consider in due course.

This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioners.