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

NHS Bath and North East Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group: Swindon Clinical Commissioning Group: Wiltshire County Unitary Authority

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)

Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES) Clinical Commissioning Group, Swindon Clinical Commissioning Group, Wiltshire Clinical Commissioning Group and Wiltshire County Unitary Authority (the Commissioners) would like to invite suitably qualified providers to tender for Integrated Urgent Care Services for the residents and visitors to these areas. This procurement is being carried out by NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCWCSU) on behalf of the Commissioners. The contract value will be circa GBP 13 million to GBP 16 million per annum with an anticipated start date for the contract of April 2018.

This procurement is for a single provider who will be responsible for delivering all of the following services:

BaNES CCG

— GP Out of Hours service

— Integrated Urgent Care Access, Treatment and Clinical Advice Service (clinical hub), including Health Care Professional Line

— NHS 111 Service

Swindon CCG

— Integrated Urgent Care Access, Treatment and Clinical Advice Service (clinical hub), including Health Care Professional Line

— NHS 111 Service

Wiltshire CCG

— Access to Care Service

— Acute Trust Liaison Service

— GP Out of Hours service

— Integrated Urgent Care Access, Treatment and Clinical Advice Service (clinical hub), including Health Care Professional Line

— NHS 111 Service

Wiltshire County Unitary Authority

— Carers Emergency Card Response Service

— Single point of access to intermediate care beds

— Telecare call monitoring

— Telecare equipment and installation

— Telecare response service and urgent care domiciliary care service

— Emergency duty service for adults who may require social care

— Out of hours emergency call handling for Council services

Please note: the services listed above will be procured as a single lot as the Commissioners intention is that a fully integrated solution will be delivered by a single Prime Provider/Consortium.

The procurement is driven by the need to re- procure an improved NHS 111 service and, where indicated, a GP out of hours service and the opportunity this offers the CCG's to meet improved patient outcomes and experience through the delivery of an Integrated Urgent Care Access, Treatment and Clinical Advice Service for urgent and emergency care provision.

The services should be highly responsive and deliver care aligned to the operational and strategic plans of the constituent organisation, whilst minimising disruption and inconvenience for patients and families.

The commissioner may wish to encompass the provision of a range of services in addition to those mentioned.

We have chosen to follow an Open Negotiated Process. An Memorandum of Information can be found at https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home which will provide an outline of the procurement process and the commissioners requirement.

The tendering process elates to the provision of a health, social or related service as listed within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (‘the Regulations’). The procurement of services listed in Schedule 3 of the Regulations is not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the Light Touch Regime contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77). Neither the inclusion of a Bidder selection stage, nor the use of any defined terms from the Regulations, nor the description of the procedure voluntarily adopted by The Commissioners (Open, Restricted, Competitive Procedure with Negotiation, Competitive Dialogue or any other description), nor any other indication, shall be taken to mean that The Commissioners intends to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to services coming within the scope of Schedule 3.

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.1)

Conditions Relating to the Contract

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required

Parent company and other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances, see the invitation to tender for further details.

III.1.2)

Main Terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the relevant provisions

III.1.3)

Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded

Joint and severable liability.

III.1.4)

Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject

III.2)

Conditions for Participation

III.2.1)

Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

As stated within the tender documentation.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

The contract is restricted to sheltered workshops
The execution of the contract is restricted to the framework of sheltered employment programmes

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

Please see tender documentation.

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

SCW/NHS99NCCG/00000276/2016

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

The Services are healthcare services within the meaning and scope of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No.2) Regulations 2013 and are therefore not governed by the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. The tendering process elates to the provision of a health, social or related service as listed within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (‘the Regulations’). The procurement of services listed in Schedule 3 of the Regulations is not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the Light Touch Regime contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77). Neither the inclusion of a Bidder selection stage, nor the use of any defined terms from the Regulations, nor the description of the procedure voluntarily adopted by The Commissioners (Open, Restricted, Competitive Procedure with Negotiation, Competitive Dialogue or any other description), nor any other indication, shall be taken to mean that The Commissioners intends to hold itself bound by any of the Regulations, save those applicable to services coming within the scope of Schedule 3.

To receive more information about this tender, including any amendments and/or clarifications and to request any clarifications and/or to respond to this tender, you must register your interest to this tender on the following site: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/scwcsu/aspx/Home. Once you have successfully registered your expression of interest you will be issued with the procurement documentation.

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:

The Contracting Authority intends to voluntarily observe the award decision notices provisions and 10 day standstill period described in the Public Contracts Regulations 2015. Unsuccessful tenderers and applicants will receive scores and reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the tenderer/application was unsuccessful. Deadline for lodging of appeals should be in accordance with the Regulations.

VI.4.3)

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

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice