CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

1.1

Authority Name and Address

1.2

Address from which documentation may be obtained

As in 1.1

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Welsh Transgender Peer Support Service

2.2

Description of the goods or services required

The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board who are seeking to establish a contract for the provision of a Welsh Transgender Peer Support Service.

The Cardiff and Vale Health Board commenced the operation of a Welsh Gender Service from September 2019. The service consists of a multi-disciplinary Wales Gender Team, Local Gender Teams in each Health Board and Direct Enhanced Support to improve support in Primary Care.

The Wales Gender Team are based in St David’s Hospital in Cardiff and began seeing patients in September as part of an incremental implementation of the service.

Cardiff & Vale UHB are seeking an organisation to provide a Peer Support Service to trans and gender diverse people referred to the Welsh Gender Service from various Health Boards and Trusts, currently there are approximately 900 patients on the UK National waiting list.

The service will consist of attending appointments to provide face to face support, contacting patients via telephone to engage and signpost patients to accessible services alongside this peer support service and to develop a relationship between the Health Board and the awarded organisation to transform the current patient experience into an improved and consistent pathway.

The service will aim to provide;

- A Peer Support Service that will be delivered by people with a lived experience of transition or gender incongruence or diversity

- Work in partnership with the Welsh Gender Team to provide appropriate and timely information and support services to patients on the waiting list for assessment and treatment

NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=109606

2.3

Notice Coding and Classification

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

This contract will be from the 1st May 2021 until the 31st March 2022 with regular reviews to confirm that the service is meeting objectives and is value for money.

There will be a twelve month extension option available (at the sole discretion of the Health Board), this will be dependent on whether the Clinical Board have further funding to proceed and can evidence that the provider is realising the aims and objectives of the Wales Gender Team.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

As set out in the tender documents.

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

4.2

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

CAV-ITT-PROJECT46894

4.3

Time Limits

4.5

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

4.6

Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

Please note additional information on this procurement:

1. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to award the contract in whole, in part or annul the tendering process and not award any contract.

2. Bidders should note that they will be required to enter into terms and conditions of contract as set out in the ITT and that save for matters of clarification or consistency the Contracting Authority will not negotiate the terms.

3. The Contracting Authority will not accept completed ITT's after the stated closing date.

4. All documents to be priced (where applicable) in sterling and all payments made in sterling.

5. All tender costs and liabilities incurred by bidders shall be the sole responsibility of the bidders.

6. Bidders wishing to participate should visit the Bravo e-tenderwales portal and access the ITT under itt_86741.

7. Bidders should note that this tender is issued under the Light Touch Regime.

8. Bidders should note that NHS Shared Services Partnership - Procurement Services is acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale ULHB

(WA Ref:109606)

The buyer considers that this contract is suitable for consortia bidding.

5.2

Additional Documentation

5.3

Publication date of this notice