CONTRACT 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

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

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

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

The Trust wishes to trial the operation of an Urgent Care Centre (UCC) on the St. Peters site for a period of up to 18 months up until the 31.3.2017, Our vision is for the UCC to reduce substantially the current activity within our Emergency Department (ED), so that the ED is able to concentrate on the most acute patients thus improving the experience of both patients and staff.

The UCC will be located opposite the current Emergency Department (ED) on the St Peter's site.

The UCC will operate between eighteen and twenty four hours, seven days a week, 365 days per year and will share a single reception with the ED. The UCC will act as a single point of access to on-site emergency and urgent care services for walk-in patients. It is expected that the UCC will integrate with current service provision but will develop the distinctive culture and approach of a primary care service, with experienced and appropriately skilled primary care clinicians leading the service, working alongside other healthcare professionals undertaking assessments and seeing and treating patients.

Service providers of the UCC and the ED will be required to work together to ensure fully integrated and seamless care pathways. There will be clear lines of responsibility and accountability, both within and between provider organisations, ensuring handovers of care between providers are fully defined — but seamless to the patient. It is expected that the UCC will not duplicate support services — for example it will have access to the diagnostics and investigations run by the Trust from the hospital site and will not duplicate reception staff.

In this UCC model, the service will not constitute a further access point for routine NHS care in the health economy; neither will it allow duplication of existing services. Patients attending the UCC with routine or out of hours primary care needs will be appropriately and actively navigated back into core primary / community services.

The UCC will see approximately 40 000-50 000 patients per year.

Estimated cost excluding VAT: Range: between 1 800 000 GBP and 2 600 000 GBP per annum, hence for an 18 month pilot 2 700 000 GBP to 3 900 000 GBP.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

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

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

VI.3)

Additional Information

The Trust does not bind itself to accept the lowest offer and reserves the right to accept in whole or in part, each item for this purposes being treated as separately. The Trust cannot be held responsible for any costs incurred by Offerors in relation to the preparation of their offer and any subsequent post offer clarification.

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

VI.4.3)

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

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice