Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2019-05-06
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU on behalf of NHS South Worcestershire, NHS Redditch and Bromsgrove and NHS Wyre Forest Clinical Commissioning Groups
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85141200: Services provided by nurses
Estimated value: 6000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2019-05-30
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU on behalf of the named CCGs wish to invite prospective providers to express their interest in the tender for discharge to assess — 24-hour nursing step down.
The CCGs are looking to procure 24-hour nursing step down places (beds) from which pathway 3 services can be delivered. The core principle of this service is that discharge from acute care should not be delayed by the requirement to assess needs for further support.
The service provider will be expected to deliver a significant proportion of the expected activity within a single dedicated unit, located as near as possible to Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU on behalf of the named CCGs wish to invite prospective providers to express their interest in the tender for discharge to assess — 24-hour nursing step down.
The CCGs are looking to procure 24-hour nursing step down places (beds) from which pathway 3 services can be delivered. The core principle of this service is that discharge from acute care should not be delayed by the requirement to assess needs for further support.
Pathway 3 is intended to help those who are likely to need continuing 24-hour care and support to leave hospital earlier by arranging health and social care services and assessment to take place in a more suitable environment. This means hospital beds will be used by those who need hospital care, not by those undergoing on going assessments or making choices about their future. Moving assessment away from hospital offers a more relaxed and appropriate environment to enable informed long-term care decisions to be made.
— support timely hospital discharge so that people stay until their acute medical episode is finished and then move to a more appropriate location for assessment of their future care needs,
— provide an environment which helps people meet their rehabilitation and reablement potential to become as functionally independent as possible,
— maximise peoples’ capacity for independent living, increase the number of people able to remain living at home and reduce the number of people permanently admitted to long term care,
The care provider must be able to provide a care environment and competent nursing and care workforce which can sustain and clinically manage the needs of this group of clients and avoid unnecessary readmission to secondary care.
The service provider will be required to work collaboratively with existing providers as part of an integrated,evidence based approach to patient care.
The CCG anticipates that this contract will be awarded to one service provider or a lead provider on behalf of a consortium.
The successful provider will be required to sign the NHS Standard Contract for the service and accept all terms and conditions.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: 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;

Eligibility requirements: Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if the requirements are met: 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/

Award value: 6000000