CONTRACT AWARD 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

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

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Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

Strategic Infrastructure and Efficiency Partnership.

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

The Trust's estate, property portfolio and locations of service delivery (including but not limited to future opportunities commissioned by other bodies and other opportunities pursued by the Trust) throughout the partnership period. This will predominately focus on the Trust's estate in Burton-on-Trent, Lichfield and Tamworth, but may also include a diverse range of sites acquired and used in respect of the Trust's activities including Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Derbyshire and Birmingham.

II.1.3)

This notice involves a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (the ‘Trust’) has appointed a private sector partner (‘Partner’) to provide an intelligent infrastructure strategy function that will support the Trust's clinical strategy to enable service change, improve quality of care for patients and drive efficiency in the Trust's operations including potentially through (but not limited to):

1. Estates rationalisation,

2. Capital programme planning,

3. Raising finance and investment,

4. Strategic service transformation planning, and

5. Also the procurement and project/contract management of a range of services including construction and FM services.

It is expected that these services will be provided to the Trust through the establishment of a joint venture body (JV) between the Trust and the Partner. The Trust predominantly provides services from Queen's Hospital in Burton, Sir Robert Peel Community Hospital in Tamworth and Samuel Johnson Community Hospital in Lichfield. Both of the sites in Lichfield and Tamworth provide a range of services including inpatient and outpatient services and Minor Injuries Units. Maternity services are provided at Queen's Hospital and Samuel Johnson Community Hospital. The Trust offers a total of just over 540 beds as well as a wide range of general hospital services and a purpose built treatment centre. The Trust intends to redevelop/dispose of an adjacent site (Outwoods site).

The Partner will provide the Priority Services (more particularly described below) through the JV upon appointment of the successful partner or shortly thereafter. Responsibility for procuring, coordinating and managing the provision of Secondary Services (more particularly described below) through the JV may be transferred to the partner during the term of the partnership.

The Partner will be expected to deliver Priority Services consisting of Strategic Estates Services. This includes the provision of consultancy support services to provide estate strategy advice (with a focus on achieving efficiencies), preparation of an estates strategy that will support the Trust's clinical strategy and drive efficiency in the Trust's operations and the preparation, review and updating of a partnership business plan to cover the proposed need, phasing of service transformation at the Trust's estate and the timing of the delivery of any proposed new projects or refurbishment projects to deliver capital requirements (‘New Projects’). The Partner is also expected to provide access to, arrange and deliver private sector capital where required to finance New Projects. New Projects may involve (but are not limited to) capital works, refurbishment works, disposal and/or acquisition of land, facilities to support NHS services, related health and social care services as well as commercial developments.

Initial New Projects may potentially include:

— The transformation of services through Community Hospitals and accommodation for the elderly to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the estate and services.

— The redevelopment/disposal of the Outwoods site in Burton and redistribution of the vacated services to the Queen's Hospital site.

— A car parking solution that will complement the Trust's commitment to a green transport plan and improve patient/public experience.

— Commercial opportunities for the benefit of the Trust and patients including catering/a new front entrance/patient contact and customer service opportunities.

To ensure value for money is achieved at the time when projects are commenced and services required (and in observing EU procurement principles on behalf of the Trust), it is expected that the JV via a secondary procurement will competitively tender the supply chain for each New Project or Secondary Service required.

The Partner (through the JV) will therefore provide an integrator role in procuring and coordinating these 3rd party providers to deliver schemes and services for the benefit of the Trust. This integrator role includes the provision of operational project management services in procuring, coordinating and managing external contractors engaged to deliver any proposed and approved New Projects to deliver capital requirements for works, fabrication or traditional estate project procurements and also any external contractors required to deliver secondary services approved by the Trust. The Partner's integrator role may also include providing operational procurement consultancy services in coordinating, managing and conducting procurements observing EU procurement principles to appoint a supply chain to the JV to deliver those services and The Partner may be required to plan, procure, coordinate and manage secondary services which may include:

(1) Facility Support Services — which may include Facilities Management (including Estates Help desk and Energy Management (and incidental energy generation)); Catering; Cleaning; Laundry; Parking and Traffic Management; Security (Infrastructure); Portering; Pest Control; Grounds and Gardens Maintenance; and Clinical and General Waste; and

(2) Customer Satisfaction Services — which may include but not be limited to Reception Services, Customer Satisfaction Services; Patient Contact Centre Services; and

(3) Corporate Back Office Services.

The opportunity is to provide a strategic, commercial, development, investment, procurement, project management and contract management role in delivering capital projects and transforming services to support the Trust's clinical strategy but the scope does not include the provision of delivering the detailed design and construction aspects of the New Projects or the provision of secondary services themselves.

The Trust is interested in the JV seeking other commercial and income generation opportunities in the public and private sector market over the long-term and proposing innovative proposals in support of the Trust's clinical strategy that will maximise income or allow the Trust to reduce costs.

The JV partnership with the successful Partner will be for a period of 10 years with an option to extend the contract for a further 5 years.

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Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.6)

Contract covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

II.2)

Total final value of the contract(s)

II.2.1)

Total final value of the contract(s)

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of procedure

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

IV.2)

Award criteria

IV.2.1)

Award criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction has been used

IV.3)

Administrative information

IV.3.1)

File reference number attributed by the contracting authority

BT14/27

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds?

VI.2)

Additional Information

VI.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

VI.3.3)

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

VI.4)

Dispatch date of this Notice