Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS South Warwickshire CCG
Westgate House, Market St
Warwick
CV34 4DE
UK
Contact person: Richard Ward
E-mail: richard.ward11@nhs.net
NUTS: UKG13
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.southwarwickshireccg.nhs.uk/
Address of the buyer profile: https://www.southwarwickshireccg.nhs.uk/
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=27195&B=OGC
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=27195&B=OGC
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to the abovementioned address
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Body governed by public law
I.5) Main activity
Health
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Community Ophthalmology Service (South Warwickshire CCG)
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85100000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
NHS South Warwickshire CCG is undertaking a procurement for the provision of a Community Ophthalmology Service.
The contract duration will be 3 years (36 months) with an option to extend for a further 2 years (24 months).
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
3 772 861.65
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
85100000
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKG13
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The CCG wish to commission a community-based ophthalmology service for patients registered with a South Warwickshire GP who present with:
— defined acute eye conditions,
— defined chronic conditions.
Patients will be directly referred to this service for triage and where possible, patients will be assessed and provided with the appropriate treatment/advice in a single visit. Referrals will be accepted from a South Warwickshire GP, optometrist, A&E Department, Eye Casualty or 111 (Triage tool to be agreed with the commissioner).
The service will comprise of three main tiers, which are covered within the service specification, but can be delivered by multiple organisations with partnership or subcontracting arrangements, or by a single provider for all tiers.
Providers are responsible for coordinating partnership or subcontracting arrangements between themselves. Service delivery needs to be integrated and seamlessly delivered to patients.
Reporting needs to be coordinated and presented centrally as per reporting requirements set out in the NHS standard contract Section 6.
The service will have a suitable level of clinical delivery, supervision and leadership, and will be consultant-led. This means a consultant will be accountable for the delivery of the service, available and contactable when necessary and will retain overall responsibility while the service is open.
All new referrals will be triaged by appropriately skilled clinicians (in the view of the lead consultant) who will signpost the patient to the most appropriate service or pathway for treatment. This triage function will also be consultant led and therefore by definition, the consultant will have oversight and be accountable for the safe and accurate delivery of all aspects of the service.
The provider will work to best practice as published nationally, including, but not limited to, the development of schemes set out by NHSE Elective Care Transformation Programme and other guidance published during the contract term:
1) The development, implementation and management of a standardised cataract referral forms;
2) The triage of Glaucoma referrals onto the correct care pathway (dependent upon complexity);
3) Implementation of a patient education programme with supporting patient decision aids;
4) Liaison and support to upskill community optometrists optimising diagnostic and referral quality.
These service developments will be established and implemented during the course of the contract and will be detailed with applicable timescales within the NHS Standard Contract Particulars Section 6d; Service Development Improvement Plan (SDIP).
The provider is expected to continually work with the commissioner to further develop and improve the service in line with shifting demand.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
3 772 861.65
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 60
This contract is subject to renewal: No
II.2.9) Information about the limits on the number of candidates to be invited
II.2.10) Information about variants
Variants will be accepted:
No
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
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.1) Suitability to pursue the professional activity, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers
List and brief description of conditions:
All professional and/or trade registrations is specified within the tender documentation.
III.1.2) Economic and financial standing
List and brief description of selection criteria:
Financial standing requirements for the procurement are outlined within Document 1 — ITT Process Overview, Section 9.4 Financial Standing.
Minimum level(s) of standards required:
Financial standing requirements for the procurement are outlined within Document 1 — ITT Process Overview, Section 9.4 Financial Standing.
III.1.3) Technical and professional ability
List and brief description of selection criteria:
All technical capacity and its evaluation criteria are specified within the tender documentation.
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
Section IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Open procedure
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
05/04/2019
Local time: 17:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
05/04/2019
Local time: 17:00
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.3) Additional information
NHS Arden and GEM CSU is managing this procurement in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (as amended) (the “Regulations”). The services being procured are Schedule 3 Services and NHS Arden and GEM CSU and the commissioner it represents are bound only by those parts of the Regulations applying to the procurement of these services commonly referred to as the Light Touch Regime (LTR).
Whilst the procurement process is being referred to as an Open Process, Schedule 3 of the regulations provides the commissioner with the flexibility to define its own process as long as it complies with the provisions of Regulations 74-76 (inclusive) of the Regulations.
The commissioner may require that the provider and/or members of its supply chain provide guarantees, bonds or other instruments of appropriate security for the due and proper performance of its or their obligations, in such forms as may be required by the commissioner or otherwise prescribed for any such purpose. Please see published documentation for further details.
The CCG/Commissioner reserves the right not to award the contract in whole or in part and/or to withdraw the procurement at any stage and that it shall not have any liability for any bid costs.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
NHS South Warwickshire CCG
Warwick
UK
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
NHS South Warwickshire CCG
Warwick
UK
VI.4.4) Service from which information about the review procedure may be obtained
NHS South Warwickshire CCG
Warwick
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
06/03/2019