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Acknowledgement : Information request

Dear Edward McMenamin

Thank you for your request for information.

I acknowledge your request to access information from NHS Blood and
Transplant (NHSBT) and am presently dealing with your request under the
terms of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.   We aim to reply within 20
working days, 9^th September 2021.

If you have any queries about this letter, please contact me. Please
remember to quote the reference number above in any future communications.

Yours sincerely

Wayne Lawley

Head of Corporate Communications

E-mail: [1][email address]

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Our ref: MOC/ 426249

3rd September 2021

Dear Edward McMenamin

Re: Information request

Thank you for your request dated 11^th August 2021 for information from
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) as stipulated below:

I would like to submit a Freedom of Information Request comprising of the
below questions.

 1. How many full-time members of staff do you employ?
 2. Are Occupational health services provided to employees?
 3. What are the addresses of the buildings where onsite occupational
health services are provided?
 4. Is the Occupational Health service outsourced or managed in-house?
 5. If the service is outsourced, who is the incumbent provider?
 6. What is the total contract value?
 7. What other services are included in the contract?
 8. Who provides the other services?
 9. When is the contract due for review?
10. When is the tender due for release?
11. How will it be re-tendered?
12. When will the tender notice be issued?
13. Where will the tender notice be issued?
14. Who is responsible for the management of the service?
15. Who is responsible for the management of the contract?
16. Who will be the main person leading the formal tender process?

Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 2000 NHSBT is obliged to:

o Let you know whether we hold the information you have requested
o Provide you with the requested information, if held, (subject to any
exemptions under the Act which may apply).

NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) is a Special Health Authority reporting
to the Department of Health and Social Care. Its remit includes the
provision of a reliable, efficient supply of blood and associated services
to the NHS in England. It is also the organ donor organisation for the
whole of the UK and is responsible for matching and allocating donated
organs.

If you seek information from the Welsh, Scottish or Northern Irish Blood
Services you are required to contact them directly.

I can confirm that NHSBT holds the information you have requested.

 1. Our HR records show that on the 31st July 2021 we had a 6422 headcount
with 5153.77 Whole Time Equivalents.
 2. Yes.
 3. 500 North Bristol Park Filton Bristol BS34 7QH.
 4. Outsourced.
 5. Optima Health.
 6. £270,000
 7. Sickness absence referrals, immunisation services, needle stick 24
hours help line, pre-employment health assessments, Ill health
Retirement, Physiotherapy.
 8. Not applicable.
 9. October 2021.
10. The tender documentation was accessible to invited bidders on the 22nd
July 2021 with submissions requested by the deadline of the 12th
August 2021.
11. The tender process will utilise the CCS framework reference RM6182
Occupational Health, Employee Assistance Programmes and Eye Care
Services – Lot 2. Only the 6 listed/approved suppliers will be invited
to the framework further competition.
12. The only notice that will be issued will be the Framework Agreement
award notice which will be placed in Contracts Finder – this has to be
published within 30 days of contract award which is scheduled for the
11th October 2021 therefore no later than 10th November 2021.
13. The conclusion of the Framework Agreement award notice will be
published in Contracts Finder as per legislation and in compliance
with Regulation 50 of the Public Contracts Regulation 2015.
14. Phil Tanner Assistant Director Health, Safety and Wellbeing.
15. Phil Tanner Assistant Director Health, Safety and Wellbeing.
16. Rosalind Gill National Contracts Manager Estates and Services.

We hope that this has dealt with your request for information, however,
should you remain dissatisfied, you have the right to request that we
conduct an internal review of the way we have handled your request. If you
would like us to conduct such a review, as per guidance from the
Information Commissioners Office (ICO) please contact us within forty
working days of this letter. Please quote the reference number above in
any future communications.

If you are still dissatisfied following the internal review, you have the
right under Section 50 of the FOIA to appeal against the decision by
contacting the Information Commissioners Office (ICO) The ICO provides
full and detailed guidance on the FOIA and on when and how to complain.
Please find below the link to their website page and their helpline
number. [2]https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/offici...
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113 or 01625 545745.

Yours sincerely

Dan Jeffrey

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) &

Assistant Director Data

And

Wayne Lawley

Head of Corporate Communications

E-mail: [3][email address]

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
NHS Blood and Transplant
Do something amazing today - Give Blood.
Organ donation. The gift of life.
You can visit us at [4]www.nhsbt.nhs.uk
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
The views expressed in this e-mail are those of the sender, and not
necessarily those of NHS Blood and Transplant.
This text confirms that this e-mail message and its attachments have been
swept for the presence of computer viruses by NHS Blood and Transplant,
however we cannot guarantee that they are virus free.
All e-mails and their attachments to and from the nhsbt.nhs.uk domain may
be archived, and their contents monitored.

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