Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2018-06-06
Buyer: Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust on behalf of NHS Commercial Solutions
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 70000000 | 70120000 | 71312000: Structural engineering consultancy services | 71315200 | 71315300
Estimated value: 100000000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2018-07-04
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS Commercial Solutions is seeking to procure, through a framework agreement, a panel of suitably experienced and qualified consultants to provide expert guidance to NHS and, potentially, other public sector organisations, in the field of property and estates strategy development and management. Specifically included are property appraisals (6 facet surveys).
The Framework Agreement will be available to all organisations detailed in Section VI.3) of this Contract Notice(each, a “Participating Authority”).
The purpose of this is to facilitate the delivery of one or more of the 6 facet surveys identified in the “Land and property appraisal” guidance document developed from Estatecode. This lot is divided into 7 sublots, the first 6 of which each align to the above mentioned facet surveys, as follows:
This lot is intended to enable the provision of expert consultancy support to NHS organisations in developing strategies to deliver the recommendations of the NHS Property and Estates report (April 2017).
The public sector bodies to whom the use of this framework agreement will be open include, in particular, thefollowing in the United Kingdom and their respective statutory successors and organisations created as a result of re-organisations or organisational changes, and any private sector entities having similar procurement needs.
— National Health Service (NHS) bodies in England, including acute Trusts (including those operating community hospitals and the provider functions of the former Primary Care Trusts), Care Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, Ambulance Trusts, any of which may be an NHS Foundation Trust, and Clinical Support Units (CSU's), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG's), General Practitioners and General Practitioner commissioning consortia, Special Health Authorities and Area Teams (See http://www.nhs.uk/ServiceDirectories/Pages/NHSTrustListing.aspx),
— Health Boards, NHS Trusts, Community Health Councils and other constituent bodies of the NHS in Wales(http://www.wales.nhs.uk/nhswalesaboutus/structure),
— NHS Scotland and its constituent bodies including: the Scottish Ambulance Service, Special NHS Boards and the other constituent organisations of the Scottish National Health Service (http://www.scot.nhs.uk/organisations/),
— Health and Social Care Trusts, Health Agencies and other constituent bodies of the Health and Social CareService in Northern Ireland (http://online.hscni.net/),
The Contracting Authority will incorporate a voluntary standstill period at the point information on the award of the contract is communicated to bidders. That notification will provide full information on the award decision. The standstill period, which will be for a minimum of 10 calendar days, provides time for unsuccessful.
Bidders to challenge the award decision before the contract is entered into. The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide for aggrieved parties who have been harmed or are at risk of harm by a breach of the rules to take action in the High Court (England, Wales and Northern Ireland).

Eligibility requirements: As described in the invitation to tender documentation.

Award value: 100000000