Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-08-24
Buyer: NHS Bristol CCG
Country: UK
Region: Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Bristol/Bath area
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85141000: Services provided by medical personnel | 85323000
Estimated value: 1958719 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-09-19
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Bristol CCG — Provision of Children‘s Community Health Services within the Bristol and South Gloucestershire areas — Paediatric Primary Care Clinical Support Service (PPCCSS).
This procurement is being managed by the NHS South, Central and West Commissioning Support Unit (SCW CSU) Clinical Procurement team on behalf of the following Commissioners:
Bristol and South Gloucestershire's Paediatric Primary Care Clinical Support Service (PPCCSS) will be required to deliver care that is evidence based and clinically safe, effective and efficient, and consistent with national and local policy, clinical guidelines and NHS Standards.
To provide a Paediatric Primary Care Clinical Support Service for children, encompassing assessment, treatment, onward referral and discharge;
To ensure that children are treated in the most appropriate setting, through triage of referrals to general and specialist paediatric services;
To provide advice and feedback to GPs and primary care professionals to improve their working knowledge of paediatrics;
To improve the working relationship between primary and secondary care through improved access to evidence based practice, research and development.
— Strive to become an integrated part of the primary health care teams focussed around GP Practices through regular face-to-face discussions with GPs and other members of the primary care health team;
— Actively engage in communication with Bristol Children's Hospital and other acute and community health services.
The contract will be based on a 5 year period with the option to extend by a further 2 years. The annual contract value is 279 817 GBP per annum.
The commissioners will accept no liability for any additional costs incurred by bidders associated with VAT, which is not already included in the bid price.
Parent company and other guarantees may be required in certain circumstances, see the invitation to tender for further details.
The Services are healthcare services within the meaning and scope of Annex XIV of Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council (the Directive) and Schedule 3 to the Public Contract Regulations 2015 (the Regulations). The tendering process will be conducted in accordance with the requirements and flexibilities provided by Articles 74 to 76 of the Directive, and Regulations 74 to 76 of the Regulations. The Authority will run a transparent tender process, treating all bidders equally. For the avoidance of doubt, the Authority will not be bound by the Regulations or the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union or any other regulations or legislation except for the specific parts or circumstances that apply to the procurement of these Services.
Neither the inclusion of a bidder selection stage, nor the use of any language or terms found in the Directive or Regulations, nor the description of the procedure voluntarily adopted by the Authority (Open, Restricted, Competitive Procedure with Negotiation, Competitive Dialogue or any other description), nor any other indication, shall be taken to mean that the Authority intends to hold itself bound by the Directive or Regulations, save by the provisions applicable to services coming within the scope of Annex XIV of the Directive / Schedule 3 of the Regulations. The services are healthcare services falling within Schedule 3 to the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (the Regulations) which are not subject to the full regime of the Regulations, but is instead governed by the Light Touch Regime contained within Chapter 3, Section 7 of the Regulations (Regulations 74 to 77).
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