Contract notice
Section I: Contracting
authority
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Heron House, 120 Grove Road
Stoke on Trent
ST4 4LX
UK
Telephone: +44 1772214209
E-mail: mlcsu.tendersnorth@nhs.net
NUTS: UKD7
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk
I.1) Name and addresses
NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group
Southport
PR8 6PL
UK
E-mail: mlcsu.tendersnorth@nhs.net
NUTS: UKD7
Internet address(es)
Main address: https://www.southportandformbyccg.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
Southport and Formby CCG Community Services
Reference number: M-20-07
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85140000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group (S&FCCG) is made up of local doctors, nurses, and practice staff, who are well placed to know the health needs and views of people living in the area. S&FCCG envisage appropriate, co-ordinated care for patients via integrated services and responsiveness to patients’ needs, while ensuring the best possible use of resources, avoiding fragmentation of services and reducing the complexity of the patient journey.
II.1.5) Estimated total value
Value excluding VAT:
101 500 000.00
GBP
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.2) Description
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKD73
Main site or place of performance:
Area covered by the population of Southport and Formby, covering an area stretching from Ince Blundell in the south to Churchtown in the north.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group brings together 19 doctors' surgeries covering an area stretching from Ince Blundell in the south to Churchtown in the north with a population size of 125 000.
SFCCG know from speaking to local people that they really value the care they receive from GP practices and community services, provided close to where they live. SFCCG believe there are great benefits in wrapping services around their local communities in an integrated way to really focus on their health needs. SFCCG see a variety of professionals from across health and social care playing a greater role in these locality multidisciplinary teams. SFCCG believe this model is capable of making improvements in all the priority areas they have set out in their 5-year strategy: ‘Sefton2gether – Shaping Sefton II’ and their blueprint for transforming services, benefiting all Southport and Formby residents, no matter what their age or differing health needs.
Southport and Formby CCG envisage appropriate, co-ordinated care for patients via integrated services and responsiveness to patients’ needs, while ensuring the best possible use of resources, avoiding fragmentation of services and reducing the complexity of the patient journey.
Southport and Formby CCG's vision aims to create a sustainable healthy community based on health needs, with partners; focused on delivering high quality and integrated care services to all, to improve the health and well-being of their population.
The initial contract is envisaged to be for 5 years with the option to extend for 1 x 24-month periods.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price is not the only award criterion and all criteria are stated only in the procurement documents
II.2.6) Estimated value
Value excluding VAT:
101 500 000.00
GBP
II.2.7) Duration of the contract, framework agreement or dynamic purchasing system
Duration in months: 84
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
Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information
III.1) Conditions for participation
III.1.2) Economic and financial standing
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.1.3) Technical and professional ability
Selection criteria as stated in the procurement documents
III.2) Conditions related to the contract
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:
Yes
IV.2) Administrative information
IV.2.2) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate
Date:
30/10/2020
Local time: 12:00
IV.2.4) Languages in which tenders or requests to participate may be submitted
EN
IV.2.6) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender
Tender must be valid until:
01/07/2021
IV.2.7) Conditions for opening of tenders
Date:
30/10/2020
Local time: 12:01
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.1) Information about recurrence
This is a recurrent procurement:
No
VI.3) Additional information
This procurement is for clinical 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’). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7.
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 with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services.
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
NHS Southport and Formby Clinical Commissioning Group
Southport
PR8 6PL
UK
Internet address(es)
URL: https://www.southportandformbyccg.nhs.uk/
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
30/09/2020