Public procurement notice: Contract Notice
Published: 2016-11-22
Buyer: Newcastle upon Tyne City Council
Country: UK
Region: Tyneside
Contract type: Services
Procedure: Open procedure
CPV classification: 85100000: Health services | 85141200: Services provided by nurses | 85141220 | 85323000
Estimated value:  GBP
Submission deadline: 2016-12-23
Award criteria: The most economic tender

Technical requirements: Newcastle City Council is undertaking a procurement to appoint a service provider to deliver a Newcastle Harm Reduction Service. The Service will provide a range of harm reduction advice and information activities, access to sterile equipment, coordination of needle exchange, nursing advice and wound care, assertive outreach and sector wide training.
The contracting Authority reserves the right to require deposits guarantees, bonds insurance or any other form of appropriate security. Details to be provided in the Invitation to Tender.
Where a consortium or other grouping of suppliers submits a bid, such a consortia or grouping must nominate a lead organisation to deal with NCC on all matters relating to the Agreement. All consortium or grouping members will however be required to be jointly and severally liable in respect of the obligations and liabilities relating to the Agreement.
All applicants are required to complete and return a detailed pre-qualification questionnaire prepared by the Contracting Authority and provide such supporting evidence as may be requested by the deadline stated in IV.3.4).
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The contract covers Social and/or Other Specific Services and therefore those provisions of the PCR 2015 that are relevant to such services shall apply.
Under this procurement, the contractor is required to participate actively in the economic and social regeneration of the locality of and surroundings of the place of delivery for the procurement. Contract performance conditions may therefore relate in particular to social and environmental considerations.
The Public Contracts Regulations 2015 provide 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).

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