Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-02
Buyer: The Common Services Agency (more commonly known as NHS National Services Scotland) ("NSS")
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 72221000: Business analysis consultancy services
Estimated value: 2000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-07-03
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Scottish Approach to Quality Improvement Framework Agreement for the provision of a national strategic Quality Improvement (QI) partner with experience of having applied QI in a variety of contexts, having achieved and sustained results at scale, designed to drive system-wide transformation.
Quality Improvement. To award a national strategic quality improvement partner who will be required to add value to and support existing quality improvement activities across the NHS and wider public sector in Scotland. The awarded partner will work in partnership with The Scottish Government, NHS Scotland and the wider public sector to build sustainable capacity and capability for continuous quality improvement, and deliver real and high impact improvements; in order to support meeting the overall Scottish Government vision of having a sustainable economy; where opportunities, wealth and power is shared more equally; where people are healthy and active, and live in safe communities free from discrimination. This will include working within an number of areas/outcomes including: public services; children, young people and families; inequalities; business; crime; employment opportunities and communities.
Total value shown is for duration of the framework and based on last 12 months of supplier spend data. Based on historic data the estimated annual value of this requirement is 500 000 GBP. The framework period will be 4 years.
Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.
See contract / tender documentation which incorporates requirements of the ESPD (Scotland) and the financial period for reporting in the previous 3 years.
A minimum level of 1m GBP turnover in each of the last 3 years and related to the relevant activities must be evidenced via the provided accounts.
A number of the technical performance requirements are mandatory — these are detailed in the contract/tender documentation.
Framework value of 2 000 000 GBP reflects the anticipated value of Scottish Approach to Improvement Services over the 4 year framework duration based on past spend but no guarantees are given to either volume or value of spend as this will be subject to the call offs from the framework.
The Authority intends that a single Framework Participants will be awarded to the Framework Agreement ('Framework Participant') (subject to submission of admissible Tenders as determined in accordance with the provisions of the ITT). The Framework Agreement is to be available to all entities constituted pursuant to the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978, (i.e. all NHS Scotland Health Boards, Special Health Boards and the Authority or other NHS organisations).
The buyer is using PCS-Tender to conduct this ITT exercise. The Project code is NP651-18. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2343.
Community benefits are included in this requirement. For more information see: http://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/info/InfoCentre.aspx?ID=2361.
The Statement of Requirements will detail the Community Benefit background and objectives. The contract will mandate that suppliers respond in its tender outlining current Community Benefits and proposals if successful and mandating that they support the overall Community Benefit concept and process including a contract and supplier management process post award.
The Authority will notify economic operators who submitted a tender or (where no deselection process has previously been made) applied to be selected to tender, of its decision to award the Framework Agreement which notification will contain, among other information, a summary of the reasons as to why the economic operator was unsuccessful. The notification will incorporate a ‘standstill period’ of a minimum of 10 (ten) clear calendar days (or a minimum of 15 (fifteen) if the communication method used is not electronic) between the date on which the Authority dispatches the notice(s) and the date on which the Authority proposes to conclude the relevant Framework Agreement. The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority during the standstill period will automatically continue the prohibition on entering into the Framework Agreement until the court proceedings are determined, discontinued or disposed of, or the court, by interim order, brings to an end the prohibition. The remedies that may be awarded by the courts before the Framework Agreement has been entered into include the setting aside of the decision to award the Framework Agreement to the winning tenderer(s). The bringing of court proceedings against the Authority after the Framework Agreement has been entered into will not affect the Framework Agreement unless grounds for the imposition of special penalties under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 can be established. Otherwise the remedies that may be awarded by the courts where the Framework Agreement has been entered into are limited to the award of damages.

Eligibility requirements: Economic operators may be excluded from this competition if they are in breach of any of the situations referred to in regulation 58 of the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015.

Award value: 2000000