Pre-market Engagement- [Network Rail- Private Healthcare]

Description

This soft market testing document and questionnaire has been developed by Network Rail (NR) in advance of procuring a solution for the provision of a Private Healthcare Trust services. NR wishes to incentivise the market to engage with the opportunity and contribute innovation, experience and delivery capability to the delivery of this service. In line with NR’s procurement principles, NR is committed to becoming an ‘informed’ client with excellent visibility and understanding of the market and the supply chains and customers operating within them. At this stage, pre-procurement, NR are committed to engaging with the industry to inform and refine the overall sourcing strategy. The purpose of this soft market testing is to: • Understand the markets capacity and capability to deliver Candidate Management Services • Provide potential suppliers the opportunity to give feedback to help inform the refinement of NR’s approach, • Obtain information from the market to understand the market perspective, The responses to this Questionnaire will be synthesised to identify key market themes, to be shared internally with key stakeholders, to both further inform the sourcing strategy and subsequent procurement process should it be commenced. This soft market testing is not itself a Call for Competition under any EU procurement process (whether pursuant to the Public Contracts regulations 2015, the Utilities Contracts Regulations 2016, the Concession Contracts Regulations 2016, or otherwise). NR does not commit itself to commencing any such sourcing process. Lot 1: Network Rail requires a supplier to administer its private healthcare offering to its management grade employees (Bands 1-4). This is approximately 12,000 employees. This is to be a healthcare trust scheme. This can be either through Network Rail’s existing Trust Deed or through a Master Trust. The scheme must be administered with a stop-loss agreement. The scheme must offer clinical pathways to treatment without a need for a General Practitioner (GP) referral, such as (but not limited to) certain types of cancer, physiotherapy, osteopathy and mental health support. Please see attached market engagement document for more details on the proposed requirement. Additional information: NR is not liable for any costs, fees, or expenses incurred by any party in replying to or attending any PIN event. Any procurement of any services, supplies or works by NR will be carried out strictly in accordance with the provisions of the Procurement Regulation.All responses will be carefully considered but will not bind NR to any approach or strategy,