Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2017-07-19
Buyer: NHS Midlands and Lancashire CSU
Country: UK
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services
Estimated value: 5250000 GBP
Submission deadline: 2017-08-18
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: NHS Halton CCG has a requirement for a Community COPD Service. Operating across Halton, the Community COPD Service will provide home (including residential & nursing homes) and community based care. The service must be able to deliver:
— Patient centred care which allows patients with COPD to be more independent, taking more responsibility for their own care and quality of life.
— Seamless care and support to patients and their carers through close working arrangements with social care and 3rd sector providers
— A ‘shift of care’ into the community, working primarily with general practice as part of a multi-disciplinary team designed around, and for, the patient and carer
The Community COPD Service will also be required to make a significant contribution to NHS Halton CCG's plans to reduce non-elective admissions, to effectively manage prescribing costs and to improve the management of patients with COPD in primary care.
The contract will be awarded for an initial 5-year period with the potential to extend for a further 1 x 2-year period. The annual value of the contract is set at £750,000.
This procurement is for Social and other specific services which are Light Touch Regime services for the purpose of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 as specified in Schedule 3 of the Regulations (‘Regulations’) http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/schedule/3/made
Accordingly, the Contracting Authority is only bound by those parts of the Regulations detailed in Chapter 3 Particular Procurement Regimes Section 7 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/102/part/2/chapter/3/made
As the CCG is a relevant body for the purpose of the National Health Service (Procurement, Patient Choice and Competition) (No 2) Regulations 2013 these Regulations also apply to this procurement.
Right to Cancel: The Contracting Authority reserves the right to discontinue the procurement process at any time, which shall include the right not to award a contract or contracts, and does not bind itself to accept the lowest tender, or any tender received, and reserves the right to award a contract in part, or to call for new tenders should it consider this necessary.
The Contracting Authority shall not be liable for any costs or expenses incurred by any candidate or tenderer in connection with the completion and return of the information requested in this Contract Notice, or in the completion or submission of any tender, irrespective of the outcome of the competition or if the competition is cancelled or postponed.
All dates, time periods and values specified in this notice are provisional and the Contracting Authority reserves the right to change these.
Transparency: The Contracting Authority is subject to the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA) and the Environmental Information Regulations 2004 (EIR) and may be required to disclose information received in the course of this procurement under FOIA or the EIR.
In addition, and in accordance with the UK Government's policies on transparency, the contracting authority intends to publish procurement documentation and the text of any resulting contractual arrangements, subject to possible redactions at the discretion of the Contracting Authority.
Any redactions, whether in relation to information requests under FOIA, the EIR or policies on transparency will be in accordance with those grounds prescribed under the Freedom of Information Act. If and when this requirement is offered to tender, this will be done via electronic means using the internet. Midlands and Lancashire CSU is conducting this procurement exercise as a central purchasing body for another NHS body with whom the successful bidder(s) will enter into contracts for the supply of the services.


Award value: 5250000