Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-07-13
Buyer: Department of Finance
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85110000: Hospital and related services | 85111000: Hospital services | 85111200: Medical services
Estimated value: 1725000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-08-16

Technical requirements: The Occupational Health Service (OHS) is part of the Corporate Services Directorate of the NICS Human Resources within the Department of Finance. It provides occupational health and medical advisory services to Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS) Departments and Agencies. It is a multi-disciplinary organisation comprising medical, nursing, occupational therapy and administrative staff. To assist with providing advice to NICS Departments and Agencies, OHS requires input from a range of medical specialists. The OHS commissions medical assessments on behalf of:The Northern Ireland Civil Service (NICS); The Driver and Vehicle Agency (DVA); The Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme; Teachers pensions; and HSC pensions. The current contract ends on 30.9.2017 and OHS are seeking to secure a new contract for the provision of an independent specialist medical assessment service from 1.10.2017.
Estimated Value: The figure indicated in II.1.5 represents the upper limit of an estimated contract value which ranges from 1 150 000 GBP to 1 725 000 GBP. This range reflects the potential scale of the contract and takes into account such changes to the scope/and or scale which may result from future operational requirements..
Contract Monitoring. The successful contractor’s performance on the contract will be regularly monitored.. Contractors not delivering on contract requirements is a serious matter. It means the public purse is not getting what it is. paying for. If a contractor fails to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance they will be given a specified time to. improve. If, after the specified time, they still fail to reach satisfactory levels of contract performance, the matter will be. escalated to senior management in CPD for further action. If this occurs and their performance still does not improve to. satisfactory levels within the specified period, it may be regarded as an act of grave professional misconduct and they may. be issued with a Certificate of Unsatisfactory Performance and the contract may be terminated. The issue of a Certificate. of Unsatisfactory Performance will result in the contractor being. excluded from all procurement competitions being undertaken by Centres of Procurement Expertise on behalf of bodies. covered by the Northern Ireland Procurement Policy for a period of twelve months from the date of issue of the certificate.” The Authority expressly reserves the rights:. (I).not to award any contract as a result of the procurement process commenced by publication of this notice; (II).to make whatever changes it may see fit to the content and structure of the tendering Competition; and in no circumstances will the Authority be liable for any costs incurred by candidates..
CPD will comply with the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and, where appropriate, will incorporate a standstill period (i.e. a minimum of 10 calendar days) at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. This provides time for unsuccessful tenderers to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into.


Award value: 1725000