Wolverhampton City Council

Civic Centre, St Peters Square

Wolverhampton

WV1 1RL

UK

Contact person: Ade Winjobi

Telephone: +44 1902556556

E-mail: Adebimpe.Winjobi@wolverhampton.gov.uk

NUTS: UKG39

Internet address(es)

Main address: http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk

Address of the buyer profile: http://www.wolverhampton.gov.uk

II.1.1) Title

Reference number: DN708416

II.1.2) Main CPV code

85140000

II.1.3) Type of contract

Services

II.1.4) Short description

Wolverhampton has higher levels of adult obesity, overweight or obese and smoking than England and West Midlands averages. There are currently only targeted offers available through the national digital tier 2 weight management programme. There is no universal offer in Wolverhampton for tier 2 weight management.

The service will provide Service Users with vouchers for a 12-week face to face weight loss programme which will support Service Users to safely achieve calorie deficit and a healthy balanced diet, develop heathier eating habits and embed behaviour change.

The procurement procedure to be followed will be in accordance with The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, No. 1348 - PART 2 - Regulation 11, The Competitive Process. Regulations 6(7) and 11 set out the process that the authority must follow when awarding a contract under the competitive process.

The complete Competitive Process is detailed with the ITT document, found free of charge at the website address documented within this contract notice https://www.wolverhamptontenders.com .

II.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

III.1.4) Objective rules and criteria for participation

Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents.

Exclusion criteria detailed in Regulation 20.

Basic selection criteria as outlined in Schedule 16.

IV.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

IV.1.10) Identification of the national rules applicable to the procedure:

Information about national procedures is available at: (URL)

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/1348/contents/made

IV.1.11) Main features of the award procedure:

The Council (authority) will assesses any offers received in accordance with The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023, No. 1348.

The evaluation process is separated into the following stages:

1) The Council (authority) will assess, and may exclude a provider from the PSR process and discount without further assessment, if the provider meets the exclusion criteria detailed in Regulation 20.

2) The Council (authority) will assess if providers are considered suitable to provide a service by applying the basic selection criteria as outlined in Schedule 16 – a provider that does not meet the basic selection criteria may be discounted without further assessment.

3) Key Criteria; - Quality & Innovation; Integration, Collaboration, Service Sustainability; Improving access, reducing health inequalities, facilitating choice and Social Value, which evaluates how suppliers propose to deliver the service; and

4) Key Criteria Value, which evaluates the commercial aspects of the bid. This stage is only evaluated once the previous, stipulated stages have been completed.

5) The key criteria / award criteria split is as follows;

Integration, collaboration, and service sustainability 20%

Quality and Innovation 20%

Improving access, reducing health inequalities,

and facilitating change 25%

Social Value 5%

Value 30%

The complete evaluation process is detailed with the ITT document, found free of charge at the website address documented within this contract notice. Wilful misrepresentation of a bid by a provider will result in exclusion from the provider selection process.

IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of expressions of interest

Date: 25/03/2024

Local time: 12:00

IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted

EN

VI.4.1) Review body

VI.4.3) Review procedure

Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:

The standstill period requirements, including for the reviewing of decisions, are detailed in Regulations 12 and 14(3). Provision for independent expert advice is set out in Regulation 23.

Providers may make a representation to the relevant authority within the first eight working days following the start of the standstill period (ie eight working days starting with the first working day following the day after the intention to award notice has been published). Providers cannot submit a representation after that period, even if the standstill period has been extended in response to a representation from another provider.

Relevant authorities are only obliged to respond to representations that meet all the following conditions:

the representation comes from a provider that might otherwise have been a provider of the services to which the contract relates

the provider is aggrieved by the decision of the relevant authority

the provider believes that the relevant authority has failed to apply the regime correctly and is able to set out reasonable grounds to support its belief

the representation is submitted in writing (which includes electronically) to the relevant authority within eight working days of the start of the standstill period.

If a provider remains unsatisfied about the response given by a relevant authority to their representations, then that provider may seek the involvement of the Independent Patient Choice and Procurement Panel.

If a provider wishes to request the panel to consider their representation further, then they must submit their request through the panel’s website (find address below) within five working days of receiving the relevant authority’s decision following the relevant authority’s review of their representation.

https://www.england.nhs.uk/commissioning/how-commissioning-is-changing/nhs-provider-selection-regime/independent-patient-choice-and-procurement-panel/.