Tender: Gateshead: health training services

UK-Gateshead: health training services

2008/S 234-311298

CONTRACT NOTICE

Services

SECTION I: CONTRACTING AUTHORITY

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

Address: Organisation: NHS South of Tyne & Wear,

Gateshead Primary Care Trust, Team View, 5th Avenue Business Park, Team Valley Trading Estate, Tyne & Wear

, Attn: Miss A. McLellan, Country code: UK-Gateshead Postal code: NE11 0NB. Tel. (44-1914) 45 28 03. E-mail: anneke.mclellan@ghnt.nhs.uk. Fax (44-1914) 45 28 07.

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:

Other: Hospital.

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 by the contracting authority:

Provision of Brief Intervention Alcohol Training.

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

Services.

Service category: No 27.

Main place of performance: Gateshead Primary Care Trust Team View, 5th Avenue Business Park Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead, NE11 0NB.

NUTS code: Location: "Tyneside">UKC22.

II.1.3) The notice involves:
II.1.4) Information on framework agreement:
II.1.5) Short description of the contract or purchase(s):

Deliver a programme of brief intervention training in relation to alcohol to a range of staff in order to maximise referrals to the new treatment services. Training will aid staff in giving advice, information, encouragement and support to particularly hazardous or harmful drinkers.

II.1.6) Common procurement vocabulary (CPV):

CPV code: "Health training services">80561000 , CPV code: "Staff training services">80511000 .

II.1.7) Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA):

No.

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:
II.2.2) Options:
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:

The Trust reserves the right to performance bond and/or company guarantee.

III.1.2) Main financing conditions and payment arrangements and/or reference to the relevant provisions regulating them:
III.1.3) Legal form to be taken by the group of economic operators to whom the contract is to be awarded:

A list of all major contracts won and their value to Public and Private healthcare organisations in the past three years.

III.1.4) Other particular conditions to which the performance of the contract is subject:
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 requirements are met: Appropriate statements from Bankers, evidence or relevant professional risk indemnity insurance. Proof that none of the circumstances set out in Article 29 of Directive 92.50/EEC apply or registered on NHS-SID.

III.2.2) Economic and financial capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Statement of the overall turnover for the business of the supplier. The audited accounts relating to the business of the service provider for the last three financial years.

III.2.3) Technical capacity:

Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if requirements are met: Description of the undertaking's technical facilities, its measuring for ensuring quality and its study and research facilities. Certificates drawn up by quality control institutes or agencies. Indication of arrangements for quality checks on the supplier's premises.

III.2.4) Reserved contracts:
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.

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:
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 below:

1. Cost. Weighting: 30 %.

2. Service provision/delivery. Weighting: 25 %.

3. Experience/references. Weighting: 15 %.

4. Workforce standards. Weighting: 10 %.

5. Reporting & reviewing information. Weighting: 5 %.

6. Corporate standards. Weighting: 10 %.

7. Service developments & improvements. Weighting: 5 %.

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:

BIAT/08/21.

IV.3.2) Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract:
IV.3.3) Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents or descriptive document:
IV.3.4) Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate:

5.1.2009.

IV.3.5) Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates:
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:
IV.3.8) Conditions for opening tenders:

SECTION VI: COMPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

VI.1) THIS IS A RECURRENT PROCUREMENT:
VI.2) CONTRACT RELATED TO A PROJECT AND/OR PROGRAMME FINANCED BY EU FUNDS:
VI.3) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

II.3) Duration of the contract or time-limit for completion: Period in months: (with an option to extend by a further 12 months).

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:

27.11.2008.