CONTRACT NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

North of England Commissioning Support, for and on behalf of NHS Sunderland Clinical Commissioning Group, are undertaking a procurement for the provision of community and intermediate musculoskeletal services in Sunderland.

The Open Procedure is a single stage process which includes assessment of Bidders capacity and capability and ability to deliver against the service specification.

The Tender Submission Deadline for this procurement is 12:00 noon on 16.12.2014. Any bids received after this deadline may not be considered in the evaluation of bid responses.

The tender documentation can be found by accessing the NECS eTendering Portal at: — https://in-tendhost.co.uk/necs/aspx/Home

Providers must register on the site, which is free and takes very little time to do so. To access the document, please select Tenders from the main menu at the top of the page, and then select Current to access a list of current procurements being undertaken by NECS. Please select this procurement from the list and express an interest to gain access to the relevant documents and questionnaires. User Guides are available together with a dedicated In-Tend help-line to guide bidders through the process.

Please ensure you read the Invitation to Tender Instructions and the relevant Service Specific documentation, which can be found in the Document Set of the ITT page for this project.

The Capability and Capacity Assessment Questionnaire and the Technical Response Questionnaire can also be found on the ITT tab/page of the Tender page within the In-Tend eTendering Portal. Both of these questionnaires must be completed in order to submit a tender response.

The Financial Model Template (FMT), Declaration, Form of Offer and Conflict of Interest Document(s) must be downloaded from the attachment area of the ITT. Once complete, please upload these documents at the relevant Placeholder on the ITT tab/page of the Tender page within the In-Tend eTendering Portal. Where specifically requested within a question, those attachments should also be uploaded at the relevant Placeholder on the ITT tab/page of the Tender page within the In-Tend eTendering Portal.

Unless stated otherwise, all communications from the NECS during the period of this procurement shall be submitted via the on-line correspondence facility provided on the NECS portal (see Correspondence section). The onus is on the applicant to read and keep up to date with all the information published in relation to this requirement.

Under the Public Services (Social Value) Act 2012, NHS England must consider how procuring this service might improve the economic, social and environmental well-being of the Hull and East Riding area, and how in conducting the process of procurement, it might act with a view to securing the improvement.

Please note this is a sealed tender exercise and NECS cannot view any sensitive information until the tender has closed. It will not be possible to submit a response after the deadline and NECS reserve the right not to award a contract to any tenderer under any tendering process.

A Bidder Information Event will be held from 10:00 till 12:00 noon on Friday 7.11.2014 at NHS Sunderland CCG, Pemberton House, Colima Avenue, Sunderland, SR5 3XB. This event will include a summary of the service requirement and an overview of the eTendering system/process. Interested bidders must send a message via the NECS eTending Portal to confirm their intention to attend and the names of no more than two representatives from their respective organisation(s). All questions regarding the process must be submitted via the messaging facility within the NECS eTendering Portal.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts

II.3)

Duration of the contract or limit for completion

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.3)

Conditions Specific to Service Contracts

III.3.1)

Is provision of the service reserved to a specific profession?

III.3.2)

Will legal entities be required to state the names and professional qualifications of the personnel responsible for the execution of the service?

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

NECS040

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

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

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

VI.3)

Additional Information

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

VI.4.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice