Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-18
Buyer: Arden and GEM CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 8234181 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-09-16
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Residential Care Bed Based Reablement Service and Therapy Service for Leicester City CCG (LC CCG), East Leicestershire & Rutland Clinical Commissioning Group (ELR CCG) and West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning Group (WL CCG)
Arden & GEM CSU is conducting this procurement exercise on behalf of the three Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutland Clinical Commissioning Groups, in partnership with Leicester City Council, Leicester County Council and Rutland County Council 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 a maximum of just six; up to two 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 deconditioning 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 deconditioning and actively promote self-care. All of this supported by on-site 7 days a week therapy 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.
This is a new service requirement but it is anticipated that the service provision resultant of this procurement will have a contract agreement value as estimated in the section on Lots.
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 three year period from service commencement January 2017 until December 2020, and are shown not including VAT.
This service will be commissioned via an open procurement process. There will be two ITT’s which will be live on 16.8.2016 on the Arden GEM CSU e-tendering procurement portal (Bravo). One will be for the care home bed based service required for lots 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3A and 3B, another for the therapies 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 5pm on the 9th September 2016.
All correspondence relating to this procurement throughout all stages of the process must be managed through the Arden & GEM CSU eTendering Procurement Portal Bravo only.
Providers wishing to submit an ITT to deliver this service need to log onto Arden GEM CSUs procurement portal (Bravo):- https://ardengemcsu.bravosolution.co.uk/web/login.html
»You will shortly be sent an email with your unique password, please treat this securely (if you lose it there is a ‘Forgot my Password’ link on the portal homepage).
»From the suppliers reserved area click ‘ITTs Open to All Suppliers’ –this is a repository of all ITTs open to any registered supplier.
»Browse the ITTs (there may be more than one page) and select “Residential Care Bed Based Reablement Service’ and / or ‘Residential Care Therapies Service’ by clicking on it.
»Click the ‘Express Interest’ action –this will move the ITT from the ITTs Open to All Suppliers area to your ‘My ITTs’ area –this is a reserved area for ITTs that you have either been invited to or expressed interest in.
AGCSU is managing this Procurement in accordance with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the “Regulations”). [The Service(s) is/are being procured as “Schedule 3 — Social and Other Specific Services” and AGCSU is bound only by those parts of the Regulations applying to Schedule 3 services].
A residential bed based reablement service for the East Leicestershire & Rutland CCG, provision of 10 beds in a suitable facility and geographical location.