Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-11-07
Buyer: NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Competitive procedure with negotiation
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 31500000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-12-08
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Provision of a Primary Care Locality Service on behalf of NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group.
NHS SBS are acting on behalf of the NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group (‘the CCG’) to obtain a Provider to deliver a clinically safe and competent Primary care Locality Service accessible to the local population across Bolton with emphasis upon local population health, access to unplanned urgent care, working in partnership with the wider urgent care system across primary, community, ambulance, secondary health and social care.
The Contracting Authority seeks responses from interested Providers who wish to deliver the Services as set out in the Service Specification. Interested Providers must complete and submit a Qualification Questionnaire (QQ). Providers are asked to indicate their proposed bidding model within their QQ response. Where Bidder Members are involved in the proposed model they should also complete required sections of the QQ. Full details of this can be found in the Bidder Instruction Document. All documents are available electronically via EU Supply — https://nhssbs.eu-supply.com
The contract will be awarded without further advertisement of this opportunity and there will be no further opportunity to express interest. The indicative affordability threshold (including any potential extensions) is a range of 4 000 000 GBP to 4 500 000 GBP per annum including CQUIN and the Contract will be for a duration of 5 years with the option to extend for up to a further 2 years therefore the total contract value (including any potential extensions) will be an indicative range of 28 000 000 GBP to 31 500 000 GBP including CQUIN. The ITT documentation should be completed and submitted by 17:00 on 8.12.2017.
See QQ Bidder Instruction Document for an overview of the procurement process. The QQ includes Grounds for Exclusion, Economic and Financial Standing and Technical and Professional Ability including:
— Contract Specific Technical Questions: A series of scored questions under the criteria of: (1) Deliverability; (2) Quality; (3) Integration and Transformation; and (4) Organisational Sustainability. Some questions ask Bidders to refer to previous experience. Other questions ask Bidders to explain their understanding of local requirements for the Primary Care Locality Service and in some instances their proposed approach to delivery of the Service. This flexibility of approach is utilised as permitted under the ‘light touch regime’.
— Standard Technical Questions: A series of pass/fail questions dealing with aspects relevant to service provision, for example, CQC Registration, Insurances, Regulatory etc.
This will be a Qualification Stage followed by an Award Stage. The Award Stage will involve invitation of proposals which will be evaluated against award criteria and is also likely to include strategic dialogue. Further information will be provided in due course.
The main subject matter falls within the ‘light regime’ of Public Contracts Regulations. Commissioners will use flexibilities available under Regulations 74-76. The Contracting Authorities do not intend (and are not obliged) to follow specified procedures in the Regulations.


Award value: 31500000