II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKC
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
Occupational health and counselling services to Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust Group and Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust.
Please note this is a contract award notice and not a new opportunity.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Please provide a methodology that provides details of your workforce and the organisational structure proposed to provide and support this service. This should include the number of sessions the occupational health consultant will provide at each location and the frequency of such sessions, e.g. weekly, monthly and session times
/ Weighting: 7.5
Quality criterion: Please detail your proposal as to how you could enable Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Trust (Group) and Tees and Esk Wear Valley NHS Trust to access/offer an ‘out of hours’ service and/or EAP service
/ Weighting: 2.5
Quality criterion: Please provide details of how you would propose to manage any associated variations in the trusts historical activity profile (see Appendix A)
/ Weighting: 5
Quality criterion: Please provide details of how you propose to implement the occupational health and counselling service within the organisations and how will you handle/integrate the existing occupational health cases?
/ Weighting: 5
Quality criterion: Please detail how you will launch/communicate the occupational health and counselling service to staff within Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Trust (Group) and Tees and Esk Wear Valley NHS Trust
/ Weighting: 5
Quality criterion: Please state how you will ensure that the occupational health and counselling services complies with all statutory and legal requirements?
/ Weighting: 5
Quality criterion: Please provide a method statement outlining your company approach to Information Governance and how this will contribute to the protection of information relating to patients and/or trust staff
/ Weighting: 5
Quality criterion: Tenders should demonstrate competence with reference to robust evidence from elsewhere. Please provide details of two contracts that you have been awarded or delivered in the last three years. Please detail how that experience will be relevant to and can be applied for the benefit of Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Trust (Group) and Tees, Esk Wear Valley NHS Trust. Please provide contact points for the above organisations
/ Weighting: 7.5
Quality criterion: Please detail any previous experience in the provision of occupational health services within an NHS or Healthcare environment and describe how this experience will benefit Northumberland Tyne and Wear NHS Trust (Group) and Tees, Esk Wear Valley NHS Trust
/ Weighting: 7.5
Quality criterion: Please describe how you propose to meet the KPIs (Appendix C) and meet/exceed the management information requirement and demonstrate quality, speed of delivery and customer satisfaction
/ Weighting: 5
Quality criterion: Please provide details of the added value and/or innovation you feel you could offer the organisations?
/ Weighting: 2.5
Quality criterion: What innovation will you bring to the organisations to reduce absence levels?
/ Weighting: 2.5
Quality criterion: Please detail how you propose to manage and maintain the quality of service provision for the duration of the contract
/ Weighting: 4
Quality criterion: Please confirm that a named account manager will be assigned to the contract. If possible please confirm the name of the proposed person. Please detail how this role will ensure that the service standards are met
/ Weighting: 4
Quality criterion: Please provide details as to how you will manage adequate replacement cover for absences, including annual leave, sick leave, etc.
/ Weighting: 4
Quality criterion: ‘How do you intend to: • learn about the organisation, the services it delivers and the challenges it faces with regard to attendance issues? • familiarise/learn the culture of the organisations? • embed as part of the organisations? ’
/ Weighting: 4
Quality criterion: How will you ensure that you know both organisations training techniques/requirements, etc.?
/ Weighting: 4
Cost criterion: Contract Cost
/ Weighting: 20
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
Option to extend the initial 36 month term by up to an additional 24 months.
II.2.13) Information about European Union funds
The procurement is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds:
No