Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-18
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Region: Staffordshire CC
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33193120 | 85100000: Health services
Submission deadline: 2016-03-31
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The aim of the wheelchair service is to provide high quality assessment and provision of wheelchair equipment, postural management, pressure relief cushioning to children and adults and maintenance service within the following clinical commissioning groups in Staffordshire:
The service will provide assessment, maintenance and repairs as required and associated education delivered at home, within clinical settings or within venues agreed by the service users.
— The patient will be provided with the necessary and appropriate equipment to meet their clinical needs, in line with the service specification;
East Staffordshire CCG is consulting with its primary Health provider as to the status of wheelchair services within their current contract covered by this procurement. Whilst it is the current intention that if appropriate, East Staffordshire CCG will join the procurement in due course, at this stage East Staffordshire CCG cannot commit to participating in this procurement or that its relevant wheelchair services will fall within the scope of the contract. However, East Staffordshire CCG has the option that at a later date, subject to agreement with the other CCGs', it may participate and for its services to fall within the contract scope. This option may be exercised either during the procurement process or during the contract term. East Staffordshire CCG and the other participating CCG's also have yet to agree the contractual approach should the option for East Staffordshire CCG to participate be exercised. This may be by East Staffordshire CCG or through the participating CCGs' contracting with the successful provider on behalf of East Staffordshire CCG or through an alternative contract mechanism to be agreed between the participating CCGs' and East Staffordshire CCG.
Further information about the Staffordshire wheelchair services procurement will be available in the Memorandum of Information (MoI) which will set out the scope and objectives of the procurement together with details of how to complete the invitation to tender documents (ITT). The intention is to publish the ITT on 1.4.2016 via the Midlands and Lancashire CSU Bravo e-tendering solution.
Bidders are invited to express an interest in providing this service by e-mail to Elaine Butler on elaine.butler2@nhs.net no later than 31.3.2016. The following information must be stated in the e-mail:
Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to offer for further details.
Any supplier may be disqualified who: (a) Is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the Court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations; (b) Is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order for compulsory winding up or administration by the Court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations; (c) Has been convicted by a judgement which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct; (d) Has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authorities can demonstrate; (e) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (f) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (g) Is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information; (h) Has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organisation, as defined in Article 2(1)of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA; (i) Has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively; (j) Has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities; (k) Has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10.6.1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.
Any supplier may be disqualified who: (a) Is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the Court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations; (b) Is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order for compulsory winding up or administration by the Court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations; (c) Has been convicted by a judgment which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct; (d) Has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authorities can demonstrate; (e) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (f) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (g) Is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information; (h) Has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organisation, as defined in Article 2(1)of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA; (i) Has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively; (j) Has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities; (k) Has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10.6.1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering.
The following may be requested in assessing potential bidders' economic and financial capacity: (a) Appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance; (b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established; (c) A statement of overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last 2 financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available. Please refer to the Memorandum of Information issued with the ITT for specific requirements; (d) If known, Bidders are asked to provide their DUNS number. This will assist the commissioner in locating your Dun & Bradstreet report more quickly. It can be obtained by following this link: http://salesmarketing.dnb.co.uk/find_my_company/ Bidders are also encouraged to register on the Government site SID4GOV on https://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/organisation/register
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, complete procurement specific information in the form of a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Failure to respond to the PQQ as required will result in an incomplete expression of interest. Please refer to Section VI.3) below for additional information.
If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet, and may also be through the medium of an electronic reverse auction. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body (please refer to the MoI for details) with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services. Any other public sector body wishing to access the contract may do so only with permission from the contracting NHS body. The contract conditions will be set out in the invitation to tender. Further details will be made available via documentation and information released during the course of the tender process. Submission of expression of interest and procurement specific information. This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest and provide additional procurement-specific information through the portal as follows:
i) Candidates should register on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the web site is free of charge). As this is an open procurement, you will be invited to participate if you have expressed an interest within the specified time frame. Any such expressions of interest must be forwarded to Elaine Butler: elaine.butler2@nhs.net with the following information: Organisation name and address; telephone number; e-mail address; web site address and organisation type. You must submit your expression of interest by the deadline stated (31.3.2016). For technical support in accessing the tender documentation once issued, contact the BravoSolution help desk on +44 8003684850 or help@bravosolution.co.uk Although this procurement is for part B services (and therefore not subject to the full scope of the Public Contracts Regulations 2006 (the ‘Regulations’), Midlands and Lancashire CSU will apply best procurement practice. Please note however, that Midlands and Lancashire CSU does not intend to hold itself bound in any way in respect of those regulations save those which apply to part B services.

Eligibility requirements: Any supplier may be disqualified who: (a) Is bankrupt or is being wound up, where his affairs are being administered by the Court, where he has entered into an arrangement with creditors, where he has suspended business activities or is in any analogous situation arising from a similar procedure under national laws and regulations; (b) Is the subject of proceedings for a declaration of bankruptcy, for an order for compulsory winding up or administration by the Court or of an arrangement with creditors or of any other similar proceedings under national laws and regulations; (c) Has been convicted by a judgment which has the force of res judicata in accordance with the legal provisions of the country of any offence concerning his professional conduct; (d) Has been guilty of grave professional misconduct proven by any means which the contracting authorities can demonstrate; (e) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of social security contributions in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (f) Has not fulfilled obligations relating to the payment of taxes in accordance with the legal provisions of the country in which he is established or with those of the country of the contracting authority; (g) Is guilty of serious misrepresentation in supplying the information required under this Section or has not supplied such information; (h) Has been the subject of a conviction for participation in a criminal organisation, as defined in Article 2(1)of Council Joint Action 98/733/JHA; (i) Has been the subject of a conviction for corruption, as defined in Article 3 of the Council Act of 26.5.1972 and Article 3(1) of Council Joint Action 98/742/JHA3 respectively; (j) Has been the subject of a conviction for fraud within the meaning of Article 1 of the Convention relating to the protection of the financial interests of the European Communities; (k) Has been the subject of a conviction for money laundering, as defined in Article 1 of Council Directive 91/308/EEC of 10.6.1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering. The following may be requested in assessing potential bidders' economic and financial capacity: (a) Appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance; (b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established; (c) A statement of overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last 2 financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available. Please refer to the Memorandum of Information issued with the ITT for specific requirements; (d) If known, Bidders are asked to provide their DUNS number. This will assist the commissioner in locating your Dun & Bradstreet report more quickly. It can be obtained by following this link: http://salesmarketing.dnb.co.uk/find_my_company/ Bidders are also encouraged to register on the Government site SID4GOV on https://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/organisation/register NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, complete procurement specific information in the form of a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Failure to respond to the PQQ as required will result in an incomplete expression of interest. Please refer to Section VI.3) below for additional information.
The following may be requested in assessing potential bidders' economic and financial capacity: (a) Appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance; (b) The presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established; (c) A statement of overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last 2 financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available. Please refer to the Memorandum of Information issued with the ITT for specific requirements; (d) If known, Bidders are asked to provide their DUNS number. This will assist the commissioner in locating your Dun & Bradstreet report more quickly. It can be obtained by following this link: http://salesmarketing.dnb.co.uk/find_my_company/ Bidders are also encouraged to register on the Government site SID4GOV on https://sid4gov.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/organisation/register
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, complete procurement specific information in the form of a Pre-Qualification Questionnaire (PQQ) available at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Failure to respond to the PQQ as required will result in an incomplete expression of interest. Please refer to Section VI.3) below for additional information.