Contract award: UK-Leeds: research and development services and related consultancy services
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UK-Leeds: research and development services and related consultancy services
2010/S 45-066104
CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE
Services
SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY
- I.1)NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S):
Department of Health - Social Care; Local Government & Care Partnerships Directorate, Room 3N15 Quarry House Quarry Hill, Attn: Lee Fisher, Leeds LS2 7UE, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. +44 1132546882. E-mail: lee.fisher@dh.gsi.gov.uk.
Internet address(es):
General address of the contracting authority: www.dh.gov.uk.
Address of the buyer profile: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/Procurementandproposals/index.htm.
- I.2)TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES:
Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions.
Health.
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:
Common assessment framework for adults demonstrator site programme - national evaluation.
- II.1.2)Type of contract and location of works, place of delivery or of performance:
Services.
Service category No 8.
Main site or location of works, place of delivery or of performance: England.
NUTS code UK.
- II.1.3)The notice involves:
Contract(s) based on a dynamic purchasing system (DPS).
- II.1.4)Short description of the contract or purchase(s):
The national evaluation team will collate data and information supplied by each demonstrator site and will, where practical and most effective, apply and undertake evaluated research across all the CAF partnerships. The team will:
— Work with the expert adviser to bring sites together to support and accelerate their learning,
— Work closely with the initial nine CAF Demonstrator sites and additional sites expected to begin work in January 2010,
— Manage data aggregation and reporting at the whole programme level based on data and information from the demonstrator sites,
— Report to the project board on progress,
— Prepare material for transmission to interested stakeholders not involved in the programme,
— Analyse the data and produce a final report which assesses the evidence from the demonstrator sites about the effectiveness, including cost-effectiveness, of a common assessment framework for adults,
— Give one or more presentations to DH and other interested stakeholders on the findings of the demonstrator sites.
- II.1.5)Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):
73000000, 73110000, 73200000, 73210000, 72310000, 72300000, 72312000, 72312100, 72313000, 72314000, 72316000, 85100000, 85140000, 72221000, 72224000, 73220000, 79400000, 79411000, 79411100, 79419000.
- II.1.6)Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):
Yes.
II.2)TOTAL FINAL VALUE OF CONTRACT(S)
II.2.1)Total final value of contract(s):
SECTION IV: PROCEDURE
- IV.1)TYPE OF PROCEDURE
- IV.1.1)Type of procedure:
Restricted.
- IV.2)AWARD CRITERIA
- IV.2.1)Award criteria:
The most economically advantageous tender in terms of
1. Please refer to section VI.2 Additional information. Weighting: 140.
- IV.2.2)An electronic auction has been used:
No.
- IV.3)ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
- IV.3.1)File reference number attributed by the contracting authority:
EOI 53007 ITT 53290.
- IV.3.2)Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:
Contract notice
Notice number in the OJEU: 2009/S 120-175333 of 25.6.2009.
SECTION V: AWARD OF CONTRACT
- V.1)Date of contract award decision:
12.1.2010.
- V.2)NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED:
1.
- V.3)NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR IN FAVOUR OF WHOM A CONTRACT AWARD DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN:
SQW Consulting, 48 Melville Street, Edinburgh EH3 7HF, UNITED KINGDOM.
- V.5)THE CONTRACT IS LIKELY TO BE SUB-CONTRACTED:
No.
TITLE: Common assessment framework for adults demonstrator site programme - national evaluation.
V.4)INFORMATION ON VALUE OF CONTRACT
SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
- VI.1)CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY COMMUNITY FUNDS:
No.
- VI.2)ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Evaluation criteria used.
1. Weight 5 - Clear leadership of work (Name of accountable individual within the firm);
2. Weight 10 - Adequate qualifications and experience of the team. (Names and CVs of team members) – should show experience and an understanding of the area;
3. Weight 5 - Organisational capacity to undertake the work given other commitments and contingencies. (Statement of wider team availability and support arrangements – please advise what percentage of the individual’s time will be spent on this contract);
4. Weight 5 - Reasonably timetabled schedule of work, with milestones, to ensure the evaluation and required reports are completed on time and the project is well managed;
5. Weight 5 - A clear understanding of the purpose/objective, importance and policy relevance of the demonstrator sites and the evaluation;
6. Weight 15 - Proposal for the evaluation of the demonstrator sites in line with the scope of work (i.e. how well the bid fits with the brief);
7. Weight 15 - Indication of a suitable evaluation methodology;
8. Weight 15 - Consideration of how the suppliers would show that the findings of the research could be applied to help the delivery of policy and practice in health and/or social care;
9. Weight 10 - Demonstration of how the supplier will strive to achieve good working relationships with the demonstrator sites;
10. Weight 10 - Indication of the types and strength of evidence that the suppliers realistically expect to be produced (including recognition of the differences between the three policy areas in this regard) and how it could be used to inform policy;
11. Weight 5 - Consideration of the relevance of diversity issues;
12. Weight 10 - Consideration of the use of comparison or control data, with reasons for the decisions reached;
13. Weight 5 - Demonstration as to how the proposed evaluation will involve service users and carers;
14. Weight 5 - Consideration of how findings from this research will be disseminated;
15. Weight 5 - A well presented, logical tender using plain English. (Judged by submission);
16. Weight 15 - Value for money.
Contract ends: 30/11/11.
- VI.4)DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:
3.3.2010.
VI.3)PROCEDURES FOR APPEAL:
VI.3.1)Body responsible for appeal procedures:
VI.3.2)Lodging of appeals:
VI.3.3)Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained:
