Tender: UK-Ipswich: social work services
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UK-Ipswich: social work services
2010/S 33-047845
CONTRACT NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
- I.1)NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):
Suffolk County Council, Sourcing, Procurement & Contract Management, Endeavour House, 8 Russell Road, Attn: Dawn Richardson, Ipswich IP1 2BX, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1473260728. E-mail: dawn.richardson@suffolk.gov.uk. Fax +44 1473216915.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.suffolkcc.gov.uk.
Further information can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Specifications and additional documents (including documents for competitive dialogue and a dynamic purchasing system) can be obtained at: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
Tenders or requests to participate must be sent to: As in above-mentioned contact point(s).
- I.2)TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Regional or local authority.
General public services.
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:
Residential short break services for children with additional needs/disabilities.
- II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:
Services.
Service category: No 25.
Main place of performance: Suffolk, England.
NUTS code: UKH14.
- II.1.3)The notice involves:
A public contract.
- II.1.5)Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
A person-centred specialist therapeutic residential short break service in a Suffolk County Council owned property located within the town of Stowmarket. The service will be for children and young people (aged 7 - 18) with complex Autism, challenging behaviours and severe learning disabilities with associated physical disabilities, identified as needing the service by Suffolk County Council and/or Suffolk PCT. and will provide short breaks away from home that provide opportunities for:
1.1. Individual personal development including independence skills and maintenance of existing skills.
1.2. new experiences
1.3. access to social, leisure and sporting activities in the local community.
Registered with Ofsted, the service will meet the relevant National Minimum Standards for Children’s Homes and in particular those standards that apply to children with disabilities. This will apply particularly to the accommodation that shall be designed and equipped to meet the needs of children with additional needs including physical disabilities.
Accommodation, the provision of personal care and the provision of meals and will be delivered in accordance with the principles of Access, Inclusion and Participation and the five Every Child Matters outcomes.
Provided in accordance with each child or young persons' Individual Care Plan (ICP), the service willl follow a person-centre appraoch supporting children and young people.
The service provider will be expected to enter into a lease agreement with Suffolk County Council.
A three year contract with the option to extend for a further two years.
- II.1.6)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
85310000, 85311300, 85311200, 85311000.
- II.1.7)Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
- II.1.8)Division into lots:
No.
- II.1.9)Variants will be accepted:
No.
- II.2)QUANTITY OR SCOPE OF THE CONTRACT
- II.2.1)Total quantity or scope:
Estimated value excluding VAT:
Range: between 220 000 and 275 000 GBP.
- II.2.2)Options:
No.
- II.3)DURATION OF THE CONTRACT OR TIME-LIMIT FOR COMPLETION:
Duration in months: 36 (from the award of the contract).
II.1.4)Information on framework agreement:
SECTION III: LEGAL, ECONOMIC, FINANCIAL AND TECHNICAL INFORMATION
- III.1)CONDITIONS RELATING TO THE CONTRACT
- 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 to which the performance of the contract is subject:
No.
- III.2)CONDITIONS FOR PARTICIPATION
- III.2.3)Technical capacity:
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met:
We have recent (within the last five years), relevant experience of delivering services to children in a residential setting and of CSCI/OFSTED registration.
We have experience of working with children and young people with challenging behaviours and/or physical disabilities in accordance with relevant current legislation.
We have experience of working in partnership, with stakeholders, to deliver services.
We have experience of working with customers who participate and are involved in service design and delivery.
- III.2.4)Reserved contracts:
No.
- III.3)CONDITIONS SPECIFIC TO SERVICES CONTRACTS
- III.3.1)Execution of the service is reserved to a particular profession:
No.
- III.3.2)Legal entities should indicate the names and professional qualifications of the staff responsible for the execution of the service:
No.
III.1.1)Deposits and guarantees required:
III.1.2)Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:
III.2.1)Personal situation of economic operators, including requirements relating to enrolment on professional or trade registers:
III.2.2)Economic and financial capacity:
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 number of operators 5
Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates: A pre qualification questionnaire will be sent to those who express an interest and these completed forms must be returned to Suffolk County Council no later than 15:00 hrs on 18.3.2010.
Based on the scores obtained, we will shortlist applications to a minimum of five suitably qualified and experienced providers.
- 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)An electronic auction will be used:
No.
- IV.3)ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
- IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
CD0442 Residential Short break services for children and young people with additional needs/disability.
- 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:
18.3.2010 - 15:00.
- IV.3.5)Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates:
24.3.2010.
- IV.3.6)Language(s) in which tenders or requests to participate may be drawn up:
English.
IV.1.3)Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue:
IV.3.7)Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender:
IV.3.8)Conditions for opening tenders:
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
- VI.1)THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT:
Yes.
Estimated timing for further notices to be published: 2013.
- VI.2)CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU FUNDS:
No.
- VI.3)ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Expressions of interest including completed Pre Qualification Questionnaires must be submitted and received by Suffolk County Council no later than 15:00 HRS on Thursday 18 March 2010.
We intend to issue the invitations to tender to those candidates selected to participate on Wednesday, 24.3.2010.
Please note that this is a voluntary OJEU notice for a Part B Concession contract. Therefore the full OJEU timescales for a restricted procedure have not been used. The local market have been notified direct of this tender advert.
Local Government Review in Suffolk.
The Minister for Local Government has recently announced that she is inviting Suffolk councils’ to establish a constitutional convention and working with Members of Parliament and other stakeholders, to reach a consensus on a unitary pattern of government for Suffolk.
If a new unitary authority or unitary authorities are established as a result of the review, the successful tenderer will be required to co-operate with Suffolk County Council and its successor(s) to ensure that the contract arising from this procurement is dealt with in the most appropriate way.
The contract may be transferred to (and, if appropriate, divided between) the new unitary authority/ies and/or fire authority/ies. Alternatively, one of the new bodies may act as central purchasing authority on behalf of the other(s).
Such arrangements may take place by Statutory Order but the County Council also intends to make contractual provision permitting such arrangements to occur.
Heads of terms for the lease agreement will be issued with the invitation to tender.
Please note that this contract is for an initial period of three years with an option to extend for a further two years.
- VI.4)PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL
- VI.4.2)Lodging of appeals:
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals: Suffolk County Council incorporates a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period from the point at which information on the award of contract is communicated to the tenderers. This period allows unsuccessful tenderers to seek further debriefing from the contracting authority before the contract is entered into.
If an appeal regarding the award of contract has not been successfully resolved: The Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (SI 2006 No5) as amended, provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or at risk of harm by a breach of the rules, to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland). Any such action must be brought promptly.
- VI.5)DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:
12.2.2010.
VI.4.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
VI.4.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
