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Occupational Health with Needle Stick Injury Support Services

NHS STAFFORDSHIRE AND STOKE-ON-TRENT INTEGRATED CARE BOARD · Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender

Tender information last checkedLast checked 29 Sept 2026, 23:06.

Opportunity overview

NHS Midlands and Lancashire Commissioning Support Unit is acting as an agent for NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB and NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB who are conducting this Invitation to Tender for Occupational Health (OH) and Needle Stick Injury Support Service. The Occupational Health and Needle stick Service needs to be accessible to all staff working in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent NHS primary care services, including general practice, community pharmacy, dentistry and optometry services. The service is currently delivered by a local provider; however, this contact is due to expire on 1st October 2025. Full details of the service are set out in the Service Specification within Annex 2, this can be accessed via Atamis. The service provider would be expected to have sufficient staff with competencies and skills in Occupational Health and to provide advice and support to those with needle stick injuries (including the provision of prophylactic management from needle stick injury) The proposed contact duration is 16 months with the option to extend for a further 2-years with mutual consent. The new contract would aim to commence on 1st October 2025. The proposed contract is a cost and volume contract with a current activity value is of approximately £35,134 per annum. The total contract value for the initial 16 month contract period is £52,612 and the lifetime value including the optional 2-year extension period is expected to be approximately £276,320 ; this is for the Occupational Health Service and to support those with Needle Stick Injuries.

Awarded to

Amounts belong to published awards or contracts. Where several suppliers share one value, it is labelled as shared and is not a supplier-specific allocation.

HEALES HEALTH SERVICES LTD.

Matched by number
Published award value
£138.2k
Awarded
8 Sept 2025
Award ID
1
Status
active
Identifier
GB-COH 05521879
Location
Hitchin, UKH23, SG5 2DF, United Kingdom

Classification

  • CPV85147000 — Company health services

Lots

  • Lot 1£545.1k

Documents and notices

Published notice details

Additional information from the published procurement release. Fields appear only when supplied by the source; check the original notice and tender documents before acting.

Scope, procedure and submissions

Id
ocds-h6vhtk-04eff2
Status
complete
Above Threshold
No
Procurement Method
open
Main Procurement Category
services
How to submit
To register on Atamis If you have not accessed with the portal before you will need to click Register from the landing page and complete the required form. 1) Register on the portal webpage https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome (https://healthfamily. force.com/s/Welcome) (registration and use of the website is free of charge). 2) Once registered, to search for tendering opportunities that have been published by the buying organisation, click Find Opportunities. 3) From the Find Opportunities page, click on the title of an opportunity. If the tendering project is at the stage where it is open for suppliers to express interest, you will be able to click Register Interest. For this project the contract reference on Atamis is C378854. For technical support in submitting your Expression of Interest or registering on the 'Atamis Electronic Sourcing system please contact the Atamis helpdesk via email: support@atamis.co.uk . All communications from providers should come through the Atamis portal. Strictly no other forms of communication to MLCSU or the Commissioner will be accepted (including telephone calls, postal queries/submissions, faxes or email communications) during this period.
Procurement Method Details
Below threshold - open competition

Amendments

Entry 1
Id
013070-2025
Description
Due to a technical error within the Atamis system, this notice has been extended to the 16th April 2025
Entry 2
Id
046598-2025
Description
corrected the duplication of the Integrated Care Board's listed to NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB and NHS Shropshire , Telford and Wrekin ICB

Legal basis

Id
2023/54
Scheme
UKPGA

Tender Period

Ends
20 Aug 2025, 12:00

Communication

Future Notice Date
21 Apr 2025, 23:59

Enquiry period

Ends
13 Aug 2025, 12:00

Special regime

lightTouch

Submission terms

Electronic Submission Policy
allowed

Lots and requirements

Entry 1
Id
1
Status
complete
Has Renewal
Yes

Value

Amount
545,149.2
Currency
GBP
Including VAT
654,179.04

Renewal

Description
Up to 2 year optional extension

Suitability

Sme
Yes
Vcse
Yes

Award criteria

Criteria

Criterion 1
Name
Quality
Type
quality

Numbers

Entry 1
Number
70
Weight
percentageExact
Criterion 2
Name
Value for Money
Type
cost

