Early Market Engagement for Psychological Assessment / Fitness for Work and Treatment Services

The National Crime Agency (NCA) is publishing this PIN to invite interested suppliers to register their interest and participate in some staged market engagement. The NCA is looking to procure a replacement contract for the provision of Psychological Assessment / Fitness for Work and Treatment Services and, before launching the procurement, is keen to understand what the current market capacity is to deliver the required services and what the barriers might be to effective competition.

The contract is for an initial period of 2 years, plus 1, plus 1 (total max 4 years) with an estimated value in year 1 of £1m with a total spend up to £4m inclusive of VAT.

It should be noted that the current model as set out in the specification may change over the period of the contract in that the NCA are looking to recruit some of their own staff and as a result the current estimate of 24 days per week may reduce as the NCA increase their psychologist headcount.

The NCA is looking to conduct the market engagement activities in a series of stages commencing with providing bidders with the draft specification to set out the NCA’s technical and security requirements and the core contractual terms to the contract. Bidders are requested to complete the attached Request For Information questionnaire. The responses to this questionnaire will then be reviewed, and depending on the information received, the NCA reserves the right to engage with any of the respondents individually to clarify their responses.

The outcome of this process will then inform how these requirements will then be procured.

Deadline: Participants will need to complete in full and return the Request for Information questionnaire to the abovementioned Sourcing portal by 12:00 Monday 9th September 2024