Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-04-12
Buyer: Arden and GEM CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 7835529 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-05-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Intermediate Care Bed Based Reablement Service and Therapy Service for Leicester City CCG (LC CCG), East Leicestershire and Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group (ELR CCG) and West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (WL CCG).
Arden and GEM CSU is conducting this procurement exercise on behalf of the 3 Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) Clinical Commissioning Groups, to seek suitably qualified and experienced providers to deliver the Pathway 3 Intermediate Care Reablement service.
The objectives of this project are to commission an LLR wide solution for Pathway 3; this involves the integration of the Discharge to Assess placement (D2A), Non Weight Bearing (Placement) and reablement (placement) pathways. This integration will involve consolidating the existing 90 plus locations into just 3: 1 in each CCG area. It will be set in specific reablement environments, with reablement skilled care staff and a team of dedicated therapy staff. This will prevent any further de-conditioning post transfer and enable patients to quickly transition into being able to optimise their self-care and improve their well-being. This integrated care home based reablement service will enable patients initially unable to go home following discharge from the Acute sector, to have all their eligibly assessments completed promptly when fully optimised and away from the acute care setting.
The requirement includes care for and support to patients with cognitive needs as well as general care needs with 24/7 reablement support to prevent further de-conditioning and actively promote self-care. All of this supported by an on-site 7 days a week therapy service to ensure all patients are assessed on transfer and personal goals set. This is to be coordinated by regular multi-disciplinary team meetings held as appropriate to the patients' needs but at least on a weekly basis.
There are 4 lots and this is a new service requirement but it is anticipated that the service provision resultant of this procurement will have total agreement values estimated as below for the 3 years:
It is the intention of the Commissioners to enter into a 3 year contract with a possible extension option of a further 2 x 12 month periods. The estimated values above cover the 3 year period from service commencement 1.11.2016 until 31.10.2019, and are shown not including VAT.
This service will be commissioned via an open procurement process. There will be 2 Invitations to Tender (ITT's) which will be live on 14.4.2016 on the Arden GEM CSU e-tendering procurement portal (Bravo). 1 will be for the care home bed based service required for lots 1, 2 and 3, another for the therapy service lot 4. All submissions will be evaluated using the scoring criteria contained within the ITT Instructions — Document 1, for each respective service. Clarifications may be asked during the procurement process, the deadline for ITT clarification questions is 17:00 on the 9.5.2016.
All correspondence relating to this procurement throughout all stages of the process must be managed through the Arden and GEM CSU eTendering Procurement Portal Bravo only.
Providers wishing to submit an ITT to deliver this service need to log onto Arden GEM CSU procurement portal (Bravo): https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html and should note the deadline for the ITT submissions of 17:00 on 16.5.2016.
An intermediate bed based reablement service for the East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG area, with a separate therapy service in Lot 4 of this procurement. Provision of 20 beds in a suitable facility and geographical location.
The services to which this notice relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3, Part 10 of the Public Services Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) ('the Regulations').
Neither the publication of this notice nor the employment of any particular terminology nor any other indication shall be taken to mean that the contracting authorities intend to hold themselves bound by any of the Regulations save those applicable to the procurement of Part B services. These opportunities may be divided into lots. Please see published documentation for further detail.
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://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.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 user-name you chose and click ‘Save' when complete — You will shortly receive an e-mail with your unique password (please keep this secure). 2. Express an Interest in the Tender — Login to the portal with the user-name/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 on-screen instructions to complete the PQQ/ ITT — There may be a mixture of online and offline actions for you to perform (there is detailed on-line 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.
An intermediate bed based reablement service for the West Leicestershire CCG area, with a separate therapy service in Lot 4 of this procurement. Provision of 20 beds in a suitable facility and geographical location.
The services to which this notice relates fall within Part B of Schedule 3, Part 10 of the Public Services Contracts Regulations 2006 (as amended) ('the Regulations').