Tender: Recommissioning of Dorset School-Aged Immunisation Service (starts 1 Aug 2027)

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NHS England South West is seeking a supplier to recommission the School Aged Immunisation (SAI) service as a single lot covering the Dorset Integrated Care Board footprint, providing vaccinations to all school-aged children and young people across state, independent, complex needs and alternative settings, with home-educated children able to access vaccinations via community clinics or at local schools. The current contract ends 31 July 2027 and the new contract will start 1 August 2027 for an initial four-year term with an option to extend up to a further three years; the block-plus-variable contract value is £4,574,822.98 for the initial term and up to £8,005,940.22 including the full three-year extension. The financial model combines a block payment with variable payments for activity above the agreed plan (enhanced tariff for routine immunisations and a marginal tariff for seasonal influenza), and the contract includes a ring-fenced Access & Inequalities Fund based on the proportion of the eligible population in Dorset living in the 20% most deprived postcodes to support targeted interventions (see Schedule 2G). TUPE applies, and the procurement is being run by NHS South, Central and West on behalf of the commissioners, although responsibility for managing the procurement may transfer to a successor organisation during the process.