Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-03-08
Buyer: Westminster City Council
Country: UK
Region: Inner London - West
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85323000
Estimated value: 19006524 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-04-05
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: The Services under the Framework Agreement are covered by Schedule 3 (Social and Other Specific Services) under the Public Contracts Regulations 2015, known as the ‘light touch regime.
Westminster City Council (WCC) as lead authority intends to undertake a competitive tendering procurement on behalf of itself, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (H&F) and the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) for the provision of a School Health Service Framework Agreement. The procurement exercise aims to award three call off contracts under the Framework Agreement, one for each borough. The services commissioned will improve the health and well-being and reduce the health inequalities of children and young people who attend state schools in the three boroughs by: — Leading and providing a range of services including statutory services such as the National Child Measurement Programme (NCMP), Relationships and Sex Education and contributing to Education and Healthcare Plans (EHC) for children with Special Educational Needs (SEN). — Contributing, co-ordinating and facilitating access to a range of services such as: parent/carers and school staff health information and advice; Family Healthy Weight services; Sexual Health Services. — Enabling, connecting and improving access to services by building relationships and partnerships with GPs, Health Visitors, social care workers and other relevant local players. The estimated value range of the contracts covers the entire possible 5 year contract period for all three boroughs.
Option for the contracting authority at its absolute discretion to extend the period of the framework from 3 years by a period or periods of up to 2 years in aggregate.
Parent company guarantees, deposits, bonds or other forms of appropriate security may be required for the Contract and Framework Agreement. Please refer to tender.
Joint and several liability. Should the successful tenderer be a consortium of companies, the lead partner will be responsible for completing the commission on behalf of the consortium and all payments will be made to the lead partner for services rendered by the consortium. Support partners will be required to complete a collateral warranty agreement in favour of the Contracting Authority. Please refer to tender documents.
This tendering exercise is being undertaken using the electronic tendering system ‘capitalESourcing’ (url: www.capitalesourcing.com). Suppliers will need to register an interest on the system in order to participate, and registration is free.
Regulation 27 of the Regulations. Services of the nature of those covered by this procurement are designated as ‘Schedule 3’ Services (the Social and Other Specific Services) under the Regulations and as such are not subject to the full requirements
of the Regulations. The contracting authority is only bound by the application of the Regulations to the extent that they are applicable to Schedule 3 services. The procurement is covered by Regulations 74 to 76 (the Light Touch Regime).

Eligibility requirements: Please refer to tender documents. Please refer to tender documents. Please refer to tender documents. Please refer to tender documents.
Please refer to tender documents. Please refer to tender documents.
Please refer to tender documents.