Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-05-07
Buyer: West Sussex County Council
Country: UK
Region: Surrey, East and West Sussex
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85000000 | 85100000: Health services | 85140000: Miscellaneous health services | 85300000 | 85312300
Estimated value: 475000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-06-06

Technical requirements: The West Sussex contract is for the provision of an Employee Assistance Programme to the Council and its potential partners of the contract.
The Council requires Service Provider to provide a 24 hour, 7 days a week, 365 days a year confidential telephone helpline for employees and provide a management support line during normal business hours of 9:00 to 17:00.
The Service Provider will provide face to face counselling as a result of the initial contact at a suitable location to the employee.
This procurement is being managed by Capita Business Services Limited (‘Capita’) on behalf of the Council under a Strategic Services Outsource. The contract between the Council and Capita provides for tenders and all other information submitted to be treated as confidential by Capita to ensure competition is maintained, value for money is achieved and all bidders are treated equally and in a non-discriminatory way during the tendering and contract award procedures. The Council and Capita shall maintain a system of management processes, barriers, disciplines and confidentiality undertakings to ensure there is no conflict of interest in the procurement process and to prevent any disclosure to any Capita employee involved in submitting a tender for this procurement of any confidential information from other bidders. Information submitted by bidders will not be used by Capita for any other purpose than the provision of services to the Council under the Strategic Services Outsource.
West Sussex County Council is a Public Authority within the meaning of the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and all correspondence received will be dealt with in accordance with the Act.
A bidder briefing event is taking place on the Tuesday 17.5.2016, further details can be found in the tender documentation. This will provide details on:
Bidders wishing to attend this event should send a correspondence through the project on InTend providing the names of those attending. Should you have any questions, please use the correspondence facility of InTend.
— Browse to the eSourcing portal: https://in-tendhost.co.uk/sesharedservices/aspx/Home and click the link to register.
2. Enter your correct business and user details ensuring you complete all mandatory fields marked in yellow;
8. When searching for opportunities within West Sussex please remember to check both options of WSCC to ensure nothing is missed;
9. There will be an ‘express an interest button’ please click this and your interest will be registered with us;
If you require any further assistance consult the online help, or contact the eSourcing portal help desk. The Contracting Authority intends to use the West Sussex eSourcing portal in this procurement exercise.

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