Contract award notice
Results of the procurement procedure
Section I: Contracting
entity
I.1) Name and addresses
Liverpool John Moores University
Exchange Station, Tithebarne St
Liverpool
L2 2QP
UK
Contact person: Kathryn Houghton
E-mail: k.l.houghton@ljmu.ac.uk
NUTS: UKD72
Internet address(es)
Main address: www.ljmu.ac.uk
Address of the buyer profile: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/ljmu
I.4) Type of the contracting authority
Other: Higher Education
I.5) Main activity
Education
Section II: Object
II.1) Scope of the procurement
II.1.1) Title
Agreement for Occupational Health Physician Services
Reference number: LJMU 1817
II.1.2) Main CPV code
85120000
II.1.3) Type of contract
Services
II.1.4) Short description
This is now an awarded contract
The University is seeking the services of a provider who is able to supply a minimum of an AFOM qualified occupational physician, who has experience of working with organisations with a similar business profile to LJMU. The contract period is for an initial period of 3 years, with the option to extend for one further year.
This procurement is under the light touch regime procedure.
II.1.6) Information about lots
This contract is divided into lots:
No
II.1.7) Total value of the procurement
Value excluding VAT:
285 000.00
GBP
II.2) Description
II.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)
85121200
II.2.3) Place of performance
NUTS code:
UKD72
Main site or place of performance:
Liverpool City Centre.
II.2.4) Description of the procurement
The key areas of the service to be provided are:
— assessment of disability and fitness for work, fitness to attend internal processes, including Hearings etc., fitness for training and for study,
— the occupational physician will provide independent, objective, and where possible evidence based advice to management and staff, please refer to Appendix A – Specification and KPIs – for full details of the services required under this contract,
— Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) has approximately 2 500 staff and approximately 25 000 students at present. Of these approximately 3 500 students are enrolled on regulated training courses. In broad terms, the effective population served by the Occupational Health Unit is 6 000,
— screening and assessment services for healthcare, teaching, social care, microbiological and pharmacy undergraduates’ accounts for approximately 70 % of the occupational health unit’s workload,
— service’s for staff focus predominantly on absence management and, more recently, we have seen an increase in the requirement for the assessment of staff presenting with mental health problems in the workplace,
— LJMU Occupational Health records are held within a single well-organised secure and bespoke database, which was implemented in 2017,
— the unit is a nurse led, year round service, with administrative support. There is currently x1 senior occupational health nurse and 2 additional nurses. The unit operates from Liverpool city centre and the unit’s facilities are modern and well-appointed and have recently undergone some minor refurbishment works. Nursing and administrative support will all be provided by the University,
— the quality assurance programme in the occupational health unit is operational and all staff work to the safe, effective, quality, and occupational health service (SEQOHS) standards developed by the faculty of occupational medicine.
II.2.5) Award criteria
Price
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
Please register on Intend — the link is included in this contract notice. All documents can be accessed once you have registered on Intend and ‘opted in’.
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.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure
Notice number in the OJ S:
2019/S 107-261389
Section V: Award of contract
Contract No: LJMU 1817
Title: Agreement for Occupational Health Physician Services
A contract/lot is awarded:
Yes
V.2 Award of contract
V.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract
28/08/2019
V.2.2) Information about tenders
Number of tenders received: 3
Number of tenders received from SMEs: 3
Number of tenders received from tenderers from EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received from tenderers from non-EU Member States: 0
Number of tenders received by electronic means: 3
The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators:
No
V.2.3) Name and address of the contractor
Gel Ltd Trading as Healthwork
14-16 St John Street
Manchester
M3 4EA
UK
Telephone: +44 1618319701
E-mail: sales@healthworkltd.com
NUTS: UKD72
Internet address(es)
URL: www.healthworkltd.com
The contractor is an SME:
Yes
V.2.4) Information on value of the contract/lot (excluding VAT)
Total value of the contract/lot:
: 285 000.00
GBP
V.2.5) Information about subcontracting
Section VI: Complementary information
VI.3) Additional information
This contract has now been awarded. The value of the contract has been detailed for 3 years. We do have an optional extension period of 1 year, this is additional to the 285 000 GBP detailed
The NUTS code has also been detailed as Liverpool, as this company also have offices in Liverpool, but will be working from the LJMU site
VI.4) Procedures for review
VI.4.1) Review body
VI.4.2) Body responsible for mediation procedures
VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice
28/08/2019