Numbers

Entry 1
Number
30
Weight
percentageExact

Contract period

Ends
31 Jan 2027, 23:59
Starts
1 Oct 2025, 00:00
Max Extent Date
31 Jan 2029, 23:59

Items and delivery

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKG2
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 2
Region
UKG2
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 3
Region
UKG21
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 4
Region
UKG22
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 5
Region
UKG23
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 6
Region
UKG24
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 7
Region
UKG21
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 8
Region
UKG22
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 9
Region
UKG23
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Entry 10
Region
UKG24
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
85147000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Company health services

Published documents

Entry 1
Id
046463-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK4
Description
Tender notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
tenderNotice
Published
6 Aug 2025, 11:57
Entry 2
Id
046598-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK4
Description
Tender notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
tenderNotice
Published
6 Aug 2025, 15:18

Planning and budget

Documents

Entry 1
Id
010496-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
20 Mar 2025, 16:07
Entry 2
Id
013070-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK2
Description
Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
marketEngagementNotice
Published
4 Apr 2025, 12:37

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
engagement
Type
engagement
Status
scheduled
Due
16 Apr 2025, 23:59
Description
MLSCU is acting as an agent for NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB who are conducting this initial engagement exercise to establish potential interest to deliver an Occupational Health (OH) and Needle Stick Injury Service. The Occupational Health and Needle stick Service needs to be accessible to all staff working in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent NHS primary care services, including general practice, community pharmacy, dentistry and optometry services The service is currently delivered by a local provider; however, this contact is due to expire on 1st August 2025. Full details of the service are set out in the Service Specification within Annex 1 - please see section II.2.14 regarding how to access this documentation. The service provider would be expected to have sufficient staff with competencies and skills in Occupational Health and to provide advice and support to those with needle stick injuries (including the provision of prophylactic management from needle stick injury) The proposed contact duration is 18 months with the option to extend for a further 2-years with mutual consent. The new contract would aim to commence on 1st August 2025. The proposed contract is a cost and volume contract with a current activity value is of approximately £80,000 per annum. The total contract value for the 18 month contract period plus the optional 2-year extension period is expected to be approximately £256,000; this is for the Occupational Health Service and to support those with Needle Stick Injuries. It is possible that TUPE may apply to the award of any new contract for the above service. Potentially interested parties are invited to feedback their comments with regards to their interest, capacity, capability and readiness in delivering these services. Commissioners wish to understand; 1 Organisation name 2 Organisation contact details - Contact name - Phone number - Email address - Postal Address 3 Please confirm your current organisational structure (VCSE, Public Sector, Private Venture) - please include/attach an organisational chart where possible. 4 Are you currently providing a Occupational Health Service including Needle Stick Injuries If you are a private provider, are you providing services under an NHS Contract with an NHS Commissioner or NHS Trust? If so, please state which Commissioner / Trust your contract is with and provide contract start and end dates?" 5 Does you organisation have the capability, capacity and readiness to provide the service as per the draft service specification that is easily accessible from Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent? If so, please provide further details. (The draft Service Specification will be accessible in the 'Documents' section within the Atamis project C340355.) Please provide an overview of your area of expertise and previous experience of delivering Occupational Health including Needle Stick Injuries 6 Please share any comments or feedback that you may have on the draft service specification based on your experience. 7 Given the need for Needle Stick Injury support as part of the Occupational Health service provision required as per the draft specification, would your organisation consider providing elements of this Service with a network of providers? 8 During working hours, the expectation is that an eligible worker at risk of a blood borne disease needs to be able to contact a triage hotline where they can receive urgent OH risk assessment at time of calling , outside of working hours this needs to then reviewed within a 48 hour triage. Please advise if you feel this is possible and how quickly your organisation can respond? Providers will only be considered if they are able to provide Needle Stick Injury Support Providers are requested to answer these questions within the Atamis requirements section when registering interest (via https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome ref C340355) by 12:00 hours on Wednesday 16th April 2025. NHS Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent ICB is not bound to follow any particular procurement process at this stage. Responding to this EOI will not guarantee providers further involvement in any future process the ICB decides to follow. Should this Early Engagement lead to a Procurement process, providers will be required to register interest for this separately and should not rely on their response to this PIN notice. The ICB has not determined which Procurement process to follow at this stage of Early Engagement. The ICB welcomes feedback on the proposed specification for this service, but is not obliged to rely on provider information given in response to this request for expressions of interest.

