NIHR Evaluations, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) - National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) - NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure

The Department of Health is tendering 3 Contracts with a combined total value of £270M for a contract term of between 5 and 10 years. The intended procurement route will be the OJEU Competitive Procedure with Negotiation.

Lot 1 - NIHR Evaluations, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC)*

Lot 2 - National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) *

Lot 3 - NIHR Office for Clinical Research Infrastructure

• - Lots 1 & 2 have to be separate suppliers

The National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) provides a health research system in which the NHS supports outstanding individuals working in world-class facilities, conducting leading-edge research focused on the needs of patients and the public. The NIHR works in partnership with many sectors including the public and service users, the NHS, public health, other Government funders, the academic and third sectors and industry.

The NIHR Evaluations, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC) is a crucial component of the NIHR providing identification, prioritisation, research commissioning and management facilities for needs led Research Programmes.

The Central Commissioning Facility (CCF) is a crucial component of the NIHR providing research commissioning, management and hosting facilities for:

• Research Programmes.
• Research Schools.
• Research Infrastructure.
• Research Faculty.
• Systems for supporting Research, Growth and the Life Sciences Industry.

The successful bidders will be able to demonstrate:

• R&D commissioning and management expertise.
• A solid institutional base with structures for recruiting and developing research management staff.
• An understanding of key research funding bodies.
• An understanding of DH and NHS.
• Multi-disciplinary skills i.e. finance management, communications, information systems, administrative and secretariat skills.
• Systems and processes to support excellent information governance and data management.

Maximum Range: between 15 000 000 and 176 000 000 GBP (includes Lots 1 and 3)

Additional information: As per paragraph 11.8 of the Prior Information Notice, a supplier was held in London on 6 July 2016. The above documents have been shared with suppliers and for completeness are now available on Contracts Finder.

For any questions, and to register your interest, please contact …@dhsc.gov.uk.

Tender Documents

• Opportunity notice on Contracts Finder → — Tender notice
• NIHR Supplier Event Slides → — Application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
• NOCRI Descriptive Document → — Application/x-zip-compressed
• NETSCC Descriptive Document → — Application/x-zip-compressed
• Procurement Slides from 6 July → — Application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
• Supplier Event - QAs → — Application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
• CCF Descriptive Document → — Application/x-zip-compressed
• Prior information notice → — Tender notice
• Awarded contract notice on Contracts Finder → — Award notice
• NIHR Supplier Event Slides → — Application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
• NOCRI Descriptive Document → — Application/x-zip-compressed
• NETSCC Descriptive Document → — Application/x-zip-compressed
• Procurement Slides from 6 July → — Application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.presentationml.presentation
• Supplier Event - QAs → — Application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
• CCF Descriptive Document → — Application/x-zip-compressed