Occupational Health, Employee Assistance Programmes and Eye Care Services

Access proactive and preventative services as well as treatments to support employee physical and mental health and well-being.

Description

Provides a solution for a range of occupational health services, employee assistance programmes and eye care requirements. The available services reflect the needs and accessibility requirements of the modern and diverse workforce. This includes traditional occupational health services such as:
  • advice
  • referrals
  • health screening
  • surveillance
  • treatments
This agreement also offers innovative and preventative solutions such as, psychological screening and health surveillance, for a proactive approach to employee health and well-being. You will have the flexibility to choose the services that meet your specific needs. The employee assistance programmes uses the latest technology, which allows employees to access support from mobile phone applications or through live chat at any time. This agreement replaces Occupational Health, Employee Assistance Programmes and Eye Care (RM3795). It will run for 4 years with no possibility to extend. You will be able to extend call off agreements past the framework expiry date without limitation. You can determine the length of your call off contract based on your individual needs.

Benefits

  • we evaluated social value to make sure you benefit from the added values our suppliers can give
  • competitive market rates, guaranteed by maximum pricing for agreements (but with flexibility to accommodate exceptional needs)
  • CCS managed compliance checks to make sure suppliers follow the agreements T&C’s
  • dedicated framework contract management
  • opportunity to achieve commercial and change benefits by using technological solutions
  • regional lot which is unique to this agreement and in this field at the time of launch

Carbon Reduction

Some of the suppliers for this agreement have agreed to comply with the Procurement Policy Note 06/21: 'Taking account of Carbon Reduction Plans in the procurement of major government contracts'. If a supplier has published a carbon reduction plan, you can find it on their individual supplier details page.

Products and suppliers

There are 15 suppliers on this agreement

Lot 1: Occupational Health and Employee Assistance Programmes, Fully Managed
Provides you with the opportunity to buy a full occupational health and employee assistance programme under one contract and with a single supplier. Suppliers are able to provide all available services on a national basis and can also meet overseas needs.

Expires:

6 suppliers

Lot 2: Occupational Health on a National Basis
Provides you with the opportunity to buy occupational health services only and independently of their employee assistance programme. Suppliers on lot 2 must be able to provide their services on a national basis and meet overseas needs.

Expires:

6 suppliers

Lot 3: Employee Assistance Programmes
Enables you to buy an employee assistance programme independently of your occupational health needs. Suppliers on lot 3 must be able to provide their services on a national basis and meet overseas needs.

Expires:

6 suppliers

Lot 4.1: Occupational Health on a Regional Basis - London
Enables you to buy an occupational health service from a supplier that is able to provide services locally in a specific region. This lot may include suppliers that also provide on a national basis. Customers that are not geographically widespread can consider all suppliers providing services in their area, no matter their capabilities to provide nationally. We’ve split the UK into the following regions:

  1. London

  2. South

  3. Midlands and East of England

  4. Northern England

  5. Wales

  6. Northern Ireland

  7. Scotland

Expires:

8 suppliers

Lot 4.2: Occupational Health on a Regional Basis - South

Expires:

8 suppliers

Lot 4.3: Occupational Health on a Regional Basis - Midlands and East of England

Expires:

8 suppliers

Lot 4.4: Occupational Health on a Regional Basis - Northern England

Expires:

9 suppliers

Lot 4.5: Occupational Health on a Regional Basis - Wales

Expires:

8 suppliers

Lot 4.6: Occupational Health on a Regional Basis - Northern Ireland

Expires:

5 suppliers

Lot 4.7: Occupational Health on a Regional Basis - Scotland

Expires:

9 suppliers

Lot 5: Eye Care
Enables you to buy corporate eye care services for employees. The offer includes a range of services from eye testing to eyewear, including safety eyewear and a range of different lenses.

Expires:

1 suppliers

How to buy

Direct award

This is suitable if there is only one supplier that meets your needs, or you can clearly see which supplier is the most beneficial to you. You cannot use any supplementary terms and conditions if you choose this option. To place a direct award you will need to:
  1. develop a clear specification of your needs
  2. use the specification and pricing (which you can get by emailing the team), to show that the mandatory requirements fulfil your needs, and to determine which supplier is the most advantageous 
  3. make sure that your chosen supplier is able to accept the award, then award the call-off contract by sending a completed and signed framework schedule 6 to the successful supplier (this can be done electronically)
  4. notify CCS of your award by emailing us 
For more detailed guidance, take a look at framework schedule 7 and customer guidance documents.

Further competition

Invite suppliers from a specific lot to compete for your business to get the best value. For example, you can specify the security clearance needed or minimum qualifications unique to your organisation.  You are free to amend the call off agreement to reflect these. To run a further competition you will need to:
  1. develop your specification and identify the suppliers who can meet your needs 
  2. use framework schedule 6 to refine your contract deliverables (what you need).
  3. develop your further competition award criteria 
  4. invite all identified suppliers to submit a tender in writing – this could be by email or through your preferred e-Sourcing tool (contact details for each supplier representative can be found in the products and supplier section)
  5. set a time limit for the submission of tenders, (take into account the time needed to create and submit tenders and the complexity of your needs)
  6. keep each tender confidential until the time limit set out for the return of tenders has expired
  7. apply your published award criteria to each submitted tender 
  8. award your call-off contract by sending a completed and signed framework schedule 6 to the successful supplier (this can be done electronically)
  9. provide unsuccessful suppliers with written feedback on why their tenders were unsuccessful
  10. notify CCS of your award by emailing us.
  11. publish your contract on contracts finder for transparency purposes

Call off agreement

Whichever option you choose, your call off agreement will set out the legal relationship between you and your chosen supplier. It is based on a standard set of terms and conditions which you can find in RM6182 framework schedule 6: order form template and call-off schedules v.3.6. You can run and manage further competitions using our CCS eSourcing portal. To use this tool for the first time you will need to register an eSourcing account.  Read full customer guidance on how to use the eSourcing portal. If you need more information or would like to speak to a member of our team, send us an email.

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