CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

NHS Chiltern Clinical Commissioning Group

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

Buckinghamshire, England.

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Aylesbury Vale CCG and Chiltern CCG are procuring a county wide Primary Medical Care Service which will include an Out of Hours (OOH) service and an Urgent Care Centre (UCC) in High Wycombe. These will commence on 1.4.2017 and will follow on from existing services. This service will be a functionally integrated part of the new Thames Valley NHS 111 Integrated Urgent Care Service, which is also being procured currently (under a separate process). The winning bidder for the Buckinghamshire OOH and UCC contract will be expected to have an excellent working relationship with the winner of the Thames Valley wide service. As an important step towards integration, Buckinghamshire is moving the payment for all telephone consultations into the new Thames Valley 111 Integrated Urgent Care Service. As a result the out of hours component of this OOH and UCC procurement will not include payment for telephone consultations, but only include face to face consultations at Primary Care Centre bases and home visits.

Bidders must be able to demonstrate considerable expertise and experience in delivering OOH and UCC services which are integrated with local primary, community and secondary care as well as social care services. This will improve the quality of services through a reduction in the duplication for patients as well as achieving improved efficiency and value for public funds. Bids are welcomed from individual organisations, consortiums or ‘lead providers’ working with sub-contractors but all must be in a position to sign 1 single contract.

The service will be staffed by GPs and other suitable clinicians who are able to reduce the number of subsequent contacts patients have with the NHS because they meet patients' needs on their first point of contact with the OOH or UCC service. To achieve this staff will have an excellent and detailed understanding of other local NHS and social care services. The successful provider will also be able to attract sufficient high quality staff to fill rotas and so ensure sufficient capacity to meet demand. As a result the winning bidder will deliver robust out of hospital services which meet patients' needs in the community and so reduce demand for emergency department attendances and hospital admissions.

The OOH service will be responsible for the whole Buckinghamshire registered population of approximately 540 500 people registered with Chiltern and Aylesbury Vale CCG Practices (with the sole exception of the Denham practice as they provide their own OOH service). There are also additional out of area patients visiting and requiring these services. This service will include managing any necessary sub contracts with neighbouring OOH providers that Buckinghamshire residents may be referred to. It will provide face to face consultations in Primary Care Centre bases and home visiting but will not be funded to provide telephone consultations as these will be part of the new integrated Thames Valley 111 Urgent Care Service.

The Urgent Care Centre will provide 24/7 treatment for minor injury and illness and be based at the Wycombe General Hospital site in High Wycombe. Primary care clinicians will lead the provision of these urgent care services. ‘Blue light’ and other seriously ill patients requiring emergency treatment will be referred directly to the Accident and Emergency department at Stoke Mandeville Hospital without moving through the UCC. Current activity is c. 38 000 patients per year.

The contract length will be for 5 years from 1.4.2017 to 31.3.2022 with an option to extend for 2 years by mutual agreement. The estimated contract value will be in the region of 6 000 000 GBP per annum.

Further information on how to express interest, including a copy of the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire can also be downloaded from the In-tend website (https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home). Expressions of interest (including completed PQQ responses) must be received by 13:00 on the 4.5.2016.

Please note that this service is a healthcare service within the meaning and scope of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 and are therefore not governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The tendering process will therefore be conducted in accordance with the current legislation that applies to the tendering of healthcare services within the meaning and scope of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013. The Commissioners will run a fair and transparent tender process, treating all bidders equally. For the avoidance of doubt, the Commissioner will not be bound by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. In addition, the Commissioner will not be bound by the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these services.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts

II.3)

Duration of the contract or limit for completion

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.1)

Conditions Relating to the Contract

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required

As per tender documentation.

III.1.2)

Main Terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the relevant provisions

As per tender documentation.

III.1.3)

Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded

As per tender documentation.

III.1.4)

Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject

As per tender documentation.

III.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

As per tender documentation.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

The contract is restricted to sheltered workshops
The execution of the contract is restricted to the framework of sheltered employment programmes

III.3)

Conditions Specific to Service Contracts

III.3.1)

Is provision of the service reserved to a specific profession?

III.3.2)

Will legal entities be required to state the names and professional qualifications of the personnel responsible for the execution of the service?

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

As per tender documentation.

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

SCW/NHSSCWCSU/00000179/2016

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

VI.3)

Additional Information

Please note that this service is a healthcare service within the meaning and scope of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 and are therefore not governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The tendering process will therefore be conducted in accordance with the current legislation that applies to the tendering of healthcare services within the meaning and scope of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013. The Commissioners will run a fair and transparent tender process, treating all bidders equally. For the avoidance of doubt, the Commissioner will not be bound by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. In addition, the Commissioner will not be bound by the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these services.

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

VI.4.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice