Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group
Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group, Number 2, Staffordshire Place, Stafford ST16 2LP
Stafford
UK
E-mail: Elizabeth.johnson1@nhs.net
NUTS: UKG24
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.cannockchaseccg.nhs.uk/
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group
Number 2 Staffordshire Place, Stafford ST16 2LP
Stafford
UK
E-mail: elizabeth.johnson1@nhs.net
NUTS: UKG24
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.cannockchaseccg.nhs.uk/
I.2) Joint procurement
The contract involves joint procurement
I.3) Communication
The procurement documents are available for unrestricted and full direct access, free of charge at:
https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/
Additional information can be obtained from the abovementioned address
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent electronically to:
https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/
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
Cannock Minor Injuries Unit
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85100000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
The Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group are seeking applications from suitably qualified and experienced providers to urgently deliver a minor injuries unit at Cannock Hospital. The minor injuries unit was closed in March 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and there is a need to ensure that services are reinstated as soon as possible.
The contract will run for 12 months from the service start date which is estimated to be no later than 14th September 2022, with an option to extend for up to a further 12 months. The successful bidder shall be required to mobilise and commence service delivery within a maximum of six weeks from contract award estimated around 18th July 2022.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKG24
Main site or place of performance:
Cannock, Staffordshire
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group are seeking applications from suitably qualified and experienced providers to urgently deliver a minor injuries unit at Cannock Hospital. The minor injuries unit was closed in February 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and there is a need to ensure that services are reinstated as soon as possible.
The service will:
• Ensure patients have a positive experience of care.
• Improve accessibility and flexibility for patients, ensuring care is built around the patients not the services.
• Ensure that patients are effectively prioritised, directed and seen by the right clinician and receive the right treatment ensuring that health needs are met in the most appropriate setting. This will include signposting to appropriate alternative services, including minor eye care services, ensuring patients are not re-directed inappropriately to emergency care settings for the management of minor injuries.
• Provide consistent clinical assessment of a patients needs at the first point of contact.
• In collaboration with other Providers, patients receive a seamless and integrated urgent care response by the MIU that is appropriate to clinical need and supported by care pathways across organisational boundaries.
• Promote and support a provision of patient/carer education relating to self-care post visit.
The contract will run for 12 months from the service start date which is estimated to be no later than 14th September 2022, with an option to extend for up to a further 12 months. The successful bidder shall be required to mobilise and commence service delivery within a maximum of six weeks from contract award which is estimated around 18th July 2022. The service shall be required to operate from the Cannock Hospital site. Further details of the available facilities shall be made to all bidders via the MLCSU Bravo portal as soon as they are confirmed.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Start:
14/09/2022
End:
13/09/2024
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
II.2.14) Additional information
Contract Duration is for 12 months with an optional further extension of up to 12 months.
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:
No
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
20/06/2022
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
20/06/2022
Local time: 12:00
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.3) Additional information
Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise on behalf of Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body.
This procurement is for Social and other specific services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations ('Regulations') http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made. Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made
The Contracting Authority is not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the Contracting Authority is following is set out in the procurement documents.
As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.
Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.
The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.
All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these.
Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.
In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.
Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
NHS Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group
Stafford
UK
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
NHS Cannock Chase Clinical Commissioning Group
Stafford
UK
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
26/05/2022