Contract award: UK-Nottingham: services provided by nurses

UK-Nottingham: services provided by nurses

2010/S 171-261474

CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE

Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

• I.1)
  NAME, ADDRESSES AND CONTACT POINT(S)

  Attn: Tel. E-mail: re:source Procurement Hub
  re:source House, Millenium Way East, Phoenix Centr
  Pauline Parker
  NG8 6ARNottingham
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 1159752400
  pauline.parker@resource-cph.nhs.uk

• I.2)
  TYPE OF THE CONTRACTING AUTHORITY AND MAIN ACTIVITY OR ACTIVITIES

  National or federal agency/office

  Health

SECTION II: OBJECT OF THE CONTRACT

• II.1)
  DESCRIPTION
• II.1.1)
  Title attributed to the contract

  Coordination Centre, EoLC, Northants.

• 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 85141200.

  NUTS code UKF23

II.1.3)
The notice involves

• II.1.4)
  Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

  Will coordinate services and provide telephone support for patients and carers as required. It will need to be able to:

  — operate 24/7 365 days per year,

  — be accessed by any health professional (acute trust, hospice, rapid response, GP and DN) as well as patients and carers 18,

  — book the required service cover such as low level support,

  — activate the rapid response service,

  — activate transfer to a community bed (including hospice) coordinated with the managers in that service, as advised by health care professional (GP, DN etc),

  — activate transfer to acute hospital as advised by health care professional,

  — inform the patient / carer of services that are booked for them including the expected response time. This must include the name of individual who will be making the home visit,

  — inform the health care team (GP, DN etc) of the services booked for patients and the expected response time (this may be retrospective),

  — give patient and carer advice which may include sign posting to other areas of care such as welfare rights,

  — take enquiry from patient or carer about care and refer to the appropriate service (e.g. equipment requirement passed to DN service to action),

  — make follow-up phone call to patient and carer to provide information about expected action from their enquiry above (e.g. DN will access equipment need and have delivered by x date and time).

  Transfer from acute hospital or community bed to alternative care environment should be organised from that service as part of patient overall discharge planning.

• II.1.5)
  Common procurement vocabulary (CPV)

  85141200

• II.1.6)
  Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

  No

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. Access, efficiency, information. Weighting 30

  2. Quality and service, policies, implementation plan, quality, standards etc.. Weighting 40

  3. Commercial, value for money and financial viability, delivery performance. Weighting 30

• 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

  EMCPH-09-745

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

  Notice number in the OJEU: 2009/S 217-313522 of 9.11.2009

SECTION V: AWARD OF CONTRACT

TITLE Coordination Centre, EoLC, Northants.

• V.1)
  Date of contract award decision:

  3.8.2010

• V.2)
  NUMBER OF OFFERS RECEIVED:

  4

• V.3)
  NAME AND ADDRESS OF ECONOMIC OPERATOR IN FAVOUR OF WHOM A CONTRACT AWARD DECISION HAS BEEN TAKEN

  Tel. Internet: Fax Nestor Primecare Limited
  4/50 Summer Hill Road
  B1 3RBBirmingham
  UNITED KINGDOM
  +44 1212143752
  www.primecare.uk.net
  +44 1212331856

• V.4)
  INFORMATION ON VALUE OF CONTRACT

  If annual or monthly value number of years 3

• V.5)
  THE CONTRACT IS LIKELY TO BE SUB-CONTRACTED

  No

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

• VI.1)
  CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY COMMUNITY FUNDS

  No

• VI.2)
  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

  This contract will be awarded as a Part B Service with a possible extension of 1 year, + 1 year, subject to satisfactory performance through the initial contracted stage.

  If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this may be done in whole or in part via electronic means using the Internet. The contract is for the benefit of other participating NHS bodies (whether acting individually, or on behalf of, or together as members of any consortia) along with any other non-NHS bodies which the participants deem necessary for the delivery of services or goods to NHS bodies, local authorities, other government departments or non departmental public bodies charged with the delivery of healthcare or health related services. The selected supplier(s) will be expected to provide a Coordination Centre services (as specified within the tender) from within their range as and when required by re:source CPH and its member Trusts from time to time. Future additions to their ranges may also be included at a later stage.

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

• VI.4)
  DATE OF DISPATCH OF THIS NOTICE:

  31.8.2010