Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-06-16
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000
Submission deadline: 2017-07-11
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Nursing and Care services for a 4-bedded unit for people with Learning Disabilities and/or Autism with behaviours that challenge.
The Commissioner wishes to receive responses to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) from suitably qualified and experienced providers who can deliver Assessment and Treatment for people with Learning Disabilities and or Autism, whose behaviours may challenge.
Aim of the service is to provide 24/7 365 days per year, specialist assessment, treatment and support for people with LD and or autism whose behaviours challenge.
The local vision is that Service Users with Learning Disabilities / Autism with behaviours that may challenge shall be supported to have improved and meaningful lives.
NHS Telford and Wrekin CCG Further details as stated in the contract and service specification together with the ITT documentation.
The Commissioner wishes to receive responses to the Invitation to Tender (ITT) from suitably qualified and experienced providers who can deliver Assessment and Treatment for people with Learning Disabilities and or Autism, whose behaviours may challenge.
Aim of the service is to provide 24/7 365 days per year, specialist assessment, treatment and support for people with LD and or autism whose behaviours challenge.
The local vision is that Service Users with Learning Disabilities / Autism with behaviours that may challenge shall be supported to have improved and meaningful lives in line with ‘Building the Right Support (NHSE, 2015). The Community Based Care Service is to have a local 4-bedded unit to support the Service Users. This unit shall support 2 Service Users with long term needs who require support and interventions to stay safe in the community; 1 step-down bed from secure and or locked services and 1 bed for emergency short term assessment and treatment. This small unit shall work in an individual person centred manner. Each Service User shall have their own individualised care plan.
Telford and Wrekin CCG is seeking a provider for the care, assessment and treatment of people in this unit. Please note that the premises for this Service are already in place.
The contract duration is for an initial period of 3 years, with an option to extend for a period of a further 2 years subject to the Commissioner’s discretion.
NHS Telford and Wrekin CCG Fixed Financial Budget is 444 000 GBP per annum (404 000 GBP fixed and 40 000 GBP variable subject to achievement of KPIs).
Please use the following Tender Reference on all future communications: ITT Ref: 463. This procurement is for 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 Invitation to Tender (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. The contracting authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary. The contracting authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed. All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the contracting authority reserves the right to change these. The contracting authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR. In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the contracting authority. Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency shall be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act (2000) and the Environmental Information Regulations (2004). Further information relating to transparency can be found at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/procurement-and contracting-transparency-requirements-guidance