Description
NHS England South East (NHSE) (the Commissioners) are seeking to recommission prime-provider led integrated healthcare services for HMP Ford, HMP Lewes, and HMP/YOI Winchester.
Interested providers should have the capacity and capability to provide outcome focused, integrated and patient centred primary healthcare services, equivalent to those available to the local community, delivering physical health, mental health, substance misuse and dental services.
NHSE will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.
The procurement is divided into the following Lots:
• Lot 1: HMP Ford and HMP Lewes
• Lot 2: HMP/YOI Winchester
The services will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pathway within the prisons and as such this model will ensure an integrated, recovery orientated service delivery system both within the prisons and onwards into the community. The service will focus on delivering person-centred care within seamless, integrated structured clinical and psychosocial interventions/services in prison and facilitating arrangements through the gate into the community to ensure effective continuity of care.
The services included in the contracts include (please refer to the service specification(s) for a full list of the services):
• General Practitioners Provision
• Primary Care Nursing (including long term conditions)
• Dental Services
• Pharmacy Services (including mechanism for Out of Hours provision)
• Inpatient Unit facility at HMP Lewes and HMP/YOI Winchester
• Substance Misuse Services (including Substance Misuse wings at HMP Lewes and HMP/YOI Winchester) Optometry
• Podiatry
• Audiology
• Primary and Secondary Mental Health and Learning Disability Services
• Health Promotion and Prevention
• Musculoskeletal therapies
• Smoking cessation
• Blood Born Viruses testing to include funding, access and delivery (including provision of testing facilities where necessary).
• Consultant-led Pain management clinic(s)
• Therapies
• Sexual Health screening - Tiers (1, 2)
• Social Care provision - HMP Winchester only via a Section 75 agreement with the Local Authority
• Escort and Bedwatch Services (via a risk share agreement)
• Appropriate administrative and data management support (including data intelligence and reporting resource; data and intelligence analysis)
In addition, the provider will be responsible for ensuring effective and meaningful pathways of care are established with secondary care / community based specialist health provision, including hospital based services, to meet patient's health needs.
The Contract is due to commence on the 1st April 2027 for HMP Ford and HMP Lewes. The maximum total contract value is £54,663,063.
The Contract is due to commence on the 1st July 2027 for HMP/YOI Winchester. The maximum total contract value is £49,994,000.
The Contract term, for all establishments, will be 7 years.
TUPE is likely to apply.
Interested parties who wish to take part in the procurement are invited to take part in an Invitation to Tender (ITT) process, based on the competitive 'open' procedure. All ITT responses must be returned by 12 noon on 31st July 2026, at the latest.
Interested providers will be able to view the opportunity and access the tender documentation via the 'Live Opportunities' list on the e-procurement system, Atamis, available on the following link: https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome
The procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW) on behalf of the Commissioner. SCW is currently subject to restructuring, and the management of this procurement may therefore move to a successor at some point during the procurement process. Bidders will be informed of any such change, and any administrative changes because of it.