Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-09
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Region: Staffordshire CC
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85120000: Medical practice services
Submission deadline: 2016-08-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent CCGs wish to commission an enhanced primary care service for nursing home residents within the North Staffs and Stoke-on-Trent CCG boundaries. The enhanced service aims to improve the quality of care for residents through proactive care planning and more coordinated management of residents’ complex needs. Residents will have access to timely medical advice and review so that they can continue to reside in their care home for as long as possible, and practices will assist in the development of care staff to recognise earlier signs of ill health.
The CCGs are inviting Providers who are able to provide core GMS and enhanced medical support to care home residents and whilst it is expected that this will only apply to local GP practices we are happy for wider collaboration to take place between GPs who may wish to establish a lead practice arrangement. Inline with similar successful projects elsewhere in England, the CCGs aim is to align 1 practice to a care home, as this will ensure continuity for the residents and will allow close working relationships between primary care staff and the care home to develop. For those homes with large numbers of beds or defined units, it is expected that more than 1 practice will may provide enhanced services to the home.
Light Touch Regime services: This procurement is for clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (“Regulations”). Accordingly, the contracting authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The contracting authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations. The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in the MOI and PQQ. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement. Right to Cancel: The contracting authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The contracting authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the contracting authority reserves the right to change these. Transparency: The contracting authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the contracting authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004. Further information on transparency can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-and-contracting-transparency-requirements-guidance
Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to offer for further details.
The Authority reserves the right to require groupings of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single economic operator to take primary liability for a contract to be performed by a group of economic operators or to require each party to undertake joint and several liability in respect of the entire contract irrespective of the form the grouping takes.
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.
5.7.1. 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. As part of the Financial assessment MLCSU will look at relevant Dun & Bradstreet reports. If not already registered, 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
Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, need to register at: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Failure to do so 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.
Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body 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.
This exercise will be conducted on the Midlands and Lancashire CSU portal at: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk
Candidates wishing to be considered must register their expression of interest details and provide additional procurement-specific information (by registering on the Bravo portal): i) Candidates should register on the portal at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge). If your organisation has registered previously, you do not need to re-register; ii) Once registered, candidates must also confirm their expression of interest by: a) emailing the relevant information to Roman Klimczak (E-mail: r.klimczak@nhs.net and elaine.butler2@nhs.net). For technical support in registering your details with Bravo Solutions, the BravoSolution please contact their help-desk on +44 8003684850 or email: help@bravosolution.co.uk

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 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. 5.7.1. 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. As part of the Financial assessment MLCSU will look at relevant Dun & Bradstreet reports. If not already registered, 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 Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, need to register at: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Failure to do so will result in an incomplete expression of interest. Please refer to Section VI.3) below for additional information. Providers who are able to provide core GMS and enhanced medical support.
5.7.1. 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. As part of the Financial assessment MLCSU will look at relevant Dun & Bradstreet reports. If not already registered, 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
Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, need to register at: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Failure to do so will result in an incomplete expression of interest. Please refer to Section VI.3) below for additional information. Providers who are able to provide core GMS and enhanced medical support.
Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, need to register at: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Failure to do so will result in an incomplete expression of interest. Please refer to Section VI.3) below for additional information.
Providers who are able to provide core GMS and enhanced medical support.