Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-29
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 33155000 | 85100000: Health services
Submission deadline: 2018-07-25
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: A local framework is being set up for the provision of 20 beds across Leicester and Leicestershire to support assessment and reablement for people who have ongoing assessment needs (Discharge to Assess).
The lead Commissioning Organisation for this procurement is NHS West Leicestershire Clinical Commissioning (CCG) on behalf of Leicester City CCG and East Leicestershire and Rutland CCG.
A local framework is being set up for the provision of 20 beds across Leicester and Leicestershire to support assessment and reablement for people who have ongoing assessment needs (Discharge to Assess).
To gain access to the framework, Midlands and Lancashire CSU (MLCSU) are carrying out a procurement exercise through a “pseudo-open” Tender process on behalf of the Commissioners.
The key objective of this procurement process is to ensure that the successful service provider can meet the service specification and is able to facilitate the transfer of patients from an acute or community in-patient setting to enable assessment and reablement to be completed in a more appropriate environment.
The service is to be provided 20 reablement and discharge to assess beds for provision of a nursing level care home environment that is suitable for older people (who may have mild to severe cognitive issues in either Leicester City or Leicestershire County and will accept referrals for people who are medically stable but are not yet able to return straight home following their hospital in-patient stay. People who can return home with support directly after the hospital stay will follow Pathway 2 (Home first with reablement services).
Providers are to work with the person, family, therapists and health and social care case managers to agree an assessment and discharge plan and become part of the MDT so there is a requirement for providers to supply an office environment for therapy and case managers to work from daily alongside the care staff.
Each care facility will provide between 1 and 2 beds at any given time that the Commissioners chose to call upon a framework contracted provider, i.e. each successful framework contracted provider will be asked to reserve between 1 and 2 beds for this service.
This procurement is for healthcare clinical services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (“Regulations”). Accordingly, the Contracting Authorities are only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7. The Contracting Authorities are not voluntarily following any other part of the Regulations.
The procedure which the contracting authorities are following is set out in the MOI and ITT. As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (Nº 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.
1) register on the portal webpage at https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk (registration and use of the website is free of charge);
3) once you have expressed your interest, please access the My ITTs page, where you can view all the documentation (and download if required) and construct your reply in the bravo online questionnaire, as instructed. The deadline will be detailed in the tender documentation.
For technical support in submitting your Expression of Interest or registering on the “Bravo Solution” Electronic Sourcing system please contact the Bravo Solution helpdesk via Tel: 0800 069 8630 or email: help@bravosolution.co.uk
All communications from Bidders (including their Bidder Members) during the period of the Procurement must be directed to MLCSU via the “messaging” area within the ML CSU Bravo online procurement portal at: https://mlcsu.bravosolution.co.uk
Strictly no other forms of communication to MLCSU or the Commissioners will be accepted (including telephone calls, postal queries / submissions, faxes or email communications) during this period.