Tender: UK-Huddersfield: health services

UK-Huddersfield: health services

2012/S 19-030981

Contract notice

Services

Directive 2004/18/EC

Section I: Contracting authority

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

  For the attention of: NHS Kirklees
  Broad Lea House, Dyson Wood Way, Bradley
  David Warsop
  HD2 1GZHuddersfield
  UNITED KINGDOM

  Internet address(es):

  General address of the contracting authority: https://yhcpc.bravosolution.co.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

  Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions

• I.3)
  Main activity

  Health

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

  The contracting authority is purchasing on behalf of other contracting authorities: no

Section II: Object of the contract

• II.1)
  Description
• II.1.1)
  Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority:

  Chronic Pain Tier 2 service.

• 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

  Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: Greater Huddersfield Area.

  NUTS code UK

• 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

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

  The new community based Tier 2 chronic pain management service will provide a therapy-based, integrated service that makes a multi-disciplinary, person centred assessment and determines appropriate management according to the impact and severity of pain. The service will be the access point for people with chronic pain who require more support than can be offered in primary care.

  This service will be for patients registered with a GP in the Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group area.

  The Tier 2 chronic pain service will:

  — Provide a model of care outlined in the NHS Kirklees Chronic Pain pathway, as a minimum standard,

  — Provide clinical leadership, supervision and governance, ensuring systems are in place to monitor the quality of clinical practice and meet standards set in line with local and national guidance,

  — Ensure ongoing training and professional development that ensures the service continues to meet the specification, as well as national and local standards,

  — Provide a local service easily accessible by patients with referrals seen within agreed Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Group standard times,

  — Achieve patient focused health outcomes, particularly gaining confidence in use of self management skills or their own health and pain condition,

  — Contribute to improving the pain pathway in the long term, working closely with all stakeholders,

  — Deliver a high quality, value for money service that has sustainable consistent delivery with measurable performance management.

  The service model and specification have been developed with full representation from commissioning partners, with clinical support on a specialist level from pain specialists from acute trusts & NHS Kirklees Clinical Lead.

  The service specification when fully implemented, will achieve a higher standard of care for people with chronic pain, a need identified from Kirklees joint strategic needs assessment and from consultation with service users with chronic pain.

  The model stipulates the procurement of 3 community based chronic pain services based in different locations across the Huddersfield area. These will be bookable through Choose and Book. This will increase access and choice for patients as due to the current setup of the pilot service, community chronic pain services are only available in one area for one session per week.

  This service is being commissioned on behalf of the Greater Huddersfield Clinical Commissioning Executive.

• II.1.6)
  Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  85100000

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

  The contract is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA): yes

• II.1.8)
  Lots

  This contract is divided into lots: no

II.1.9)
Information about variants

• II.2)
  Quantity or scope of the contract
• II.2.1)
  Total quantity or scope:

  This is a voluntary notice for the purpose of advertising this tender. As the procurement falls under Part B of Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, it is only mandatory for the procurement to comply with Regulation 5 (2) accordingly neither the publication nor content of this notice shall be taken to mean that the Contracting Authority intends operating the process in accordance with or to be bound by any of the Regulations other than Regulation 5 (2). Information concerning the process will be contained in the tender documentation.

  Estimated value excluding VAT:

  Range: between 0,00 and 575 000 GBP

II.2.2)
Information about options

II.2.3)
Information about renewals

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

  Duration in months: 36 (from the award of the contract)

Section III: Legal, economic, financial and technical information

• III.1)
  Conditions relating to the contract

III.1.1)
Deposits and guarantees required:

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

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

  Joint and several liability.

III.1.4)
Other particular conditions

• 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: Suppliers instructions how to express interest in this tender:

  1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once):

  — Browse to the eSourcing portal: https://yhcpc.bravosolution.co.uk and click the link to register,

  — Accept the terms and conditions and click “continue”,

  — Enter your correct business and user details,

  — Note the username you chose and click “Save” when complete,

  — You will shortly receive an e-mail with your unique password (please keep this secure).

  2. Express an interest in the tender:

  — Login to the portal with the username/password,

  — Click the “PQQs / ITTs Open To All Suppliers” link (these are pre-qualification questionnaires or invitations to tender open to any registered supplier),

  — Click on the relevant PQQ/ ITT to access the content,

  — Click the “Express Interest” button in the “Actions” box on the left-hand side of the page,

  — This will move the PQQ /ITT into your “My PQQs/ My ITTs” page (this is a secure area reserved for your projects only),

  — You can now access any attachments by clicking the “Settings and Buyer Attachments” in the “Actions” box.

  3. Responding to the tender:

  — You can now choose to “Reply” or “Reject” (please give a reason if rejecting),

  — You can now use the ‘Messages’ function to communicate with the buyer and seek any clarification,

  — Note the deadline for completion, then follow the onscreen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT,

  — There may be a mixture of online & offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available). You must then publish your reply using the publish button in the “Actions” box on the left-hand side of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the online help, or contact the eTendering help desk.

  A PQQ document is required to be completed as part of the expressions of interest and selection to tender process. This document can be found on the Bravo eTendering system (by following the instructions detailed above). This information will be used to limit the number of economic operators selected and invited to tender.

• III.2.2)
  Economic and financial ability

  Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: Information and formalities for evaluating are fully detailed in the PQQ document.

  A PQQ document is required to be completed as part of the expressions of interest and selection to tender process. This document can be found on the Bravo eTendering system (by following the instructions detailed above).

• III.2.3)
  Technical capacity

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

  Information and formalities for evaluating are fully detailed in the PQQ document.

  A PQQ document is required to be completed as part of the expressions of interest and selection to tender process. This document can be found on the Bravo eTendering system (by following the instructions detailed above).

III.2.4)
Information about reserved contracts

• 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: no

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

Section IV: Procedure

• IV.1)
  Type of procedure
• IV.1.1)
  Type of procedure

  Restricted

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

  Envisaged minimum number 5: and maximum number 10

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

• 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: no

• IV.3)
  Administrative information

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

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

  no

• 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

  28.2.2012 - 17:00

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

  26.3.2012

• 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

  in days: 90 (from the date stated for receipt of tender)

IV.3.8)
Conditions for opening tenders

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

  The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

  This is a voluntary notice for the purpose of advertising this tender. As the procurement falls under Part B of Schedule 3 of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006, it is only andatory for the procurement to comply with Regulation 5 (2) accordingly neither the publication nor content of this notice shall be taken to mean that the Contracting Authority intends operating the process in accordance with or to be bound by any of the Regulations other than Regulation 5 (2).

  Information concerning the process will be contained in the tender documentation.

VI.4)
Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)
Body responsible for appeal procedures

VI.4.2)
Lodging of appeals

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

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

  25.1.2012