Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-05-05
Buyer: NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 71621000
Submission deadline: 2018-06-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership, hosted by Velindre NHS Trust are acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board who are seeking to establish a contract for a Partner to Keep Our Patients Safe and Well Next Winter.
To Keep Patients Safe and Well Next Winter, the Cardiff and Vale University Health Board are committed to accelerating the transformation of their unscheduled care system in line with their strategy: Shaping our Future Wellbeing.
To achieve these ambitions, the Health Board are looking to work with a partner with a proven track record of supporting integrated health organisations successfully deliver sustained transformational improvement in the unscheduled care domain. The partnership will help the Health Board understand how they have delivered their successful approach and how this knowledge and best practice can be utilised, localised and incorporated into the winter planning process aligned with the strategic direction.
1. support the early delivery of whole system improvements in patient flow and capacity management in order to address near term challenges and develop long term resilience to variation in demand;
2. support, enhance and expand the current service improvement and development programme to increase the capacity and capability to deliver transformational change and continuous improvement across all sectors of care;
3. support the UHB’s informatics department in providing the information and quantitative service improvement tools, either directly through the existing IBM Business Intelligence Platform or via a secondary platform, which acquires data directly from the extensive intelligence warehouse, to support this transformation programme.
There will be an option to extend at the Health Board’s sole discretion for up to an additional 9 months.
1. the Contracting Authority reserves the right to award the contract in whole, in part or annul the tendering process and not award any contract;
2. bidders should note that they will be required to enter into terms and conditions of contract as set out in the ITT and that save for matters of clarification or consistency the Contracting Authority will not negotiate the terms;
5. all tender costs and liabilities incurred by bidders shall be the sole responsibility of the bidders;
6. the Health Board is using the e-tenderwales website, please access itt_67914 for the tender documents;
7. prospective suppliers should note that NHS Shared Services Partnership — Procurement Services is acting on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board.
Note: The Authority is using eTenderwales to carry out this procurement process. To obtain further information record your interest on Sell2Wales at https://www.sell2wales.gov.wales/search/search_switch.aspx?ID=81503
NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership on behalf of Cardiff and Vale University Local Health Board will allow a minimum 10 calendar days standstill period between notifying the award decision and awarding the contract.
Unsuccessful tenderers and applicants are entitled to receive reasons for the decision, including the characteristics and relative advantages of the winning bid and the reasons why the tenderer / applicant was unsuccessful. Should additional information be required it should be requested of the addressee in Section I.1. Aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by breach of the procurement rules have the right to take action in the High Court (England and Wales). Any such action is subject to strict time-limits in accordance with the Public Contracts (Amendments) Regulations 2015.