CONTRACT AWARD NOTICE – OFFICIAL JOURNAL

Section I: Contracting Authority

I.1)

Name, Address and Contact Point(s)

I.2)

Type of contracting Authority and Main Activity or Activities

Ministry or any other national or federal authority, including their regional or local sub-divisions National or federal agency/Office Regional or local Authority Regional or local Agency/Office Body governed by public law European Institution/Agency or International Organisation

General public services Defence Public order and safety Environment Economic and financial affairs Health Housing and community amenities Social protection Recreation, culture and religion Education

Section II: Object of the Contract

II.1)

Description

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Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

Integrated End of Life Care Pathway.

II.1.2(a))

Type of works contract

II.1.2(b))

Type of supplies contract

II.1.2(c))

Type of service contract

II.1.2)

Main site or location of works, place of delivery or performance

Calderdale Area.

II.1.3)

This notice involves a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

General Overview and Objectives of Services

The simplified end of life care pathway for Calderdale, expects the service to provide and support the delivery of high quality, evidence based, safe patient centred care.

It is vital to the success of the proposal that a thorough awareness raising programme be implemented across all professionals in the end of life care pathway. This will ensure maximum output is achieved. It is vital that all providers including the Calderdale CCG are committed to the education process in order to fully realise the patient and financial benefits.

To support implementation of this pathway, Calderdale CCG will commission an end of life facilitator to embed end of life tools, champion key quality standards across the pathway and coordinate training and education to meet local needs. There is currently no dedicated end of life care facilitator within the area. Key tasks of the facilitator role would include an Out of Hours Community Nursing Service. This would involve a dedicated nursing team, which will provide planned and crisis visits out of hours, as well as telephone support to patients and carers, and generalist palliative care advice and support to other professionals such as care home staff. It is proposed that this team is in addition to the existing structure and will be ring fenced for end of life patients.

The increasing complexity of patient needs resulting in increased demand on staff time is the basis for the proposed uplift in staff numbers. It is crucial for the out of hours service to be able to double up on staff numbers to ensure staff safety but also to deliver more complex care in response to the patient's needs.

The Out of Hours team will facilitate and support discharge out of hours from Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust. The discharge will be facilitated safely with the individuals consent and will work in collaboration with existing care providers. The team will also work with existing care providers and ensure handover notes are in place for discharges in-hours. This will contribute to a reduction in length of stay in terms of acute bed day's and will ensure more patients die in their preferred place of care.

This service will provide end of life patients and their carers/families with:

Support for community staff who need assistance/education in order to provide palliative care;

Provision of advice and support re specialist palliative care to existing clinical staff;

An integrated approach to care, working alongside existing community and primary care team. The patients GP will retain clinical responsibility;

Receipt and triaging of calls from patients and their families registered with a Calderdale GP;

Response to crisis calls by providing crisis nursing hands-on care including physical symptom management, psychological and social support;

Telephone advice and reassurance;

Follow up telephone support or home planned visit for patients identified by their key worker when other planned services are not available;

Planned nursing care to facilitate a patient's choice to stay at home;

Carer support immediately after death.

The objectives of the service are:

To support the existing District Nursing teams and step in when more specialist services are required, through the provision of advice and practical support for more complex situations.

To improve the quality and clinical effectiveness of care delivered at home to end of life care patients and their carers/families in Calderdale and to limit the physical and psychological suffering that patients and carers experience at end of life; maximising quality of life through the provision of rapid and effective care and support.

To ensure speedy access to end of life care is met in the community in a timely manner.

To decrease the length of time between seeking assistance and accessing specialised palliative care services in order to mitigate crisis events.

To act as a flexible, responsive service that will react to unscheduled demand out of hours.

To deliver a consistent response and comprehensive communication with other providers for example Hospices, McMillan Services and District Nurses.

To support the transition from care provided in an acute hospital setting to home in a safe and timely manner.

To educate patients and carers on self-care and the best use of services.

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Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.6)

Contract covered by the government procurement agreement (GPA)

II.2)

Total final value of the contract(s)

II.2.1)

Total final value of the contract(s)

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of procedure

IV.1.1)

Type of procedure

IV.2)

Award criteria

IV.2.1)

Award criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction has been used

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

Other previous publications

Section V: Award of contract

Contract No:

V.1)

Date of contract award:

V.2)

Numbers of offers received:

V.3)

Name and address of economic operator to whom the contract has been awarded

V.4)

Information on value of contract

V.5)

The contract is likely to be subcontracted

Short description of the value/proportion of the contract to be subcontracted

Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender~:

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— Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://noecpc.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.shtml and click the link to register

— Accept the terms and conditions and click ‘continue’;

— Enter your correct details;

— Note the username you chose and click ‘Save’ when complete;

— You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (keep secure). Once registered, please follow the steps to import your sid4health profile, the instructions to do so are in the ‘Supplier Import guide’ once logged in. You will then be able to express interest in the tender exercise that is of interest to you.

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/Invitations to Tender open to any registered supplier);

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

— Click the ‘Express Interest’ button at the top 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 ‘Buyer Attachments’ in the ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’ box.

3. Responding to the tender

— Click ‘My Response’ under ‘PQQ/ ITT Details’, you can choose to ‘Create Response’ or to ‘Decline to Respond’ (please give a reason if declining);

— 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 and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed online help available) You must then submit your reply using the ‘Submit Response’ button at the top of the page. If you require any further assistance please consult the online help or contact the eTendering help desk at 0800 3684580 or help@bravosolution.co.uk

Section VI: Complementary Information

VI.1)

Contract related to a project and/or programme financed by community funds?

VI.2)

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.3)

Procedures for appeal

VI.3.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.3.2)

Lodging of appeals

VI.3.3)

Service from which information about the lodging of appeals may be obtained

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Dispatch date of this Notice