Integrated Healthcare Services to HMP Ford, HMP Lewes, and HMP/YOI Winchester - Market Engagement Event
Description
This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice (PIN) to inform the market of NHS England Health and Justice South East's, (the Commissioner's) intention to recommission services for HMP Ford, HMP Lewes, and HMP/YOI Winchester. It follows a previous PIN (2025/S 000-085390), published in December 2025, which invited interested parties to attend a market engagement event due to held in February 2026. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event had to be postponed.
The purpose of this PIN is to inform the market of the revised date for the event.
The Commissioner's intention is to recommission outcome focused, integrated primary healthcare services within the establishments, equivalent to that available to the local community, delivering physical health, mental health, substance misuse and dental services.
The Commissioners will be contracting the services using a prime provider model and will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.
At this time, the Commissioner would like to understand the level of provider interest in delivering the services and warmly invites interested parties to attend a market engagement event being held on:
Friday 24th April 2026 between 10:00 - 15:00 at Multifunction Space (Ground Floor), Ordnance Survey, Explorer House, Adanac Drive, Southampton, SO16 0AS.
The purpose of the event will be to share further detail of the commissioner's aims and objectives for the services, as well as provide an opportunity for commissioners to obtain valuable feedback from providers and key stakeholders to help inform the commissioning strategy. Details on how to register to attend the event are provided below.
The Commissioner anticipates commencing a competitive procurement process in the summer of 2026, with the view to award the contract/s by December 2026.
The procurement is likely to be lotted as follows:
โข Lot 1: HMP Ford and HMP Lewes
โข Lot 2: HMP/YOI Winchester
The Contract term, for all establishments, is anticipated to be 7 years.
Contract commencement for HMP Ford and HMP Lewes is anticipated to be 1st April 2027. The maximum total (indicative) contract value is ยฃ52,700,000.
Contract commencement for HMP/YOI Winchester is anticipated to be 1st July 2027. The maximum total (indicative) contract value is ยฃ50,130,000.
TUPE is likely to apply.
This exercise is being carried out by NHS South, Central & West (SCW) on behalf of the commissioners.
This notice is placed as a Prior Information Notice (PIN) to inform the market of NHS England Health and Justice South East's, (the Commissioner's) intention to recommission services for HMP Ford, HMP Lewes, and HMP/YOI Winchester. It follows a previous PIN (2025/S 000-085390), published in December 2025, which invited interested parties to attend a market engagement event due to held in February 2026. Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event had to be postponed.
The purpose of this PIN is to inform the market of the revised date for the event.
The Commissioner's intention is to recommission outcome focused, integrated primary healthcare services within the establishments, equivalent to that available to the local community, delivering physical health, mental health, substance misuse and dental services.
The Commissioners will be contracting the services using a prime provider model and will hold a contract with the prime provider, who in turn can directly provide care and/or subcontract care to other specialist providers.
At this time, the Commissioner would like to understand the level of provider interest in delivering the services and warmly invites interested parties to attend a market engagement event being held on:
Friday 24th April 2026 between 10:00 - 15:00 at Multifunction Space (Ground Floor), Ordnance Survey, Explorer House, Adanac Drive, Southampton, SO16 0AS.
The purpose of the event will be to share further detail of the commissioner's aims and objectives for the services, as well as provide an opportunity for commissioners to obtain valuable feedback from providers and key stakeholders to help inform the commissioning strategy. Details on how to register to attend the event are provided below.
HMP Ford is situated near Arundel in West Sussex. It is a category D open male prison, focused on the resettlement of prisoners, with an operational capacity of 389.
HMP Lewes is situated in Lewes, East Sussex. It is a category B local remand and resettlement prison for young offenders and adult males remanded or sentenced to 12 months or less. It has an operational capacity of 624.
HMP/YOI Winchester is located in Winchester, Hampshire. It is a category B local prison that serves the local courts, with a small category C resettlement unit (West Hill). The prison houses sentenced and remand young offender and adult males and has an operational capacity of 678.
The services will be commissioned as part of the overall Offender Health pat
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About This Opportunity
This is a services contract in the health and medical services sector, with a focus on Hospitals. Located in United Kingdom, Europe, this opportunity is open to firms and consortiums, with an estimated budget of GBP 102.8 million.
Published through UK FTS - Find a Tender Service, a national government procurement portal. Public procurement tenders follow the country's national bidding regulations and may have specific eligibility and documentation requirements for services in the health and medical services sector. Service contracts are typically evaluated on both technical quality and price, and may require bidders to demonstrate relevant experience and qualified personnel. This is an advance notice โ the formal tender is expected to be published shortly. Interested parties can use this time to prepare documentation and identify potential partners.