NHS Vaccination and Immunisation Services

Description

This award is being made following Direct Award Process A of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.<br/>This service is for the provision of NHS Vaccination and Immunisation Services.<br/>Southend Integrated Healthcare for the Homeless (via Southend Medical Centre) are an existing provider of the health care services to which the proposed contracting arrangements relate. NHSE are satisfied that the health care services to which the contracting arrangements relate to can only be provided by this provider due to the nature of how these services are delivered. The service offered is Opportunistic vaccinations, primarily Influenza, for inpatients. As these patients are restricted to this location whilst a patient no other provider is able to provide this service, due to access restrictions and patient safety in the intermediate care units where the service will be provided.

Key facts

Procedure

Award procedure without prior publication of a call for competition

Lots

1

Contact

Craig Stephens

craig.stephens@nhs.net

Category

services

Awarded suppliers

• Southend Integrated Healthcare for the Homeless (via Southend Medical Centre) · GB-FTS-187753 · UKH31

Ground given for limiting competition

The buyer’s own stated reason for awarding without open competition, as published. Their assertion, not a finding.

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) confirmation of contract award notice. This contract has been awarded under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023. For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Act 2023 do not apply to this award<br/>This award is being made following Direct Award Process A of the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.<br/>The decision was made by Ruwan Wickramasinghe, Head of Public Health Commissioning, NHS England – East of England Region on the 20th October 2026.<br/>No conflicts of interest were declared.<br/>The contract will commence 01 October 2026 and will end 31 March 2028 with an option to extend for a further 12 months.<br/>The total contract value will be £10,000