CONTRACT 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

II.1.1)

Title attributed to the contract by the contracting authority

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

Wakefield, West Yorkshire.

II.1.3)

This notice involves

A public contract
The setting up of a Dynamic Purchasing System
The establishment of a framework agreement

II.1.4)

Information on framework agreement (if applicable)

Framework agreement with a single operators
Framework agreement with several operators

Number of participants to the framework agreement envisaged

Duration of the framework agreement

Justification for a framework agreement the duration of which exceeds four years

Estimated total value of purchases for the entire duration of the framework agreement

Frequency and value of the contracts to be awarded

II.1.5)

Short description of the contract or purchase(s)

NHS Wakefield Clinical Commissioning Group (WCCG) is seeking to establish a contract with one experienced and established consultant for its Care Closer to Home requirement.

Wakefield CCG wants to look at the difference in outcomes experienced by Wakefield residents who experience care through the integrated care teams and compare this cohort with those who haven't experienced integrated care.

The health and social care community in Wakefield wish to put people at the heart of their services and therefore want to carry out meaningful and ongoing patient and public engagement.

Therefore, Wakefield CCG wishes to commission an independent, high-quality, evaluation.

II.1.6)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

II.1.7)

Contract covered by the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

II.1.8)

Division into lots

one lot only

one or more lots

all lots

II.1.9)

Will variants be accepted

II.2)

Quantity or Scope of the Contract

II.2.1)

Total quantity or scope

II.2.2)

Options

Provisional timetable for recourse to these options

Number of possible renewals

In the case of renewable supplies or service contracts, estimated time frame for subsequent contracts

II.3)

Duration of the contract or limit for completion

Section III: Legal, Economic, Financial and Technical Information

III.1)

Conditions Relating to the Contract

III.1.1)

Deposits and guarantees required

WCCG reserves the right to ask for an indemnity, guarantee or bank bond if the supplier does not meet the required standard for economic and financial standing.

III.1.2)

Main Terms of financing and payment and/or reference to the relevant provisions

Payment will follow delivery and acceptance of the services, to an agreed milestone schedule

III.1.3)

Legal form to be taken by the grouping of suppliers, contractors or service providers to whom the contract is to be awarded

(if applicable) If a group of economic operators submits a bid, the group must nominate a lead organisation to deal with the authority. WCCG shall require the group to form a legal entity before entering into the contract.

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

Suppliers Instructions How to Express Interest in this Tender~: 1. Register your company on the eSourcing portal (this is only required once) - Browse to the eSourcing Portal: https://www.nhssourcing.co.uk and click the link to register - Accept the terms and conditions and click 'continue' - Enter your correct business and user details - Note the username you chose and click 'Save' when complete - You will shortly receive an email with your unique password (please keep this secure) 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 or 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 & 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.

III.2.2)

Economic and financial capacity

III.2.3)

Technical capacity

III.2.4)

Reserved contracts

The contract is restricted to sheltered workshops
The execution of the contract is restricted to the framework of sheltered employment programmes

Section IV: Procedure

IV.1)

Type of Procedure

Open		Restricted
Accelerated restricted		Negotiated
Accelerated negotiated		Competitive dialogue

Justification for the choice of accelerated procedure

IV.1.1)

Have candidates already been selected?

IV.1.2)

Limitations on the number of operators who will be invited to tender or to participate

Objective criteria for choosing the limited number of candidates

IV.1.3)

Reduction of the number of operators during the negotiation or dialogue

Recourse to staged procedure to gradually reduce the number of solutions to be discussed or tenders to be negotiated

IV.2)

Award Criteria

IV.2.2)

An electronic auction will be used

IV.3 Administrative Information

IV.3.1)

Reference number attributed to the notice by the contracting authority

WSYB/WAKE/RS/13/02

IV.3.2)

Previous publication(s) concerning the same contract

Prior Information Notice
Notice on a Buyer Profile

Other previous publications

IV.3.3)

Conditions for obtaining specifications and additional documents

IV.3.4)

Time-limit for receipt of tenders or requests to participate

IV.3.5)

Date of dispatch of invitations to tender or to participate to selected candidates

IV.3.6)

Language or languages in which tenders or requests to participate can be drawn up

IV.3.7)

Minimum time frame during which the tenderer must maintain the tender 

IV.3.8)

Conditions for opening tenders

Section VI: Other Information

VI.1)

Indicate whether this procurement is a recurrent one and the Estimated timing for further notices to be published

VI.2)

Does the contract relate to a Project/Programme financed by Community Funds?

VI.3)

Additional Information

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

VI.4)

Procedures for appeal

VI.4.1)

Body responsible for appeal procedures

Body responsible for mediation procedures

VI.4.2)

Lodging of appeals
Precise information on deadline(s) for lodging appeals:

See VI.4.1

VI.4.3)

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

VI.5)

Dispatch date of this Notice

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Health and social care in Wakefield is being transformed in order to provide care closer to people's homes, reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and support the timely discharge of patients. A full scale service redesign is taking place to create integrated, multi-disciplinary care teams in the community which will reduce unnecessary hospital admission and facilitate early discharge.

A number of positive outcomes have been identified, which will be achieved by this transformation, including seamless care for patients, improved independence for patients, increased, more timely support for carers, better staff experience and a more cost-effective health and social care system. Wakefield have developed an Assurance Framework covering the outcomes and measuring them using a number of relevant indicators. This is presented to the Programme Board on a quarterly basis.

Wakefield CCG wants to look at the difference in outcomes experienced by Wakefield residents who experience care through the integrated care teams and compare this cohort with those who haven't experienced integrated care.

Therefore, Wakefield CCG wishes to commission an independent, high-quality, evaluation.

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.

ANNEX B

Information About Lots

1)

Short Description

Health and social care in Wakefield is being transformed in order to provide care closer to people's homes, reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and support the timely discharge of patients. A number of positive outcomes have been identified, which will be achieved by this transformation, including seamless care for patients, improved independence for patients, increased, more timely support for carers, better staff experience and a more cost-effective health and social care system.

The health and social care community in Wakefield wish to put people at the heart of their services and therefore want to carry out meaningful and ongoing patient and public engagement.

Conventionally, measuring people's experience of services and service change tends to be ad hoc, conducted by staff and rely heavily on patients and the public taking the initiative to attend a focus group, event or complete a written survey.

There are a number of weaknesses with this approach:

— Surveys are not ideal for a population such as Wakefield, with low literacy levels and often lack validity due to poor response rates. Surveys are also seldom representative of all groups, as those people who are more highly educated, and therefore less likely to suffer from poor health, are more likely to complete them. They are also more likely to be completed by people that have had a very bad or a very good experience of services, making them vulnerable to bias.

— Qualitative interviewing is valued for the rich data it accesses about people's experiences of services. It can focus on lived experiences and allow more profound conclusions to be drawn by the reflective process. It is also ideal for those who have low literacy levels. This can be really useful for decision makers when shaping services and understanding people's behaviour. However, it is unrepresentative of a wider population and uses a very small sample, unlike written questionnaires.

— Ad hoc and one-off consultations are limited when evaluating on-going services particularly if you are trying to continuously develop them in response to patient and public involvement.

— Consultation carried out by staff run the risk of being biased as patients, particularly older ones, worry that they might be branded troublemakers if they give negative feedback (a recent report (April 2013) by the Care Quality Commission 'Fear of Raising a Concern about Care', showed that 26 % of people were worried that complaining would brand them as a 'trouble maker').

2)

Common Procurement Vocabulary (CPV)

3)

Quantity or scope

4)

Indication about different contract dates

5)

Additional Information about lots

The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.