Public procurement notice: Prior Information Notice Without Call For Competition
Published: 2016-06-22
Buyer: Hertfordshire County Council
Country: UK
Region: Hertfordshire
Contract type: Services
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85144100 | 85311000 | 85312500

Technical requirements: Hertfordshire County Council (the Council) is carrying out pre-procurement market engagement for the Integrated Rehabilitation Beds project.
The Council and the 2 Hertfordshire CCG commission a range of care home beds providing a level of rehabilitation. These include Intermediate care, Enablement, Non weight-bearing, step down and discharge to assess. The Council and the CCGs have agreed a jointly funded tender for a new model to incorporate all these models into a single flexible bed type to be called Integrated Rehabilitation Beds.
The scope of the project is to replace the several current bed types, allowing the level of rehabilitation to flex as each individual's needs develop. Person focused planning will allow timely completion of rehabilitation required within the beds, to allow prompt move onto the best destination for the individual.
The current provision is in the region of 120 beds with a spend in excess of 5 000 000 GBP per annum.
The Council are considering that potential providers will be required to deliver a single cost per bed, including additional therapy input and support from GP practices. Beds should be in groups of at least 8-10 to allow a core team skilled and focused on rehabilitation planning and delivers.
It is currently anticipated that the Council will commence a procurement process in August 2016 with the new service commencing on 1.4.2017.
The purpose of the Council's pre-procurement market engagement process is to allow and enable, potentially interested organisations with appropriate expertise and relevant experience to:
— Outline and generate initial views/ideas around the outcomes, scope and the potential procurement strategy (i.e. with no commitment to themselves or the Council);
This stage of the project allows the Council to understand the strengths and weaknesses of options and/or solutions available to deliver its outcomes. Furthermore, this process enables organisations to effectively plan for any potential forthcoming procurement.
Hertfordshire County Council has worked closely with its Districts and Partners to create a joint procurement portal called Supply Hertfordshire. This portal provides an eTendering system which is run by In-Tend. To access the Pre-Procurement Market Engagement information document please visit: www.supplyhertfordshire.uk and follow the on-screen guidance.
The pre-procurement market engagement will comprise of 2 pre-procurement events. These will take place as follows:
Please note that attendance requests for the events (which should be no more than 2 representatives from each organization to 1 event only) must be received by Midday, 29.6.2016 by Projects.BST@hertfordshire.gov.uk
Please ensure you quote ‘PPME — Integrated Rehabilitation Beds’ as the subject reference within your email request.
If you are experiencing problems In-Tend offer a help section which includes a dedicated UK Support Desk which can be contacted via email: support@in-tend.com or telephone. +44 (0)114 407 0065 for any website / technical queries. Monday to Friday, 8:30-17:30.
For the avoidance of doubt, this stage of the project is not part of a formal procurement process and the Council is not committing, at this stage to carrying out such a process. Participation or non-participation in this pre-procurement market engagement shall not prevent any provider participating in a potential procurement process nor is it intended that any information supplied shall place any provider at an advantage in any forthcoming procurement process.