Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-07-19
Buyer: The Council of the City of Wakefield
Country: UK
Region: Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85120000: Medical practice services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85300000
Estimated value: 2598000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-09-09

Technical requirements: Wakefield Council is reshaping the provision of services to improve health and wellbeing in the district, by procuring a social wellbeing service. The Service will have two key priorities; to increase health and wellbeing and promote self-management.
The Service will deliver the following direct measurable outcomes to improve health and wellbeing in the local population as a whole:
— Knowledge and uptake of services to increase wellbeing, self-management and independence is increased.
— People stay independent for longer due to increased access to information and better coordinated services.
Wakefield Council is reshaping the provision of services to improve health and wellbeing of the district, by procuring a social wellbeing service (the ‘Service’). The Service will have two key priorities; to increase health and wellbeing and promote self-management. One Service Provider will be appointed to deliver the Service through a single contract and must demonstrate within their tender return how they will structure the Service to meet the outcomes outlined in the specification.
The Service will commence on 1.4.2017 and will be put in place for 4 (four) years; therefore the expiry date will be 31 March 2021. The Council may extend the Contract by up to 24 months, making the final possible expiry date 31.3.2023.
Further information of the award criteria applicable to this process is available in the tender documents which can be accessed via the YORtender website www.yortender.co.uk with reference A7QE-62JB3N.
Full and unrestricted access to the procurement documents is available via the YORtender website www.yortender.co.uk with reference A7QE-62JB3N. For support with registration on the YORtender website or if you are having difficulties accessing the procurement documents through YORtender, please contact the YORtender helpdesk on 01670 597136 or email yorkshiresupport@due-north.com
The successful service provider may be required to participate in the achievement of community wellbeing and positive outcomes for its customers as well as promotion and achievement of social and economic growth and environmental and sustainability policy objectives where this is required by the Contracting Authority in the contract documentation.
Conditions for opening tenders; representatives of legal and democratic services, any Member of the Council who so wishes may be present at the opening. Internal Audit also has the right to attend any tender opening. Where external agencies contribute to the overall funding of a project, representatives of the agency may also attend at the opening of tenders and be allowed to make note of the tenders and receive a copy of the subsequent written report on the tenders received, provided that such persons agree to observe commercial confidentiality and be bound by the confidentiality requirements of the Local Government Act 1972, as amended.
The Council will incorporate a minimum 10 calendar day standstill period at the point when information on the award of the contract is communicated to tenderers. If an appeal regarding the award of a contract has not been successfully resolved the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 (SI 2015/102) 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).


Award value: 2598000