Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

• I.1) Name, addresses and contact point(s)

  For the attention of: Mrs Claire Dawson
  Norfolk County Council
  Room 701, County Hall, Martineau Lane
  Norwich
  NR1 2DH
  UNITED KINGDOM
  Email: sourcingteam@norfolk.gov.uk
  Tel: +44 1603223495

  Internet address(es):

  General address of the contracting authority: www.norfolk.gov.uk

  Further information can be obtained from:

  The above mentioned contact point(s)

  Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained from:

  The above mentioned contact point(s)

  Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to:

  The above mentioned contact point(s)

• I.2) Type of the contracting authority

  Regional or local authority

• I.3) Main activity

  General public services

• I.4) Contract award on behalf of other contracting authorities

  The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: yes
  

  NHS Norfolk and Waveney
  Lakeside 400, Old Chapel Way
  Norwich
  NR7 0WG
  UNITED KINGDOM

Section II: Object of the contract

• II.1) Description

  • II.1.1) Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

    NCCT40059a Domiciliary Care - Application to Select List.

  • II.1.2) Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance

    Services

    Service category No 25: Health and social services

    NUTS code UKH13

  • II.1.3) Information about a public contract, a framework agreement or a dynamic purchasing system (DPS)

    The notice involves a public contract

  • II.1.4) Information on framework agreement

    Not provided

  • II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

    Norfolk County Council requires organisations to provide domiciliary care services to eligible service users within Norfolk.

    The Council invites interested provider organisations to apply to join a select list. The Council will conduct a series of further procurement exercises involving organisations on the list. The nature of those exercises may vary by client group and/or geographical area. The Council reserves the right to re-open the list to bring in more providers, or to conduct separate procurements outside of the list.

  • II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

    85000000, 85310000, 85300000, 85311100, 85311200, 85311300, 85312000, 85312400, 85312500, 85320000

  • II.1.7) Information about Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

    The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): no

  • II.1.8) Lots

    This contract is divided into lots: no

  • II.1.9) Information about variants

    Variants will be accepted: no

• II.2) Quantity or scope of the contract

  • II.2.1) Total quantity or scope:

    Due to the expansion of the Homecare market in Norfolk and Norfolk County Council's move to personalised budgets, the range stated in II.2.1 below covers not only the current market value of block and spot contracting for Homecare in Norfolk, but also the anticipated increase in demand over the next few years. Contracts under this select list will cover the entire county and are to be split between a range of spot contracts and block contracting arrangements, which may be let for periods of 4 to 8 years.

    Estimated value excluding VAT:

    Range: between 100 000 000,00 and 250 000 000,00 GBP

  • II.2.2) Information about options

    Options: no

  • II.2.3) Information about renewals

    This contract is subject to renewal: no

• II.3) Duration of the contract or time limit for completion

  Not provided

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

• III.1) Conditions relating to the contract

  • III.1.1) Deposits and guarantees required:

    Please refer to the application document.

  • III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions governing them:

    Please refer to the application document.

  • III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

    Please refer to the application document.

  • III.1.4) Other particular conditions

    The performance of the contract is subject to particular conditions: no

• III.2) Conditions for participation

  • III.2.1) Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers

    Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Please refer to the application document.

  • III.2.2) Economic and financial ability

    Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Please refer to the application document.

  • III.2.3) Technical capacity

    Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met:

    Please refer to the application document.

  • III.2.4) Information about reserved contracts

    Not provided

• III.3) Conditions specific to services contracts

  • III.3.1) Information about a particular profession

    Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession: yes

    Reference to the relevant law, regulation or administrative provision: Providers will need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission.

  • III.3.2) Staff responsible for the execution of the service

    Legal persons should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service: no

Section IV: Procedure

• IV.1) Type of procedure

  • IV.1.1) Type of procedure

    Open

  • IV.1.2) Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

    Not provided

  • IV.1.3) Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

    Not provided

• IV.2) Award criteria

  • IV.2.1) Award criteria

    The most economically advantageous tender in terms of the criteria stated in the specifications, in the invitation to tender or to negotiate or in the descriptive document

  • IV.2.2) Information about electronic auction

    An electronic auction will be used: yes

    Additional information about electronic auction: The Council reserves the right to use electronic auctions in individual procurement exercises conducted using the select list.

• IV.3) Administrative information

  • IV.3.1) File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:

    NCCT40059a

  • IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

    Notice on a buyer profile

    Notice number in the OJEU: 2012/S 032-051994 of 16.2.2012

  • IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document

    Payable documents: no

  • IV.3.4) Time limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

    18.10.2012 - 14:00

  • IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

    Not provided

  • IV.3.6) Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up

    English.

  • IV.3.7) Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender

    Not provided

  • IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders

    Date: 18.10.2012 - 14:00

    Place:

    County Hall, Martineau lane, Norwich, Norfolk UK.

    Persons authorised to be present at the opening of tenders: no

Section VI: Complementary information

• VI.1) Information about recurrence

  This is a recurrent procurement: no

• VI.2) Information about European Union funds

  The contract is related to a project and/or programme financed by European Union funds: no

• VI.3) Additional information

  * This is a procurement for services specified in Part B of Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (“Part B services”). Accordingly, and notwithstanding the advertising of this procurement exercise in the Official Journal, the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) only apply in part. The procurement exercise will be conducted in accordance with the information contained in the application documents.

  * The Authority has voluntarily advertised this procurement exercise in the Official Journal, in order to reach as wide an audience as possible. The Authority has been constrained by the forms used by the Publications Office to describe the procurement procedure as “Open”. Admission to the list will be a single-stage procurement process, but the authority does not bind itself to conduct the procurement process in accordance with the Open Procedure, as described in the Regulations, nor to abide by any other part of the Regulations which does not expressly apply to procurements for Part B services.

  * NHS bodies in Norfolk will be able to use the list if they so wish, on a procurement-by-procurement basis.

• VI.4) Procedures for appeal

  • VI.4.1) Body responsible for appeal procedures

    See VI 4.2

  • VI.4.2) Lodging of appeals

    Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: Norfolk County Council will incorporate a voluntary standstill period at the point information on the proposed membership of the list is communicated to Applicants. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful Applicants to challenge the award decision before the first procurement exercise under the list is entered into.

    Aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the Council's obligations can take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

  • VI.4.3) Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

    See VI.4.2

• VI.5) Date of dispatch of this notice:

  10.9.2012