The University of Southampton is looking to enter into an Eight (8) year contract for the provision of Occupational Health Services for both Staff and Students.

The Provider shall deliver the services that support the University of Southampton in meeting the objectives of:

• Meeting legislative requirements and maintaining duty of care to staff

• Ensuring fitness to work and/or fitness to practice of staff and students.

• Performing inoculations and vaccinations

• The provision of counselling

• Promoting physical and mental wellbeing amongst staff and students to optimise attendance, engagement, resilience, and performance.

• Supporting staff and students with illness, injury or other medical or health requirements assisting in the prevention of health-related problems amongst the University of Southampton' staff and students as a result of their activities and providing assistance in the treatment of any such problems.

• Assisting the University of Southampton to reduce levels of sickness absence.

• Identifying trends in work-related absence and prioritising and tackling significant health and wellbeing-related issues.

The Provider shall at the point of tendering hold Safe Effective Quality Occupational Health Service ('SEQOHS') accreditation or equivalent and this must be maintained for the duration of the contract. It is a requirement that the provider will ensure that any services conducted under the Contract meet the requirements of all relevant legislation, regulations, guidelines, and standards current at the time of delivery. This includes all Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Department for Education (DfE) standards applicable to the services.

The University currently retains an in-house Occupational Health Manager to maintain the triage system, filtering OH requests ahead of referral to the external Provider. The Provider will be required to understand and operate in accordance with this process.

The estimated Contract Value is in the region of £6,000,000 - £10,000,000 GBP (excluding VAT). It is expected that spend will gradually grow over the first few months of the contract and that additional services outlined in the spec may be added in over the course of the contract. Further details on anticipated spend can be found in File 2 of the tender pack.

The essential services required are Pre-employment health assessments, Pre-enrolment health assessments, Occupational Health referrals, Health Surveillance, Pathology Services, Immunisation and Vaccination services, Work accident and Injury management. The desirable services included in the tender are Specialist immunisations and travel advice, Workstation and workplace assessments, Assistance and other specialist referrals and counselling.

This procurement process is being conducted as a Restricted procedure; consisting of both Selection and Invitation to Tender stages.

Stage 1 - Selection Stage: An overall pass mark of 50 % shall apply to this stage. The intention is to arrive at a shortlist of a maximum of five qualified potential suppliers for formal invitation to tender. The maximum number of qualified potential suppliers will be based on the top five scores achieved. Where more than the maximum number of potential suppliers have achieved a top five score (i.e. a tie), all of those potential suppliers will be invited to the Invitation to Tender stage.

Stage 2 - Invitation to Tender (ITT) stage - A maximum of 5 qualified tenderers will be invited to submit formal tenders at this stage