Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Wirral Borough Council
Old Market House, 4th Floor, West Wing, Hamilton Street
Birkenhead
CH41 5AL
UK
Contact person: Mr Keith Sailes
Telephone: +44 516663541
E-mail: keithsailes@wirral.gov.uk
Fax: +44 51663705
NUTS: UKD5
Internet address(es)
Main address: http://www.wirral.gov.uk/
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.wirral.gov.uk/
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Regional or local authority
I.5) Main activity
General public services
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Step Up to Social Work — Academic Delivery.
Reference number: DN180763
II.1.2) Main CPV code
80000000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The programme is ‘Step up to Social Work — A Practice Led Programme for Professionals’, which includes the delivery of a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Work in 14 months commencing in January 2018 and completing in March 2019. This contract may be renewable beyond 2019, with the option to renew for successive periods at the same price originally offered (or price offered plus increase agreed / in line with increase in CPI ), to maximum of 5 years duration in total subject to funding availability and need for the training of Newly Qualified Social Workers. The programme will include 170 days of placement in 2 blocks, 30 skills days and 1 200 hours of guided learning. Student numbers and participating Local Authorities may vary during the life of this tender. The programme must be delivered at a location within the boundaries of the Learn Together Partnership.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Lowest offer:
250 000.00
GBP/ Highest offer:
350 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKD5
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The programme is ‘Step up to Social Work — A Practice Led Programme for Professionals’, which includes the delivery of a Postgraduate Diploma in Social Work in fourteen months commencing in January 2018 and completing in March 2019. This contract may be renewable beyond 2019, with the option to renew for successive periods at the same price originally offered (or price offered plus increase agreed / in line with increase in CPI ), to maximum of 5 years duration in total subject to funding availability and need for the training of Newly Qualified Social Workers. The programme will include 170 days of placement in 2 blocks, 30 skills days and 1 200 hours of guided learning. Student numbers and participating Local Authorities may vary during the life of this tender. The programme must be delivered at a location within the boundaries of the Learn Together Partnership.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Quality
/ Weighting: 50
Price
/ Weighting:
50
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.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.9) Information about termination of call for competition in the form of a prior information notice
The contracting authority will not award any further contracts based on the above prior information notice
Section V: Award of contract
Lot No: 1
Contract No: DN180763
Title: Step Up to Social Work — Academic Delivery
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
11/11/2016
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 4
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 4
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Edge Hill University
St Helens Road
Ormskirk
L39 4QP
UK
NUTS: UKD5
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
Lowest offer:
250 000.00
GBP
/ Highest offer:
350 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
Royal Courts of Justice
Strand
London
WC2A 2LL
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
21/12/2016