Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London
SW1P 4DF
UK
Contact person: 2020 MSVCC Procurement Project Team
E-mail: 2020msvcprocurement@homeoffice.gov.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/home-office/about/procurement
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local subdivisions
I.5) Main activity
Social protection
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
2020 Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract
Reference number: C13718
II.1.2) Main CPV code
98341100
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The authority, is committed to raising awareness of the signs of modern slavery, to support victims to build a better life and to bring perpetrators to justice. As part of this commitment the authority is seeking to fulfil the UK's obligations to provide assistance to adult victims of human trafficking, detailed in Articles 11 and 12 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (ECAT) and is procuring a new contract to provide care for adult victims of modern slavery in England and Wales. Through this contract accommodation, support and assistance will be provided to potential victims of modern slavery and human trafficking to assist in their recovery.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
281 000 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
55250000
60140000
79111000
79530000
79540000
85312400
85321000
98341100
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKC
UKD
UKE
UKF
UKG
UKH
UKI
UKJ
UKK
UKL
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The authority, is committed to raising awareness of the signs of modern slavery, to support victims to build a better life and to bring perpetrators to justice. As part of this commitment the authority is seeking to fulfil the UK's obligations to provide assistance to adult victims of human trafficking, detailed in Articles 11 and 12 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings (ECAT) and is procuring a new contract to provide care for adult victims of modern slavery in England and Wales. Through this contract, accommodation, support and assistance will be provided to potential victims of 5/12.
Modern slavery and human trafficking to assist in their recovery. The authority will provide subsistence and support to all those where there are reasonable grounds to believe they might be a victim of human trafficking or modern slavery. The authority seeks a commercial partner to provide the following support and assistance:
• support services — providing accommodation or outreach support depending on the needs of victims;
• 24 Hour referral services — for first responders to refer potential victims requiring immediate support ahead of making a full referral into the National Referral Mechanism;
— transport — of victims and their dependents;
• translation and interpretation — to ensure that victims have the information they need in a language they understand;
• subsistence — a means of providing financial support to victims;
• Reach In support services — for confirmed victims after leaving the main support service to aid the transition back in to society.
The contract will consist of a 6-month mobilisation period, to allow suppliers to secure accommodation, staffing and set up the service to ensure a smooth transition from the existing contract, having minimal impact on the service users — followed by a 5-year contract, with the option to extend by up to 3 years. We anticipate that the services as detailed within the tender documents and supporting annexes will be no greater than GBP 160 million over the initial 5-year term (including mobilisation). The contract values given in II.1.5) and II.2.6) include scope for:
(a) the option to extend the contract from 5 to 8 years,
(b) volumetric variations, and
(c) legislative or policy changes.
The scope of the contract is in line with current legislation, policy and projected volumes of service users. However, the resulting contract must be able to respond to changes, including value increases/decreases and/or as yet unknown legislative or policy changes and volumetric changes and the supplier must commit to being able to undertake the additional services and be able to secure the resources to do so. The authority, at this stage does not commit to provide the full contract value and/or any additional services as the need for these will be reviewed throughout the lifetime of the contract.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Technical evaluation/quality
/ Weighting: 65
Price
/ Weighting:
35
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
II.2.14) Additional information
The authority is not responsible for any bidding costs incurred by potential suppliers in respect of this procurement. The authority reserves the right to abandon the competitive process and not award any contract, make any changes it sees as reasonable to the competition, remove and/or amend element(s) from the scope of the requirements and accept or reject any tender.
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.6) Information about electronic auction
An electronic auction will be used
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2019/S 185-450524
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
Contract No: C13718
Title: 2020 Modern Slavery Victim Care Contract
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
29/06/2020
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
The Salvation Army Trustee Company
00259322
101 Newington Causeway
London
SE1 6BN
UK
NUTS: UKI
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 281 000 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
The contract is likely to be subcontracted
Value or proportion likely to be subcontracted to third parties
Proportion: 89 %
Short description of the part of the contract to be subcontracted:
Provision of accommodation, support services and translation services
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
Respondents are requested to express an interest by Monday 21 October 2019, the process for expression of interest and requesting further information is set out below. For the avoidance of doubt, please note that respondents are required to express an interest separately for this competition regardless of their involvement in the previous market engagement activities for this project. Any such involvement does not constitute an expression of interest for the competition advertised in this notice. The Home Office uses an eSourcing toolkit to enable its sourcing activities to be conducted over the internet. In order to express an interest, please follow the steps set out below. The procurement will be managed electronically via the Crown Commercial Service's eSourcing Suite. To participate in this procurement, participants must first be registered on the eSourcing Suite. If you have not yet registered on the eSourcing Suite, this can be done online at https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk by following the link ‘Register for CCS eSourcing’. Please note that, to register, you must have a valid DUNS number (as provided by Dun and Bradstreet) for the organisation which you are registering and who will be entering into a contract if invited to do so. Full instructions for registration and use of the system can be found at http:// gps.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/i-am Once registered, organisations wishing to participate in the tender must send an email to: 2020MSVCProcurement@homeoffice.gov.uk The email should be entitled ‘2020MSVCC ITT Event — Expression of Interest’ and contain the following details: your organisation's name, your contact name, email address and telephone number. Any expressions of interest not submitted in the required format (or containing the requested information) may be rejected. Participants are requested to express interest by Monday 21 October 2019, to allow sufficient time for the tender administrative process and submission of bids. The authority requires new participants to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) in order to be invited to participate in the competition for this project. On receipt of an email detailed above, the authority will either confirm receipt of an NDA as part of market engagement or provide access to the NDA document through the eSourcing portal. If required, the authority will expect participants to download and re attach a signed copy of the NDA to the event. When saving the ‘pdf’ document, please ensure that you include the participant organisation's name in the filename. Once a correctly signed NDA is received by the authority, participants will be invited to the ITT and will be able to access all of the procurement documentation. The closing date for tender submissions will be 11 a.m. on Wednesday 13 November 2019. ITT clarification requests must be submitted no later than Friday 1 November 2019.
For technical assistance on the use of the eSourcing Suite contact; Crown Commercial Service Help-desk: freephone: +44 3450103503 or email: supplier@ccs.gsi.gov.uk
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The Secretary of State for the Home Department
2 Marsham Street, MSU Team
London
SW1P 4DF
UK
VI.4.3) Review procedure
Precise information on deadline(s) for review procedures:
The Home Office will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day stand still period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to bidders. This period allows unsuccessful bidders to seek further debriefing from the Home Office before the contract is entered into. Applicants have 2 working days from the notification of the award decision to request additional debriefing and that information has to be provided a minimum of 3 working days before the expiry of the standstill period. Such additional information should be requested from the address in section I.1) if an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulation 2006 (SI 2006 No 5) provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk such action must be brought promptly.
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
23/07/2020