Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-18
Buyer: NHS Vale of York Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Region: YORKSHIRE AND THE HUMBER
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Restricted procedure
CPV classification: 33192100 | 33192600 | 33193120 | 33193121 | 33193220
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-20
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS Vale of York CCG is seeking to commission an Integrated Community Equipment Service and Community Wheelchair Service for its population and that of the associated commissioning organisations (combined population of 800 000 plus) through a restricted procurement process. It is anticipated that the new services will be in place by December 2016. The services are divided into 2 lots and bidders can bid for 1 or both of the lots. NHS Vale of York is acting as lead commissioner for this procurement on behalf of:
Lot 1: Integrated Community Equipment Service — NHS Vale of York CCG, NHS Harrogate and Rural District CCG, NHS Scarborough and Ryedale CCG, NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby CCG, North Yorkshire County Council, NHS Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven CCG and NHS Cumbria CCG.
Lot 2: Community Wheelchair Service — NHS Vale of York CCG, NHS Harrogate and Rural District CCG, NHS Scarborough and Ryedale CCG and NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire and Whitby CCG.
Currently City of York Council are not party to this contract. However, dependant on their preferred future commissioning intentions, we reserve the right (subject to the agreement of all parties) to potentially add them as an additional associate at any point throughout the duration of this contract. This may lead to an increase in demand and activity of circa 700 000 GBP per annum.
We are looking for providers who can bring added value to the North Yorkshire Health and Social Care economy. The preferred bidder(s) will be required to demonstrate how they will deliver services in an environment of transforming health and social care provision as outlined in the NHS 5 year forward view and the Care Act 2014.
The aim of the integrated community equipment service is to support health, social care and educational needs and to help alleviate risk and promote independence. It is required to provide a service for children and adults with physical and/or learning disabilities, long term conditions or mental health problems. Additionally many older people who do not see themselves as disabled but may be frail can certainly benefit from these services. The service could be said to provide equipment to assist with home care, or to assist with a programme of rehabilitation or to assist with independent living of people within the community. Therefore, the broad range of community equipment services to be covered by this service includes short and long term loan of:
The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.
The primary aim of the wheelchair service is to meet the needs of service users with restricted mobility and their carers, through timely, high quality specialist assessment of needs and the prescribing and provision of appropriate wheelchairs (including specialist), seating systems and associated equipment, including any necessary repair and routine maintenance. Where requested the wheelchair service will operate a voucher scheme to facilitate greater choice, in line with the principles of personal health budgets.
Services will be commissioned in line with Wheelchair Charter as published by the National Wheelchair Alliance.
The Contracting Authority intends to use an eTendering system in this procurement exercise and reserves the right to use a reverse auction.
The overall budget for these services is circa 17 500 000 GBP to 30 000 000 GBP over the total length of the contract. These figures are an estimated value and for illustrative purposes only. Further details will be provided at ITT stage.
Parent company or other guarantees, bonds, deposit, insurance or other forms of security may be required in certain circumstances. See the Invitation to Tender for further details.
Groupings of bidders may be required to form a particular legal form or to require 1 party to undertake primary legal liability or to require that each party undertakes joint and several liability.
1) Entering general supplier information. NHS Vale of York CCG utilises the Cabinet Office Supplier Information Database (sid4gov) to manage and assess general pre-qualification information in the form of a profile.
sid4gov has been developed by the Cabinet Office following agile development principles to provide a replacement for sid4health in the 1

Eligibility requirements: 1) Entering general supplier information. NHS Vale of York CCG utilises the Cabinet Office Supplier Information Database (sid4gov) to manage and assess general pre-qualification information in the form of a profile. sid4gov has been developed by the Cabinet Office following agile development principles to provide a replacement for sid4health in the 1 st phase, with subsequent developments planned to improve the scope of the questions, scope of user access and integration with other eEnabled applications. The future vision is to create a single supplier registration portal that will provide 1 place for suppliers to register and provide information for procurement in support of management information requirements and responses to tenders across the public sector. This portal will also provide public sector buyers with a single place to access supplier related information in support of market engagement and procurement processes. Candidates are requested to provide their profile in sid4gov. In order to access sid4gov for the 1 st time, you will need to register, providing your individual and organisation details including the relevant DUNs number. The use of a DUNs number is mandated for registration and will support identification of suppliers across all eEnablement applications. This will help government to improve data quality throughout procurement and is a key enabler of the policy for transparency. It will also assist in the future development as we integrate across other applications in support of a single registration process. There is no cost to suppliers in registering for sid4gov or getting a DUNs number. Candidates should ensure all the mandatory fields of their sid4gov profile are completed. Failure to comply with the completion of all mandatory fields could result in the elimination from the procurement process. Please note D&B data will be supplied automatically by D&B. Candidates must publish at least 1 validated profile to make their profile available for buyers to view generally. Please register on sid4gov at https://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk For further guidance please visit the following link: https://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/login For further assistance about sid4gov please contact the support team at support@nqc.com 2) Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information. This procurement exercise will be conducted on NHS Sourcing e-procurement portal at https://www.nhssourcing.co.uk/web/login.shtml Candidates wishing to be considered for this contract must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement specific information through the portal as follows: i) Candidates should register on the NHS Sourcing e-procurement portal at https://www.nhssourcing.co.uk/web/login.shtml ii) Once registered, candidates must express their interest as follows: a) Login to the portal, b) Select ‘View current opportunities and notices’, c) Access the listing related to this contract titled Community Equipment Services and Community Wheelchair Services and view details, d) Click on Express Interest button; iii) Once you have expressed interest, please access the My PQQs / My ITTs page, where you can construct your reply as instructed. You must then publish your reply using the publish button; iv) For any support in submitting your expression of interest please contact the eTendering help desk at 0800 368 4850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk As per requirements to complete sid4gov profile — see III.2.1) for more information on how to complete sid4gov profile. As per requirements to complete sid4gov profile — see III.2.1) for more information on how to complete sid4gov profile.
As per requirements to complete sid4gov profile — see III.2.1) for more information on how to complete sid4gov profile.