Buyer, suppliers and contacts

Organisation 1
Id
GB-PPON-PMRD-4914-TDDX
Name
NHS STAFFORDSHIRE AND STOKE-ON-TRENT INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKG24
Country
GB
Locality
Stafford
Postal Code
ST16 2LP
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
1 Staffordshire Place

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
publicAuthorityCentralGovernment
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Public authority - central government

Identifier

Id
PMRD-4914-TDDX
Scheme
GB-PPON

Contact

Name
Emma Hardman
Organisation 2
Id
GB-NHS-0CX
Name
NHS MIDLANDS AND LANCASHIRE COMMISSIONING SUPPORT UNIT
Role Details
acting as an agent on behalf of the ICB's

Roles

procuringEntity
processContactPoint

Address

Region
UKG23
Country
GB
Locality
Stoke-on-Trent
Postal Code
ST1 2QB
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Bennett House, Town Road

Identifier

Id
0CX
Scheme
GB-NHS

Contact

Additional Identifiers

Entry 1
Id
PGTM-4634-DGZQ
Scheme
GB-PPON
Organisation 3
Id
GB-NHS-QOC
Name
NHS SHROPSHIRE, TELFORD AND WREKIN INTEGRATED CARE BOARD

Roles

buyer

Address

Region
UKG21
Country
GB
Locality
Telford
Postal Code
TF1 1LX
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
Wellington Civic Offices, Larkin Way, Tan Bank, Wellington

Details

Classifications

Entry 1
Id
publicAuthorityCentralGovernment
Scheme
UK_CA_TYPE
Description
Public authority - central government

Identifier

Id
QOC
Scheme
GB-NHS

Contact

Additional Identifiers

Entry 1
Id
PGZQ-6523-JGTT
Scheme
GB-PPON
Organisation 4
Id
GB-COH-05521879
Name
HEALES HEALTH SERVICES LTD.

Roles

supplier

Address

Region
UKH23
Country
GB
Locality
Hitchin
Postal Code
SG5 2DF
Country Name
United Kingdom
Street Address
29 Bridge Street

Details

Vcse
No
Scale
sme

Identifier

Id
05521879
Scheme
GB-COH

Contact

Additional Identifiers

Entry 1
Id
PLTV-4796-PGDH
Scheme
GB-PPON

Award information

Award 1
Id
1
Date
9 Sept 2025, 00:00
Status
active
Has Renewal
Yes
Above Threshold
No
Main Procurement Category
services

Items

Item 1
Id
1
Related Lot
1

Delivery locations

Entry 1
Region
UKG2
Country
GB
Country Name
United Kingdom

Additional Classifications

Entry 1
Id
85147000
Scheme
CPV
Description
Company health services

Value

Amount
138,159.9
Currency
GBP
Including VAT
165,791.88

Renewal

Description
optional up to 2 years extension

Documents

Entry 1
Id
055132-2025
Format
text/html
Notice Type
UK6
Description
Contract award notice on Find a Tender
Document Type
awardNotice
Published
9 Sept 2025, 16:15

Suppliers

Supplier 1
Id
GB-COH-05521879
Name
HEALES HEALTH SERVICES LTD.

Milestones

Entry 1
Id
1
Type
futureSignatureDate
Status
scheduled
Due
12 Sept 2025, 23:59

Related lots

1

Contract period

Ends
31 Jan 2027, 23:59
Starts
1 Oct 2025, 00:00
Max Extent Date
31 Jan 2029, 23:59

Recorded locations

  • Buyer location · Stafford · UKG24 · ST16 2LP · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKG21 · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKG22 · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKG23 · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKG24 · United Kingdom
  • Delivery location · UKG2 · United Kingdom

Notice and amendment history

1 published notice version reviewed by ProcuraAxis.

1 VERSION
  1. ocds-h6vhtk-04eff2-2025-09-09T16:15:34+01:00Preliminary market engagement notice on Find a Tender ·