Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Department of Health and Social Care
39 Victoria Street
London
SW1H 0EU
UK
Telephone: +44 2072104850
E-mail: Toby.Fogg@dhsc.gov.uk
NUTS: UK
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-of-health-and-social-care/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
Health
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Driving Innovative Models of Care Through Effective Commissioning
II.1.2) Main CPV code
98112000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
In partnership with Shared Lives Plus and Think Local, Act Personal (TLAP), SCIE will finalise and identify the launch of 4 innovation demonstrator sites in 2019/20 to scale innovative models of care within their local areas through effective commissioning.
This will work in tandem with the existing innovation network and advisory group that SCIE have set up in 2019/20.
As part of this work programme, innovation demonstrator sites must hold a focus on initiatives to develop people powered results and other design-led approaches, the co-production approach, the asset-based area approach, intergenerational care and trial new outcomes-based payment mechanisms and integrator models.
SCIE will work closely with each area to work on models that are both innovative, credible and designed to deliver the best results for each local authority.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
124 400.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UK
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
In 2018-19 DHSC commissioned SCIE to begin work on setting up and developing a innovation network of local authorities, providers and service users who were open to working in innovative ways. DHSC knew there were sporadic examples of innovative care in the work carried out by local authorities, but we want to better understand the barriers to scaling up innovation across the social care system and across geographies.
The first stage of this work has been a success with over 500 organisations and individuals signed up to the programme.
The innovation network involves 16 local authorities, 19 providers and 14 national bodies has been set up along with an advisory group.
The network has held two large scale workshops with over 140 people attending, including service users, to discuss the opportunities and barriers to commissioning and supporting the scaling up of innovative care approaches. This has helped policy officials at DHSC better understand the challenges faced by those on the ‘shop floor’ of commissioning.
For phase two of this work SCIE have identified four LA’s to take forward the commissioning of innovative approaches to care and support, this could include new asset-based commissioning methods, intergenerational care or testing out how to commission innovative models at scale.
The overarching ambition and purpose will be to continue the work of the network to find and adopt ways of tackling the barriers that hinder the growth and spread of innovation. SCIE will do this by:
• Building on the momentum of the network, creating a national narrative and growing movement committed to developing innovative models of care at scale.
• Testing practical ways to support the scaling of innovation; we will work with local areas, providers and interested citizens to test out how we make progress in relation to scaling innovation on the four themes.
• Building flexibility within the core offer and overall resources so we can remain agile and adapt to challenges and issues as they arise.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price
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 IV: Procedure
IV.1) Description
IV.1.1) Type of procedure
Award of a contract without prior publication of a call for competition
Justification for selected award procedure:
The works, supplies or services can be provided only by a particular economic operator for the following reason: absence of competition for technical reasons
Explanation
The award of contracts by public authorities is governed by the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (‘PCR’) and in general contracts must be advertised and awarded after open competition of some kind. In principle the proposed contract would ordinarily be subject to these advertising/competition requirements, however, Regulation 32 of the PCR details in which a contract can be directly awarded to an organisation without putting that contract out to tender.
DHSC has grounds under r.32 to award the contract to SCIE without a call for competition on the basis of:
(ii) competition is absent for technical reasons;
(iii) the protection of exclusive rights, including intellectual property rights.
Phase 2 of the project is, effectively a continuation of phase 1 using the same sites and following the same methodology as phase 1 to conclude the research envisaged and proposed under the project brief as a whole’. It is not considered realistic that another entity could step in to SCIE’s position or provide an alternate service based on these facts.
Phase 2 is dependent upon the methodology developed by SCIE which is protected by copyright and/or information confidentiality provisions and the results of the Phase 1 stage of the project.
IV.1.8) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)
The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement:
Yes
Section V: Award of contract
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
21/10/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 1
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Social Care Institute for Excellence
London
UK
NUTS: UK
The contractor is an SME:
No
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 124 400.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
The High Court
London
WC2A 2LL
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
16/03/2020