Social and other specific services – public contracts
Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
Wakefield Council
171 3131 04
Wakefield One, Burton street
Wakefield
WF1 2EB
UK
Contact person: Karen Towers
Telephone: +44 1924306780
E-mail: ktowers@wakefield.gov.uk
NUTS: UKE4
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.wakefield.gov.uk/
Address of the buyer profile: https://uk.eu-supply.com/ctm/Company/CompanyInformation/Index/104123
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=41345&B=UK
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://uk.eu-supply.com/app/rfq/rwlentrance_s.asp?PID=41345&B=UK
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to the abovementioned address
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
My Life PDSP
Reference number: My Life
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85312400
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The Council is looking to develop a Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System (Pseudo DPS) for the delivery of care and support services.
The Council is seeking applications from suitably qualified and experienced organisations / companies evidencing that they meet the requirements for registration, competency and capacity in accordance with the Service Specification and Contract Agreement, within the Wakefield Metropolitan District (Wakefield District) to deliver My Life Services.
Providers can apply to be on the PDSP to provide services for one or more of the following service user groups:
• Learning Disabilities
• Autism
• Acquired Brain Injuries
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
95 000 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
85312400
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKE4
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Council is looking to develop a Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System (Pseudo DPS) for the delivery of Care and Support services . It is expected that the PDSP will operate for initially for 5 years, with an option to terminate or to extend (at the Council’s sole discretion) for a further 5 years.
Appointment to the PDPS offers no guarantee of any level of business (volume or value) to any Service Provider approved for inclusion onto the PDSP.
Support is payable to Service Providers on the Council’s fixed rates which are currently as follows:
• Hourly rate of £16.84
• Sleep in hourly rate of £9.13
The rates will be reviewed for 2022/23 taking into consideration relevant factors such as the National Minimum Wage, the National Living Wage and any annual local government finance settlement made to the Council. Thereafter the rates will be reviewed on an annual basis at the Council’s discretion in accordance with section 3 (‘Service Payment Review’) of Appendix I (‘Service Payment’) to the General Conditions.
The services required under this procurement fall within schedule 3 of the Public contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102) and are therefore not bound by all of its requirements. The Council will follow its own modified version of the Dynamic Purchasing System process prescribed under regulation 34 for setting up and running this Care and Support Services Pseudo Dynamic Purchasing System.
The initials set-up stage will allow providers to submit their completed questionnaires within the first 30 days of the publication of the PDSP. Once the 30 days has lapsed, any further applications will not be assessed until 9th April 2022.
For support with registration on the YORtender website or if you are having difficulties
accessing the documents through YORtender, please contact the YORtender helpdesk via email to uksupport@eu-supply.com
Successful service provider may be required to participate in the achievement of community wellbeing and positive outcomes for its customers as well as promotion and achievement of social and economic growth and environmental and sustainability policy objectives where this is required by the Contracting Authority in the contract documentation.
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
95 000 000.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 60
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 III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.4) Objective rules and criteria for participation
Providers must be CQC registered
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
08/04/2027
Local time: 23:30
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
For support with registration on the YORtender website or if you are having difficulties
accessingthe documentsthrough YORtender, please contact the YORtender helpdesk via email uksupport@eu-supply.com .
The successful service provider may be required to participate in the achievement of community wellbeing and positive outcomes for its customers as well as promotion and achievement of social and economic growth and environmental and sustainability policy objectives where this is required by the Contracting Authority in the contract documentation.
Providers must hold a relevant and up-to-date Information Security accreditation (eg ISO27001, Cyber Essentials, NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit).
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The Council of the City of Wakefield
Wakefield
WF1 2EB
UK
E-mail: procurement@wakefield.gov.uk
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
The Council of the City of Wakefield
Wakefield
WF1 2EB
UK
E-mail: procurement@wakefield.gov.uk
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
The council will incorporate a minimum voluntary 48 hour day standstill period at the point when information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the public contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England,Wales and Northern Ireland)
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
Council of the City of Wakefield
Wakefield
WF1 2EB
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
06/01/2022