Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-04-19
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Region: Shropshire and Staffordshire
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85140000: Miscellaneous health services
Submission deadline: 2016-05-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Shropshire Clinical Commissioning Group invites tenders for the above service. The Commissioner is seeking a Provider / Providers able to deliver a service which can meet the health needs of the local populations of Shropshire CCG.
The Commissioner wishes to receive responses to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) from suitably qualified and experienced Pain Management providers with the necessary capacity and capability (or a demonstrable ability to provide the necessary capacity and capability) to provide a Community Pain Management Service.
— provide access to a range of disciplines and interventions that can deal with the physical, psychological and social needs of service users with chronic pain;
— provide a service which ensures that patient needs can be met within community settings wherever clinically appropriate reducing the need for secondary care intervention;
All of the above should be provided within the geographical boundaries of Shropshire unless stated otherwise.
The contract will be for an initial period of 3 years with the option to extend for up to a further 12 months.
Candidates wishing to be considered must register their interest and provide additional procurement specific information (by submitting an ITT though the Bravo Electronic Sourcing system as follows:
1) Candidates should register on the portal https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge).
3) Once you have expressed your interest, access the My ITTs page, where you can download documentation (if required) and construct your reply, as instructed. You must submit your reply on the website by no later than 17:00 on 19.5.2016.
For technical support in submitting your Expression of Interest or registering on the ‘Bravo Solution’ Electronic Sourcing system please contact the Bravo Solution help desk via tel: 0800 368 4850, or e-mail: help@bravosolution.co.uk
Should you have any procurement related queries please contact Lisa Parker, Senior Procurement Officer, Midlands and Lancashire CSU via email: lparker1@nhs.net or mobile: 07701 293729.
Parent company or other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances. See the invitation to offer for further details.
The Authority reserves the right to require groupings of economic operators to take a particular legal form or to require a single economic operator to take primary liability for a contract to be performed by a group of economic operators or to require each party to undertake joint and several liability in respect of the entire contract irrespective of the form the grouping takes.
Information and formalities necessary for evaluating if 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 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 judgment 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/EEC of 10.6.1991 on prevention of the use of the financial system for the purpose of money laundering. The following may be requested in assessing potential bidders' economic and financial capacity: (a) appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance, (b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established, (c) a statement of overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last 2 financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available. Please refer to the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and/or Memorandum of Information for specific requirements. NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, complete procurement specific information in the form of an Invitation to Tender response (ITT) available at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Failure to respond to the ITT as required will result in an incomplete expression of interest. Please refer to Section VI.3) below for additional information.
The following may be requested in assessing potential bidders' economic and financial capacity: (a) appropriate statements from banks or, where appropriate, evidence of relevant professional risk indemnity insurance, (b) the presentation of balance-sheets or extracts from the balance-sheets, where publication of the balance-sheet is required under the law of the country in which the economic operator is established, (c) a statement of overall turnover and, where appropriate, of turnover in the area covered by the contract for a maximum of the last 2 financial years available, depending on the date on which the undertaking was set up or the economic operator started trading, as far as the information on these turnovers is available. Please refer to the Pre-Qualification Questionnaire and/or Memorandum of Information for specific requirements.
NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU requires that potential bidders, in submitting their expression of interest, complete procurement specific information in the form of an Invitation to Tender response (ITT) available at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk Failure to respond to the ITT as required will result in an incomplete expression of interest. Please refer to Section VI.3) below for additional information.