CONTRACT NOTICE – NATIONAL

1 Authority Details

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Authority Name and Address

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Address from which documentation may be obtained

As in 1.1

1.3

Completed documents must be returned to:

As in 1.1

2 Contract Details

2.1

Title

Consultancy Services and Advisor for the UHW Redevelopment Programme

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Description of the goods or services required

The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board who are seeking to establish an eight week contract for a strategic partner who will work with the UHB to develop a programme business case for the replacement of UHW.

The Health Board is developing proposals for the redevelopment/re-provision of UHW in response to the facilities becoming increasingly overcrowded and unfit for current and future health care requirements. As the health board is a teaching and tertiary centre, with a strong research and innovation sector, by working with Cardiff University and other academic partners, there is an opportunity to develop a replacement hospital as part of a health/life science campus in order to capitalise on the significant economic opportunity this would generate for the south Wales region in what is an underdeveloped market and an emerging priority for the Cardiff City Region Deal. Since UHW was built in the 1970s, it has been added to and adapted to reflect the changing needs of health care, but our assessment is that the ability to continue to adapt the infrastructure is extremely limited.

Replacing the hospital will not be on a like for like basis. Back in 2015, we set out strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, which signalled a shift to more upstream preventative services, working collaboratively with public sector partners, delivery of more care and support as close to home as possible, meanwhile centralising highly complex surgery and emergency care services – both for our local population and for our regional population in respect of tertiary services. We are half way through our journey of transformation, and have set out a clinical services plan which articulates the further changes we envisage making during the second half of the strategy’s lifetime, reflecting new technologies and approaches to treatment and care. This emerging clinical model will continue to evolve as the speed at which health care is changing is accelerating. The replacement for UHW will reflect this clinical service model, and will need to be designed with high levels of adaptability, recognising that during the course of its life time, the facility will need to adapt to several significant revolutions in health care, and responding to potentially significant surges in demand, learning the lessons of the current global pandemic.

The development of the business case for the replacement of UHW, and the supporting business cases needed to facilitate the development of services in the community and other parts of the system to support the new model for clinical services, will be a complex programme that will need to encompass four elements;

- the hospital re-provision,

- the development of the health science campus,

- the development of the whole system model of care (and subsequent business cases),

- the development of the economic offer to the City Region Deal Region that such a development would bring.

Bidders should note that an interview will be part of the evaluation process and bidders should be available the week commencing the 8th June 2020.

NOTE: The authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=101799

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Notice Coding and Classification

2.4

Total quantity or scope of tender

The contract will run for eight weeks (8) with an option to extend at the Health Board’s sole discretion for up to a further four weeks.

3 Conditions for Participation

3.1

Minimum standards and qualification required

As set out in the tender documents.

4 Administrative Information

4.1

Type of Procedure

Single stage

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Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

CAV-ITT-PROJECT44718

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Time Limits

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

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Tender Submission Postbox

5 Other Information

5.1

Additional Information

Please note additional information on this procurement:

1. The Contracting Authority reserves the right to award the contract in whole, in part or annul the tendering process and not award any contract.

2. Bidders should note that they will be required to enter into terms and conditions of contract as set out in the ITT and that save for matters of clarification or consistency the Contracting Authority will not negotiate the terms.

3. The Contracting Authority will not accept completed ITT's after the stated closing date.

4. All documents to be priced (where applicable) in sterling and all payments made in sterling.

5. All tender costs and liabilities incurred by bidders shall be the sole responsibility of the bidders.

6. Bidders wishing to participate should visit the Bravo e-tenderwales portal and access the ITT, reference itt_44718.

7. Prospective suppliers should note that NHS Shared Services Partnership - Procurement Services is acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale ULHB

(WA Ref:101799)

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Additional Documentation

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Publication date of this notice