Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Countess of Chester Hospital
Liverpool Road
Chester
CH2 1UL
UK
Telephone: +44 1244365143
E-mail: james.flood1@nhs.net
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.nhssourcing.co.uk
I.1) Name and addresses
Countess of Chester Hospital
Chester
UK
E-mail: james.flood1@nhs.net
NUTS: UKD63
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.coch-cps.co.uk
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
The contract is awarded by a central purchasing body
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Health
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
National Framework Agreement for a Managed Service for the Provision of Payroll and Pension Services
Reference number: F/022/PAY/19/JF
II.1.2) Main CPV code
79211110
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s Commercial Procurement Service has established a framework which will allow NHS authorities and other public sector bodies to procure a payroll and pensions service from a multi supplier framework with a catalogue call-off mechanism and as such no form of further competition will be required.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
50 000 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
30200000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s Commercial Procurement Service has established a framework which will allow clients to seek providers of payroll and pension services, who are able to provide accurate and timely payments to their employees. This will typically include issuing monthly payments to each staff member and may include making and recovering advance payments, upon bespoke request. The service provider is responsible for output of the client authorities Standard Electronic Staff Record (ESR) to their nominated financial services team/supplier. Service providers are expected to offer first line customer service directly to client authorities’ employees to resolve any pay discrepancies, including expenses payments and any variation payments which may occur.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Prerequisites
/ Weighting: Pass Fail
Quality criterion: Technical criterion — standard service delivery
/ Weighting: 60 %
Quality criterion: Technical criterion — innovation and efficiency
/ Weighting: 10 %
Cost criterion: Commercial criteria
/ Weighting: 30 %
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
No
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.3) Information about a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system
The procurement involves the establishment of a framework agreement
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2018/S 242-552933
Section V: Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
01/03/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 8
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
Yes
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
ELFS Shared Services (Hosted by Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust)
Darwen
UK
NUTS: UKD
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Equiniti HR Solutions Limited
Crawley
UK
NUTS: UKJ
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
HR & Wellbeing Business Services
Chester
UK
NUTS: UKD
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Preston
UK
NUTS: UKD
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
NHS Shared Business Services
Hemel Hemstead
UK
NUTS: UKJ
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
NHS Payroll services. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Newcastle upon Tyne
UK
NUTS: UKC
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Salisbury NHSFT Commercial Services
Salisbury
UK
NUTS: UKK
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Sheffield
UK
NUTS: UKE
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 50 000 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Countess of Chester Hospital
Chester
UK
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
Royal Courts of Justice
London
UK
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Countess of Chester Hospital
Chester
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
02/04/2019