II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKK41
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The services are health and social care services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public
Contracts Regulations 2015 ("the Regulations") which are not subject to the full regime of
the Regulations but are instead governed by the "Light Touch Regime" contained within
Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).
We engaged with providers to work collaboratively as partnerships who have the capability
and capacity to take part in the delivery.
The EOIs received and the market engagement activities were used to help the
Commissioners finalise their commissioning and contracting approach for these services, as
well as, to inform the decision on whether to proceed to a procurement process directly with
the engaged parties.
The procurement process consisted of two stages:
(1) Stage 1 – Suitability Assessment - The aim of this stage was to test the capability and
capacity of potential provider collaborations and to identify whether there was more than one
capable provider partnership.
The evaluation criteria for this pass/fail Suitability Assessment was set out in procurement
documents were issued to the engaged parties;
(2) Stage 2 was:
A partnership “Assurance Process” with a single group, as only one capable provider
partnership was identified at Stage 1.
The evaluation criteria for Stage 2 was set out in the procurement documents issued to engaged parties who were successful at Stage 1;
The contract let as part of this commissioning process is for a period of 4 years, with the option to extend by up to a further 5 years.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Quality criterion: Quality
/ Weighting: 0
Quality criterion: Social Value
/ Weighting: 0
Price
/ Weighting:
0
II.2.11) Information about options
Options:
Yes
Description of options:
The initial contract has been let for 4 years with 2 options to extend for 2 years plus a further option to extend for 1 year (max 9 years in total)
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
For the Assurance Stage of the process the criteria was PASS/FAIL i.e. no weightings
The following thresholds were applied:
Affordability (Price) - £ 2200000
Quality - 'Good' (Score 3)
Social Value 'Good' (Score 3)